THEY are snaps which have evoked a lot of memories since we shared them on Derry Daily’s Facebook page over Christmas.
Cars parked in Shipquay Street in 1959 – taken by a long-forgotten Scottish photographer.
Well here’s another one (above) taken across the Foyle during the same trip. And there’s a few below from a time gone by in Donegal.
When the Scottish photographer Douglas Campbell died in 2007 at the age of 94, his son Duncan inherited his photographic collection.
This contained 35,000 colour slides, assembled over half a century, documenting his travels and observations.
By June 2012, Duncan had brilliantly digitized his fathers transparencies and made them available to the world via Flickr. This included two visits to Ireland by Douglas, his wife Kathleen and their children in 1958 and 1959 which you will find at http://www.flickr.com/
Enjoy. …and if you have old snaps you want to share, email them to [email protected] Include as much information as possible.
Horn Head, Co Donegal 1959
Bloody Foreland, Co Donegal
Derrybeg, Gweedore, 1959
Killybegs, Co Donegal, 1959
