{"id":9402,"date":"2019-11-10T16:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2024-02-24T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:21:11","slug":"david-newbitts-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/david-newbitts-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"David Newbitt&#8217;s Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Newbitt_Mid-1960s-on-a-Pedalo-boom.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Newbitt_Mid-1960s-on-a-Pedalo-boom-1024x779.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9409\" width=\"377\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Newbitt_Mid-1960s-on-a-Pedalo-boom-1024x779.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Newbitt_Mid-1960s-on-a-Pedalo-boom-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Newbitt_Mid-1960s-on-a-Pedalo-boom-768x584.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Newbitt_Mid-1960s-on-a-Pedalo-boom.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>This is David, bravely operating a Pedalo boom<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David says &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8220;One of the great pleasures I have enjoyed since joining the Tech-Ops group has been  the opportunity to see so many photographs from the 60s &amp; 70s. Where they  include many faces I find typically I instantly identify a proportion of them,  add to the list with a lot of head scratching then fail badly with the  remainder. It is this last group that sends me off on Google hunts, the results  of which at times stir up synapses and have me realising that, after all, I do  have a recollection. &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One that has particularly engaged me recently is on   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-ops.co.uk\/page47.html\">http:\/\/www.tech-ops.co.uk\/page47.html<\/a> , a photo posted in 2002 by John Holmes, from 1962 (the year I joined  Tech Ops). It is a remarkable collection of the movers and shakers from the  Light Entertainment world of the era. John describes it as \u2018memorable\u2019 which if  anything is an understatement. He provides a list of the just short of 60  subjects across 7 rows (just a few with identity as ?)&nbsp; and it reads like  the Who\u2019s who of the era. I did however find dotting back and forth from photo to key had me losing the thread so I took the liberty of saving the photo to my  PC and annotating the individuals for easier analysis. Many of you will perhaps  not have re-visited the post for some time so I am attaching my effort for any  that care to do so now. &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many cases, even where I instantly recognised the face, I googled to get  a broader picture of the particular career. Robin Nash was one where the info  that came to light came as a complete surprise to me \u2013 he was apparently born  Robert Henry Douglas Drane but adopted the name Robin for some reason plus the  surname Nash which was his mother\u2019s maiden name. I gather her side of the family  had show-biz connections but whether that signified or not I didn\u2019t  discover. &nbsp; Just a small point \u2013 the key for 5th row shows three \u2018unidentified\u2019 between  Pauline Kay and Colin Farnell but It looks as though this should only be  two. &nbsp; So there we are, so many people whose contribution is undoubted \u2013 many of  them no longer with us but definitely not forgotten. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here is David&#8217;s update &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/John-Holmes-post-with-annotations..jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/John-Holmes-post-with-annotations.-1024x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/John-Holmes-post-with-annotations.-1024x430.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/John-Holmes-post-with-annotations.-300x126.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/John-Holmes-post-with-annotations.-768x322.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1061\" width=\"337\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall.jpg 348w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David says &#8211; &#8220;One of the great pleasures I have enjoyed since joining the Tech-Ops group has been the opportunity to see so many photographs from the 60s &amp; 70s. Where they include many faces I find typically I instantly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/david-newbitts-nostalgia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-pics","category-stories"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/bern333\/","display_name":"Bernard Newnham"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 10, 2019","modified":"Updated on February 24, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 10, 2019 4:09 pm","modified":"Updated on February 24, 2024 4:21 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9402\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}