The second batch is terrific, Foz- what type of bike is that your dad is tooling around on? 
And I agree that there's no substitue for a real print- it's just more tangible; has a special thing about it, esp.  if it's really old.
Funny thing about digital backups: I read once that the Smithsonian Museum once did an exhaustive study on the best possible material overall for very-long-term storage of information. Their choice? Paper. Not plastic, not metal- paper. Exactly why, I'm not sure; that's just what I heard. Not necessarily for graphics, etc, and certainly not ordinary paper... they're probably working on some sort of digital format that is based on paper. Paper discs worked pretty well back in the day- Bayer had a series of field recordings out on laminated-paper phonograph discs back in the 20s or 30s. I've heard some of them played on the radio, and they sound pretty good, even today.
  The trick I guess would be reading such a disc or whatever with a laser that won't degrade the paper...
But a quality photo print or negative, sealed to keep out oxygen and kept in a dark, stable environment when not being viewed, will last a long, long time. Now that I've finished scanning all my old prints , I should really get them (and the negatives) out of the shoebox and into something more suitable... .
then there's the rapidly-growing cache of digital pictures from the new camera... ohboy. 

Wow! stunning pieces of history you got there Paul! Love 'em... You will see these kins of shots from time to time and get baffled that people once thought of those days as the modern times... put it all in perspective doesn't it?

btw, is that Hagar on your left in the first shot? 

Greetings Fozzer, 
   Just thought I do a little work with your photo.  It is
still a work ing progress but, I wanted to show you.
To be honest with you I could do a better job with the
original file.  Hope you like what I did so far. The one
gentlemen in the back row were the tear was is given me a fit.

Hi Willit...!

You are magic, Mate... ... ... ...!

Fantastic job...!

Many thanks... ...!

I've saved your work safely on CD....!

Sooper-Dooper...!

Cheers...!

Paul The Greatful... 8)...!

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That's excellent. Far better than I could do now. Just goes to show what can be done.

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Photographs can detriorate with time & also get damaged or lost. This is unfortunately what happened to most of mine so I have very few reminders of my past except the pictures in my head. This is fine all the time I have my marbles but I can't show them to anyone else. I also have no proof that anything I say about my past life is in fact true. I have the original of every digital photo I've taken in the last two years stored on a remote hard drive & the best ones also backed up to CD. I have no idea how long these will last but I can always print them out or look at them on my PC monitor or TV screen. This is becoming very popular these days.

The thing I like about about photographs is that you can carry them in your pocket to show to the MAJORITY of folks who dont own, or have have access, to a computer.... ...!

During a visit with your CD ROM, try showing your Mate in his mud hut,  in deepest, darkest Africa, pictures of your holiday in Disneyland in Florida* without the use of a "computer"......!
...that's not going to work.....!!

Cheers all...!

Paul...8)...!

* God forbid... ... ...!

A few more details regarding the venerable Fosbery Family...>>>

The recipient of the George Cross...>>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vincent_Fosbery

The designer of the automatic pistol...>>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley-Fosbery_Automatic_Revolver

And more details of the venerable Fosbery Clan...>>>

http://www.fosbery.com/

Enjoy...!

Loads of details, photo's etc, held by the Fozzers, known throught the world...!
(Courtesy of my dear old Dad)...!

Paul L Fosbery.