26th March
Phil brought us a couple of films from his own personal archive this evening - but eventswere delayed by the sudden discovery of a projector problem: the sound stopped working!
It took a good half hour before the issue was resolved, and even then not completely satisfactorily. The projector seems to have developed a glitch with the sound which, while we have found away to work around it, is still a bit of a nuisance and we may yet have to resort to getting it serviced.
This delay put a dent in Phil’s planned films for the evening, but he was able to continue with some footage he’s shot some time ago of the legendary character, Fred Dibnah, working on a friend’s steam traction engine and then driving it through Ramsbottom and along Walmersley Road, as pictured above.