Picture of the Week

I made the news this week - or rather one of my photos did. The image of the flower beds on the island at the southern end of Chalons Way was chosen as Ilkeston Advertiser's Picture of the Week. It also goes to show what good taste the visitors to Ilkeston Cam must have as over 90% of those who voted on the Latest Images page also chose the photo as their favourite. I still don't think of myself as a photographer but merely as a taker of snapshots who occasionally gets a good picture.

There was also a surprise in the same newspaper for an old black and white photo submitted by a reader for the Memory Lane spot showed a party of Charnos factory workers and their families on the platform of Trowell Station. The party was on its way to the Festival of Britain in 1951 and there in the middle of the photo is a man wearing a trilby hat with a little boy standing in front of him. That man was my Dad and the little boy, yours truly. My Mum who worked at Charnos must have been there too but I can't actually see her on the photo. It's somehow appropriate on this weekend when Fathers' Day is celebrated that the old picture is featured this week. It's also quite spooky - two photos with a personal link!