Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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