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Image of a group portrait of men of the 131 Parachute Engineer Regiment, who had landed at Jersey Airport in the Blackburn Beverley aircraft XH121 Z of Royal Air Force (RAF) Transport Command. They were due to do a parachute drop near to Guernsey but because of the wind direction the jump had been postponed [see JWP 23/5/1959 p 1]. The image was were produced from the negatives depicted in Contact Sheet 11 of Red Contact File 28 from the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive.

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Reference	L/A/75/A4/28/CS11/11
Date	16 May 1959 - 23 May 1959
Names	Jersey Weekly Post Blackburn B-101 Beverley (Aircraft) Royal Air Force Parachute Regiment Jersey Airport
Keywords	photographic negatives \| contact sheets \| old photos \| jobs \| 1950s \| Group portraits \| parachutists \| Regiments \| Transport \| Aircraft \| Royal Air Force \| Aeroplanes \| arrivals \| soldiers \| Military \| Coaches \| Engineers
Places	Jersey Airport
Dimensions	1 35mm negative
Language	English
Level of description	File
Access restrictions	Closed for preservation - please consult digital copy

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L/A/75 Jersey Evening Post (JEP)

L/A/75/A Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive 1921 to 2003. Comprises photo negatives and film, including glass plate negatives, and contact sheets of photographs, from Jersey’s evening newspaper. Arranged in subject boxes, subject files, and chronologically by year and job number. Also includes photographers’ diaries, some of which are indexed. In addition, there are digital images from 2003 to date

L/A/75/A4 Red Contact Files of the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive, 1935 to 1962. The files include original negatives in contact sheet order, contact sheets with annotations, and pages of notes which relate to the images with Jersey Weekly Post (JWP) references.

L/A/75/A4/28 Red Contact File 28 of the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive from April 1958 to August 1960. The file includes original negatives in contact sheet order, contact sheets with annotations, and pages of notes which relate to the images, with Jersey Weekly Post (JWP) references.

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Image of a group portrait of men of the 131 Parachute Engineer Regiment, who had landed at Jersey Airport in the Blackburn Beverley aircraft XH121 Z of Royal Air Force (RAF) Transport Command. They were due to do a parachute drop near to Guernsey but because of the wind direction the jump had been postponed (see JWP 23/5/1959 p 1). The image was were produced from the negatives depicted in Contact Sheet 11 of Red Contact File 28 from the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) Photographic Archive.

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