[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Astronaut Michael Collins 1969

[Douglas Barry]

Great shot, Alan. A brave man, indeed. Just imagine what his watch would 
sell for now.

The roads in an entire housing estate in Dublin were named after the 
personnel and places in the 1969 moon landing - Tranquility Grove, 
Apollo Way, Armstrong Walk, etc. However, in the middle of all these 
evocative names is Woodville Court. The residents there were outraged 
with the original name of Collins Rendezvous and voted in a plebiscite 
back in the 1970s to change it to something more prosaic that evoked the 
neighbourhood. From the name Woodville Court, one would imagine a 
courtly sylvan avenue lined with impressive buildings, but no, not a 
single tree to be seen other than the odd one in some front gardens.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3937451,-6.2113976,3a,75y,212.59h,97.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUVAVkMLO3W4xP_kNi0tGUg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

While there is a Collins Avenue close enough nearby, it's named after 
Michael Collins the Irish revolutionary leader.

Douglas
PS Here's a great shot of the ISS transiting the sun last Friday week 
which I saw on Reddit  https://i.redd.it/yj21yqooldv61.jpg


On 30/04/2021 00:47, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote:
> Hearing of the passing of Michael Collins, I digitized a photo I shot of
> him at a press conference in November 1969, when I was still
> working on my university's student newspaper.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19691108_MR_Collins.jpg.html