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| kev |
Does anyone remember GratispoolBeen talking with my mum about old pictures for the site and she told me about a company that traded out of Glasgow called Gratispool who sent a free film with your prints She then found this site.. Fasinatinghttp://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Gratispool.html |
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| Alex Glass |
I don't remember the building but it was one of the main photo processing companies and most people would have got their films developed by Gratispool I think. | ||||
| escotregen |
I well remember Gratispool. They seemed to gro big time in the 70s by heavily marketing the angle of ‘buy and develop your spool (and yes we did call, them spools) from us and get the next one free’. They had a big shop down at the Saltmarket that I can remember. They were welcome alternative to having to put your film into the local ‘chemist’ for developing – the chemists were a) expensive b) you usually had a bit of a wait for the developed film c) they were sometimes sniffy about what prints you could get ( even maybe about whether you got the negatives without asking).
It wasn’t until the first time I was in France on holiday in that period when it struck me … French for free is ‘gratis’… we called the film a ‘spool’… so we got ‘Gratispool’… Duh, that’s pure dead brilliant, we thought! Oh how we entertained ourselves in those days before street lights, VCR and digital TV. |
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| rotten milk |
didn't know where/what/how, but 'gratispool' is etched on my brain from when i was a youngster, mainly from looking through family phots, esp. the 70s - it was either on the 'wallet' or a bit of paper inside
when it was mentioned, i had a rake through phots i have (the rest are at my mum's) and came up with these: photie wallet 
inserts 
just imagine, a glesga photie service with the emblem 'FFS' 
also, never mind 'new york, london ,paris, etc.' when you have 'maidenhead, glasgow, brum, amsterdam, brussels' 
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| cybers |
Aye but the Amsterdam ones were always blurry ... | ||||
| Alex Glass |
Isn't it strange how fate always place a hand with some things.
Whilst working on a wee project for a friend I came across a photo with this cover. 
Funny how these things seem to happen at the right time. |
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| Fjord |
Is that the Turin Shroud?
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| Alex Glass |
I couldn't leave the photo in it as it is a very personal photos of someone and I don't think they would have been to pleased if I posted their school photo all over the internet 
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| John |
How No
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| rotten milk |
bloody hell, of course!
even with no photie in it, as soon as i saw the frame, i was thinking 'school photie' mind ye used tae get two big photies and about 6 wee yins and for some reason these photies always brought out the worst in yer haircut  
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| Fjord |
Christ's I've just remembered that format. It was like several passport sized photo's of the main image. Absolutely useless on most occasions. |
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| Alex Glass |
My school photo at Secondary School has got to be one of the worst ever. We had been outside playing football during PE and I had to go and get my photo taken after having a shower. My hair (YES! I did have hair) was stuck down because it was still wet.  
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| rotten milk |
aye, but did it look like ye'd cut it yersel' (or had otherwise no control over it)
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| Alex Glass |
Escaped prisoner from the State Hospital
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| rotten milk |
wi' a nice side parting is a given........
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| Alex Glass |
How right you are 
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| rotten milk |
sorry, it just occured to me (sort of on off-topic  )
do (or did you) have a shed? (please tell me i'm not goin aff ma nut) |
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| HollowHorn |
From Streapadair:
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| 27stowst |
HAIR SHEDS
Maybe ah'm aff ma nut but ah think that lassies sheds were oan the right and boys oan the left, the way coats etc were buttoned!!! |
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| Joe the Tug |
GratispoolGratispool building in the mid 80's
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| Fjord |
Thanks for resurrecting this thread Joe the Tug I knew I had a few Gratispool snaps from the 1970's to post up. Though they had cut back to just one main photograph and two smaller ones by then. The photo paper has a weird embossed texture so they didn't scan too well. Our old house c.1977 
My Big Sister, wee brother and me on holiday in sun drenched Girvan 1975 Gratispool style 
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| cybers |
Wow Fjord ...
If you posted that photo up and never said anything about it i bet we could have picked you out of it... Never changed much just got taller ... You are the one on the left right
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| womble |
Re: HAIR SHEDS
Spot on but you forgot the weird middle shed, Mine was a left shed untill I got into heavy metal and grew it long  . Now it's a middle shed about 3" wide 
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| norrie |
Hi Fjor, the quality isnt that bad but it the photos that matter, Nostalga, its a thing of the past
Bye for now, norrie |
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