The Dick Endecott Collection

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1957 - Laurie Swadling near the top of Gibraltar

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1957 - Gibraltar - Ian Holliday - Laurie Swadling

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1757 - Ian Holliday on board the Dunnotar Castle en route for Mombassa

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1957 - Laurie Swadling - plays a tune in the Red Sea

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1961 - Near Beira - crocodile 

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1961 - Up country from Durban - Dick Endecott makes friends with local girls 

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1961 - St Helena - View of the town from near Jacobs Ladder

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1961 - St Helena - Jacobs ladder - Steps to the guns at the top of the cliff for defence of the harbour. The smooth slab to the right of the ladder was used to pull supplies to the top on sledges.

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1961 - The home of Napoleon during his exile on St Helena

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1961 - The Cable & Wireless station on St Helena. Before electronic regeneration of cable signals arriving at St Helena, there was a staff of about 40 operators to interpret the cable signals and retype them for forwarding. 

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1961 - Returning to the Warwick Castle after a day on St Helena

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1961 - Ascension - NASA had just installed its satellite tracking station.

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1961 - Ascension - NASA dish on hilltop

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1961 - Ascension - Looking down from near the top of Green Mountain.

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1961 - Ascension - Guardroom entrance to the US base

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1961 - Doug Semple standing near the entrance to the tunnel through to the crater. 

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