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96 years young

May I join the AP Readers Geriatric Club? I was born in June 1927, so I’m probably not the eldest member. It seems that I was a slow learner because it took me until I was 11 years old to develop my first film. The film was photographs of model aircraft that I’d made and were contact printed on printing out paper. My interest in aircraft led to a career in the aerospace industry.

You are correct in your reply to Mike Rignall’s letter (AP 16 May); we all have our own particular photographic interests. As a compulsive DIY enthusiast, the first AP that I read, passed to me by a family friend, was a happy source of

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