Coincidentally…..

A letter to the local paper in 2025, praising Jim Boal for starting Bangor Camera Club.

….I recorded the interview with Jim Boal early in 2025 and our chat was wide-ranging, including some material I wasn’t able to use in the final long episode.

But a few weeks later, I spotted this Letter to the Editor in our local newspaper – the County Down Spectator – and I just had to go back to our conversation and find this little clip.

Now Jim said he thought Bangor Camera Club’s inaugural meeting was in 1962 – but it was actually in 1961 and it’s still going strong!

https://www.bangor-camera-club.co.uk/

NASA’s website also confirms that May 5, 1961 was the day of Alan B. Shepard’s flight aboard his Mercury capsule Freedom 7 and the day he became the first American in space. Three weeks later, says NASA, US President John F. Kennedy committed to achieving a lunar landing by the end of the decade.

Momentous indeed!