“His name was Sydney Whiteside, born 1919,” says Austin Whiteside, who inherited his grandfather’s archive of photographs. “He served in the second world war in France including Dunkirk. After the war he got married, had a family and then retired to Cornwall. He passed away in 2013 and I inherited his large collection of black and white negatives and Kodachrome slides. I never really saw many of them when he was alive apart from the odd slideshow that would take days to set up. Looking at and scanning the photos has been like getting to know my Grandparents in a different way, especially seeing how they were when they were young.”
The title says ‘Grandpa’s Kodachromes” but a few black and white phots are included of Sydney in his 20s and his friends. As ever, imagine the stories between the photos…
Lake District – 1965
Milkman – Waltham Abbey, Essex – 1968
1964 – England
Surf Shack – Mullion, Cornwall – 1968
On The Beach – 1954
Cadgwith, Cornwall – 1967
Poldhu Beach – May 1982
Mixed bathing – Plymouth, England
1941
1967
Aberdeen, Scotland
Jim
Sydney and friends – 1940s
London – 1960s
Thatchers – Bedfordshire, 1979
Photographic Expo – London 1960s
Photographic expo – London, 1960s
London, 1960s
Leica advertising – 35mm slide – 1960s
Sydney Whiteside on home-leave – 1942
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