J Perkins shop , Worcester
Good day sir,
I came across your wonderful article by Gawie Hugo regarding the shop in Worcester run by Mr. J. Perkins
I conduct a photo collection of bygone Worcester on Flickr here; https://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N07/albums/72157600935702209 and would also love to use the photo of the shop in Gawie's article in my collection. Could you please give me permission or alternatively put me in touch with Mr Hugo?
Your favourable attention would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Etienne du Plessis.
Hi Etienne,
Many thanks for your kind words and for contacting us to ask permission.
I have emailed Gawie and you separately. I hope that you will receive a favourable response.
Thanks Steve..............
Cheers,
E.
Photos are a big part of this postal history site and are often worked into philatelic displays. I am really busy right now but had a quick skwizz at your flickr site and am very impressed. You have some amazing images which remind me a lot of my time growing up in Pinelands, Cape Town and holidaying at my aunt's hotel in Ceres. I will return for a longer look when I have more time.
BTW, I was playing cricket on Julianaveld, Pinelands, in the early 60s when a SAAF Ventura crashed there on take-off from Ysterplaat. See;
https://southafricanphilatelyclub.com/forum/topic/consolidated-catalina-aircraft-in-south-african-waters-ww2
Thanks for that reply Steve,
I would like to include your vivid description of those happenings at the Julianaveld in my Flickr posting of that event, if you don't mind.
Here is a colour shot of the crash probably taken the next day.
Bye for now,
Etienne.
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My pleasure, Etienne. Please use it. I remember it like yesterday - 64 years ago!
At a SACS (South African Collectors's Society) meeting in Meriden I was talking to our President, the late Squadron Leader John Shaw MBE who used to fly RAF Vulcan bombers during the Cold War. I told him that my father had been a Navigator in the RAF during WW2, the first officer in our family. John expressed a real interest. He was easy to talk to and is fondly rembered as a philatelist for always being willing to help and encourage newcomers. I was telling John about living in Pinelands under the flight path of the Ysterplaat AFB when Brian Trotter, esteemed postal historian, author and past President of the Royal Philatelic Society, London, walked past. Brian waited until I had finished talking to John, then came over and told me that he had overheard my conversation with John about Ysterplaat AFB. He said, much to my surprise, that he had grown up on Ysterplaat AFB where his father had been stationed as a pilot on Shackletons, I think. I remember those huge long-range maritime workhorses very clearly. They were a development of the Lancaster bomber on which my father had flown during WW2. As I write this I wonder what his thoughts must have been every time thoses planes came overhead with their Merlin (?) engines throbbing. My Dad survived two crashes on landing. Like many ex-RAF aircrew he had problems with his back for the rest of his life.