Thanks** - you've made a very good job of improving that photo, far better than I managed.

I was sure there was an uninvited occupant in it when I looked earlier, but I maybe have been mistaken . It looks better as it is anyway.

Now, Mr R S-S, do you reckon that the lurry parked to the side is the 1-ton Ford mentioned in the sale records? I am fairly sure its not the same one as the Coward's one parked outside the White Horse in your photograph.

Making photos darker etc is one thing, but removing stuff is really changing the past. Such as notices in the Mechanics Institute windows, and litter etc. The past is what it is.

I think photos should be just "enhanced" and left alone. It may not be a fault, it makes no difference anyway, best leave things alone.

A person of your experience should know the difference.

By "enhanced" I mean changing the contrast, brightess and gamma. Not removing parts of the images and adding your bits. Show some common sense here, for once.

This is a History site, removing parts of photographs and adding other bits from another time should not be done. As I said, for an example you removed posters from the Mechanics Institutes windows, why?

No I don't mean that, that is just his usual childish stuff, he has a relationship with Rodney that is best not mentioned.

He has "massaged" other pictures by removing items. He wanted to alter the photo above by changing it, just because there is a patch of white in the back. I am sorry as I said it's a History site, is it not easy to leave pictures as they are? Let's wait for the answer about the Mechanics Institute.

It may have been one of the B*nn*tts from Maynestone Road, Chinley who'd gone to do some surreptitious measuring up of the gateposts,ready for a midnight raid on them, but spotting a cameraman, decided to duck under a white cloth to avoid recognition, and to prevent, many years later, a conclusive solution being found to the mystery of the gateposts' ultimate fate!

I think there is a body in the back of the car! It does look like someoe did not want to be seen. If it is not a head then we need other ideas, there may be many but I do like the body one. Suppose it's a bit late to start an investigation.

Back to the gates. There is a sort of ridge below the top of the stone work that appears on all the photographs except the Errwood entrance. I would say the Errwood gates have gone, and will never be found again, which is a shame. Also all the other gates have exactly the same style of stones.  

Yes I know about that, you emailed me about it, don't you remember. I have not got round to changing it yet, so don't worry.