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So a 77-year-old man named Nick turned up at the waste management facility in Lerwick, Shetland (affectionately known as 'the dump') recently with two bags containing around 5,000 old slides of old photos taken on "world travels"...
He said he wanted to get rid of them, as they had been "sitting in boxes for the last 30 years", but Paul at the dump was keen to see if there were any local photos in there. Eight hours later, over 200 were discovered, given a second life and digitised. Like this, of a walrus...
Nick, a former RSPB warden on the remote island of Fetlar, and an ex-assistant warden at the Fair Isle bird Observatory, said they were probably taken from the 70s onwards, and they give a insight into rural island life from decades ago...
The photos were added to a Shetland memories Facebook group, and have caught the interest of hundreds of folk. Read more about it on @Shetnews here https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2021/02/03/a-little-bit-of-treasure-saved-from-the-dump-as-old-local-photos-discovered-in-bags-of-unwanted-slides/
Thanks everyone for the interest in this story. For those who haven't clicked the @Shetnews link to view the pictures, here are some more photos of Shetland that were salvaged by Paul at the dump:
One more for now...and some quick points of clarity - it wasn't me who saved and digitised the photos, that was Paul from 'the dump' in Lerwick. I'm just a journalist! And his eventual goal is to donate the images to the Shetland Museum ( @ShetlandMandA) …https://photos.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/
Here's a few more...
A bit of an update on this - the Shetland museum is happy to accept the slides: https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2021/02/08/museum-happy-to-take-slides-saved-from-the-dump/
