23/12/2022
Merry Christmas everyone and to anyone Polish following this page..
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23/12/2022
Getting the trees for Christmas in the 1930s.
23/12/2022
An image colourised with permission from Maureen Pattison taken in London in 1939.
She writes:
"This is me on the day she was Christened in 1939, war had been declaired and my dad had his call up papers, so it was a rush job you might as well say, to get me Christened before my dad had to leave. My Godmother Violet Hart is holding me."
18/12/2022
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, DBE
Born in Richmond on the 18th of December 1908 and died in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film.
She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953). For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
16/12/2022
Colourised image taken by Lewis Hine of a New York Street Kid. 1910.
Original also shown.
14/12/2022
Augustus Williams, 1890 at the Barnardo's Home for Children in London.
Augustus Williams left his home in Portland, Jamaica, after both his parents died, with ambition to explore the world.
He made his way by sea from St Lucia to London, arriving in December that year. He became destitute and was admitted to Barnardo's in January 1890.
In a reply to a letter seeking information about Augustus from Barnardo's, Horatio Vaz, Clerk to the Circuit Court in Kingston with whom the boy had lived for some time, wrote: 'I am glad to say he is well known to me. I found him to be a good and honest boy. I suppose, wishing to see a little of the world, he left his home. '
Augustus returned to sea in October 1891, but neither his destination nor his eventual fate is known.
12/12/2022
Another image provided by Chris and Colourised with his permission.
This is his Great Grandmothers younger sister.
Lula Ann Hobby was born on September 20, 1883, in Shelby, Michigan to Henry and Mary Hobby.
She married Oren J. HESSEL on May 20, 1907, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She died on August 14, 1953, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the age of 69.
A link to the original:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chain12/49704586553
11/12/2022
Another image provided by Chris and Colourised with his permission. Unidentified Young Lady from St. Johnsbury, Vermount taken at some point between 1877 and 1880.
Link to the original:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chain12/24471055360
11/12/2022
An image provided by Chris.
Colourised with his permission, this photo was taken in Greenville, Pennsylevania in the late 1800s.
Link to the original and more images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chain12/17474389300
11/12/2022
Colourised image provided by Patrick Bradley.
This a CDV Portrait of a young girl -taken in Vienna 1911
Studio: Friedr. Schiller - Wien (Vienna)
A link to the original
https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickbradley70/8658689543/in/photostream
10/12/2022
Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingénues.She appeared in adaptations of Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare,and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930).
05/12/2022
An image colourised with permission by Gail Durbin.
This is her cousin Anne Conway.
(1938-2020)
Link to the original:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovedaylemon/51161741408/in/dateposted/
05/12/2022
An image colourised with permission if Gail Durbin.
Her Great Aunt Frances Eveline Gordon (1895-1991). She (Frances) would go on to marry a man called Bob Burns.
As usual a link to the original is provided.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovedaylemon/51162886515/in/dateposted/
04/12/2022
Colourised with permission from Michael Gross.
This is his cousin Charlotte kosmowsky in 1940.
A link to the original.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgrr/52506158544
02/12/2022
George Appo
Louis Capone
Joe Masseria
Harry Horowitz
26/11/2022
Private Harry Stanley Beale
17 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
Private Beale died, aged 24, on 27 July 1916.
25/11/2022
A photo of Midshipman Michael Anthony Ormus Biddulph , Royal Navy 1915.
He was born on the 30th of January 1902 and his date of enrolment in the Royal Navy was the 15th of September 1915 at the age of 13.
Michael served in both the First and Second World Wars in the RN and was awarded the DSC on the 16th of August 1940. On the 23rd of January 1945, while serving on HMS Florizel as Acting Commander, he was mentioned in despatches. Michael was awarded the OBE on the 13th of June 1946.
He died in 1966 at the age of 64.
25/11/2022
An image provided by Patrick Bradley and Colourised with his permission.
Vintage Photo Portrait of a young woman - USA - 1936
Processed by Locke Photo Service, Grand Island, Nebraska. 22 Dec 1936.
25/11/2022
An image provided by Patrick Bradley.
A young woman.
Circa 1905.
Link to the original:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickbradley70/9270182948/in/dateposted/
24/11/2022
Another image Colourised with permission of Patrick Bradley.
This is a young German girl. 1942.
Link to the original:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickbradley70/12243768685/in/photostream
24/11/2022
Nellie Schaefer, USA circa 1905.
The original image was provided by Patrick Bradley and this was Colourised with his permission.
Link to the original:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickbradley70/10955507415/in/photostream
Patrick writes:
"CAB Portrait of a young woman - USA - c.1905
Studio: Govier - Elroy, Wisconsin
Inscribed on reverse: 'Nellie Schaefer, Elroy, Freshman Classmate'
Nellie M Schaefer or Schafer was born in Wisconsin c.Sept.1885. In the Wis. census of 1905 and the US census of 1900 she is living in Wonewoc town, Wis. with parents Andrew (Antous/Andreas) Schaefer and wife Anna/Annie Schaefer nee Ruppel, both born in Germany and immigrated into the US in 1882 becoming nat.citizens in 1914.
She married Gilbert Carl Seefeldt (Sufeldt,Seefeld) on 18 April 1906 in Elroy, Wis.
By the US census of 1910 they are living in Elroy as Gilbert & Nellie Seefeldt with their 2 children Vera 3, and Spencer 1. By the census of 1920, Nellie Seefeld is divorced, she and her 2 children are living back with her parents in Elroy. On 8 nov 1916, Gilbert Seefeldt married Ida Helena Erickson in Yakima,WA. so Nellie's divorce predates this. Gilbert passed away in 1949.The 1930 US census shows Nellie (now as Schafer again) divorced and still living with her parents in Elroy, aged 44. By 1940, she is living alone in Elroy aged 55. She doesnt appear to have remarried, though when she died has eluded me..."
20/11/2022
1937 Leyland Fire Appliance Southend-on-Sea fire Brigade.
20/11/2022
Richmond Avenue Junior school. Shoeburyness, Essex, England.
Circa 1910.
The school opened in 1900.
I went to this school from the mid 1980s until around 1990 (my teacher was Mrs Brown)
. The building still excists except with the chimnies removed and it is still a school.
Colourise from an image from http://www.footstepsphotos.co.uk/
19/11/2022
A 0-6-0 Saddle tank ,War Department Engine at Shoeburyness,Essex. Year unknown.
Original image provided by Lee Barnard.
18/11/2022
The Cambridge Hotel,viewed looking down from Ness Road. Shoeburyness,Essex. Circa 1910.
Colourised from an image provided by Lee Barnard.
13/11/2022
The Cambridge Hotel, Shoeburyness, Essex,
1920s.
The Cambridge opened in 1881 and ran by John Ayling aged 33 from Southchurch, Essex and his wife Louisa Ayling aged 26 from Knaresborough, York.
In July 1999 Southend police got the licence to the pub revoked (I don't know why) and Developers Runwood Homes, of London Road, Hadleigh, lodged plans with Southend Council's town planners to build a 51 bed two storey sheltered housing complex. The building was demolished in 2000, having spent its final years as the Shoe & Cobbler.
13/11/2022
A photo provided by Richard Hadly and Colourised with his permission.
This is his Grandmother Marorie Hadly in the late 1920s , his Great,Great Grand parents ran this shop in Smith Street, Shoeburyness, Essex.
12/11/2022
Pier Hill, Southend-On-Sea 1902.
08/11/2022
The Railway Hotel,Southend on Sea in the 1930s.
And a more recent image
07/11/2022
The Grand Pier Hotel.Southend-on-sea,
Circa 1910.
It was demolished in the 1980s to make way for a shopping centre.
06/11/2022
The Minerva pub,Southend-On-Sea. Circa 1910
And in 2022.
06/11/2022
Another image provided by John Everett And colourised with permission.
John writes:
"The lady is Milly Everett and the photograph dates from 1930s, she lived in Shoeburyness.
The original photograph was taken by Edward Doo of 45 and 47 Alexandra Street, Southend."
A link to the original
[email protected]/15136065079/in/album-72157647896821181" rel="nofollow,noopener" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/15136065079/in/album-72157647896821181
05/11/2022
Hope my fellow Brits have a great Guy Fawkes/Bonfire night.
Remember..Remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot....
05/11/2022
An image from John Everett.
Colourised with permission.
This is William Everett, his Grandfather in 1918
When he joined the RFA.
He was born in Shoeburyness, Essex.
The family lived in Hinguar Street.
05/11/2022
Another image provided by John Everett.
This is William J. Everett (his Great granfather) he is standing on the locomotive " Romford" and is holding an oil can. He later became a sidings foreman at Shoeburyness.
The image was taken at Southend central, Essex (based on the building in the background which still excisits) between 1885 and 1912.(Romford was painted black and her name removed in 1912)
Romford was a 4-4-2T locomotive built in 1885 for the London Tilbury and Southend Railway.
When the line was taken over by Midland Railway in 1912 she was painted black and given the serial number 2137 and then 2058 in 1930 under the London Midland & Scottish Railway.
She was withdrawn from the line in 1935.
04/11/2022
An image provided by John Everett, and colourised by me.
John writes :
"The boys are Harry (left) and Bill Everett, born 1901 and 1900 respectively. I think the photo dates from about 1915"
The image was taken in Southend on sea,Essex.
Link tothe original
[email protected]/15176020517" rel="nofollow,noopener" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/15176020517
02/11/2022
American Actress, Maude Fealy.
02/11/2022
Gaynor Rowlands (3 April 1883 – 18 July 1906 died age 23), was an English actress, singer, and dancer, born in London, of Welsh parents. In Wales she became known as "Eos Gwalia": The Nightingale of Wales.
Rowlands began her career in the ballet of The Empire Theatre, London under Miss Katie Lanner, graduating in 1900.
She joined the company chorus line of George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre in 1900, toured India in 1901/02, and quickly became a star. In her time she became the most photographed of the "Gaiety Girls"; her roles were portrayed in numerous picture postcards
. She was featured in periodicals such as The Era, The Stage, and The Play Pictorial, and in 1906, in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in scenes from The Spring Chicken.
Rowlands died of heart failure at the age of 23 following surgery for appendicitis. She is buried at Finchley Cemetery, North London
02/11/2022
A colourisation of an image provided by Patrick Bradley.
Portrait of a young woman - USA - c.1945
Studio: J.D.Toloff - Evanston/Oak Park, Illinois
02/11/2022
A Colourisation of an image provided by Patrick Bradley.
CAB Portrait of a young woman - USA - 1892
Studio: W.L.Lee - York, Nebraska.
Inscribed on reverse: Miss May Ingalls of McCool Junction, Nebraska. Taken while attending Teachers Institute at York. 1892.
Eva May, daughter of George Forrest Ingalls & Ella M.Cozzens of Dresden, NY, born Oct.1, 1872 at North Granville, NY. At McCool Junction, Neb, whilst her father was postmaster there. Returned to Dresden, NY and worked as a schoolteacher. Died there, unmarried Sept.1, 1922. Buried in Clemons Cemetery, Clemons Village,Town of Dresden,NY (Mae E. Ingalls 1872-1922) Mentioned in various sources including NY census and C.Burleigh 'The genealogy and history of the Ingalls family in America',1903.
Link to the original
https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickbradley70/8226396408/in/dateposted/
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Hi, absolutely love your work. I know you will have alot of requests but is it at all possible to colourize this family photo circa 1930? Would be a lovely suprise for my grandma as she is the little one in the photo. If you need me to scan in the photo I can do if it helps.
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