As previously mentioned Dad worked in the Weights and Measures Department. One of his jobs involved making sure every new weighing Scales and measuring equipment worked correctly, and to this end there was several rooms in the department full of all kinds of scales, measures and all kinds of equipment. Occasionally some more exotic things came in and one was some type of camera that took colour photographs in the 1950's Dad took one picture with this camera but unfortunately the negative was some unusual format and it wasnt until recent years that Mum re found the negative and brought it to an ' Expert' shop in town. The expert could only print on to photographic paper and it still didnt look in colour. At the time 2000 I only had a scanner that didnt take slides or negatives. Scanning in negatives needs a light source on both sides of the neg. So I put the neg on the scanner and then put white paper on top and then took a table lamp to illuminate the neg and did a scan. Eventually after doing a bit of tweaking in 'Photoshop', Mums face began to appear in full colour. Mum or anyone else hadnt seen the photo before. I printed it off and Mum was delighted to see herself again from 1956. We have it in a nice frame in the Dining Room. Here is the long lost photograph thanks to a mixture of modenr technology, old technology and a little help from ''Heath Robinson School of improvisation"
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