Old photos of Pollensa and Puerto Pollensa on Facebook
 

Hi All

I've just been sent a great link by a friend on Facebook for

FOTOS ANTIGUES DE POLLENÇA

Some great photos of the area on there!
A real trip back in time :)

Thanks for the tip! Some great photos there - the cart and donkey on Pine Walk looks so peaceful, and the Hotel Illa Dor so impressive! Wish I knew how to print them all off!:rolleyes:
Not sure if this link will work, but if so it will take you to the main album page.

Welcome to Facebook

Thanks for the link Bella - it worked brilliantly.
What wonderful photographs! I agree they would be lovely to print off. Thats my project of the day. If I have any luck i will let you know.

Brilliant pictures Lornzo thanks for posting, as for printing out just right click the picture and choose 'save picture as' and then save it to your PC, then print out as usual, I would check that they are not copyrighted first

Thanks SWS - will give that a try.

As for copyright - I thought anything put on a social networking site such as Facebook became open and therefore the copyright laws didn't stand. Perhaps need to check up on this as I may be wrong - has been known to happen on the rare occasion! lol

Yes it worked sws - thanks again!

Absolutely fantastic photos, didn't know there used to be a bull ring in PP, does anybody know where it was?

Brilliant, i love looking at old b/w photos.:D
Like Whaley i would love to know where the bullring was.

Well done Lorenzo and Belladonna in finding the photos and the link, they are wonderful.:)
I left clicked on my mouse and clicked "Save Picture As.." I then printed onto photograph paper, they turn out very well.

Thanks again

PP76

Youre welcome PP! I too managed to do the "click, save and print" thing - thanks to heads up - yet again - from sws! They do come out well. Still trying to work out where the bull ring was though!

I just thought I must comment on such a fantastic group of photo's.

Good or what!?
 

Ok! After much inter island communications today, super sleuth bella has been able to report that this photo of the bullring was taken 40 years ago, and was behind what is now the estate agent Sol Imobilaria, near Eroski - by the plane roundabout.

Now, if some super map googler can now sort out a link which shows the area, we can do a "now and then" shot!

I thank you!;)

Thanks Bella, very interesting, this seems to be a bit of PP history that not many of us know about.:)

Spent a happy time this afternoon showing these photos to my parents. Then had a look at the people who 'like' them on Facebook and tried to work out who is on here...

Wow Bella! That is some going! Well done!
Excellent research skills - how did you do it!
I know - if you tell me that you will have to kill me lol

Excellent work!

old photos of Pollensa & Puerto Pollensa
 

More photos are being added all the time so do look again when you have the chance.
:)

Thanks Lorenzo. Look at the old car outside Hotel Miramar! Wonderful photos.

Thanks Lorenzo for bringing this to our attention and Bella for posting the Link:)
Loving these photos... as much as I love PP now, I would have loved to have known it then too!!

Brilliant link Lorenzo...........many thanks for posting ...... and to Bella for the link on Facebook :)

PS...my avatar is Puerto Pollenca in the snow...I dont imagine that happens very often !

Susie it did on the 10th March this year :eek:.

In todays DM.



British artist’s Majorcan bar scene is top UK art magazine’s travel drawing of the month
By Humphrey Carter

PALMA
FORMER Pollensa resident and regular visitor to Majorca, artist Jill Carter, has one of her Majorcan bar scene sketches published in this month’s edition of the leading British magazine Artists & Illustrators.

One of the regular columnists and artists was wondering in last month’s edition if any of his readers kept “visual” diaries with sketches or paintings of their travels and Jill Carter, who has been putting together a large collection of Majorcan bar scenes, as well as watercolour landscapes, over the years replied by submitting one of her many sketches which has been subsequently published in this month’s edition.

Artists & Illustrators (A&I), is the best-selling magazine for professional artists and aspiring amateurs. For more than 20 years, A&I has provided inspiration and practical advice to its readers Each issue is packed with practical features and profiles of leading and up and coming artists. Leading artists such as Quentin Blake, Julian Schnabel, Barbara Rae and Peter Blake share their thoughts and inspirations, and describe their own working methods.