🖌️ Photo Restorer and Colouriser. ✨ Preserving and bringing history to life. Each old photo restored and colourised meticulously by hand.
Kent, UK
Joined April 2011
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Billy the Kid, c1880 (Henry McCarty, b1859)
Kid was a notorious American outlaw & gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to 9 murders.
In 1881, Sheriff Garrett captured Kid. However, he escaped killing 2 deputies, evading capture for 2 months. Kid was shot & killed, age 21.
From the Blitz to the Alps: My Grandad Leslie Harris’s 26-year firefighting legacy. From the NFS in Erith to a Warrant Officer in the Army Fire Service, he tackled fires from Algiers to Italy during WW2, later training the next generation at Kent Fire Brigade. 🚒🔥
Private C E Stevens 1922-1977. In WW2, he volunteered in 1939 at 17 and served in the Royal Signals Regiment.
Photo is 1944 after training to be a founder member of The Parachute Regiment. He fought at Arnhem & was captured, and then spent over a year in a prisoner-of-war camp.
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The first trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast.
Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans.
In cinemas 9 September.
#pressuremovie @StudiocanalUK
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A photo restorer has breathed new life into the only universally accepted portrait of Billy the Kid, giving viewers a clearer image of the Wild West’s most infamous outlaw.
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"My grandfather, John Ernest Rickard, born in 1900. Taken during his time in the far east in the Royal Navy on HMS Kent, from 1931 to 1933; between his military service in both WW1 and WW2.Deteriorated over the years, but I wanted it restored"
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"Photo of my sister in law who died at 19. It was so badly faded that you could barely make any features out. No one in the family had any other photos of her at this age and I had never seen her face clearly before and I did shed a tear to see her properly."
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"This is one of the only photos I have of my Mom, so it's quite precious to me. I loved her pose, looking off in the distance, cigarette in hand, which was so popular at the time!"
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“Photo of my wife and her father wiling away time in Trafalgar Square in December 1955 as a second daughter was being born in the hospital nearby was restored and partially colourised by Nick as a birthday present. An excellent job“
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Restoration of the first football team at Springwood School in Lanett, AL in the U.S. 1972-73. Most of these guys just celebrated their 50-year class reunion, and they will be so thrilled to get a copy of this picture!
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Vintage poster encouraging recruits for the Royal Naval reserve, c1957. The significance of the image is that the individual in the centre of the group of three is my father in law who is now 84 years old and was in the Royal Naval Reserves.
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#RoyalNavy
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A photo restorer breathed fresh life into a forgotten zoo by colorizing a set of black-and-white photos from the 1940s. petapixel.com/2024/11/23/bri…
A cherished photo captures a moment frozen in time, depicting my grandparents wedding in 1930, held in Pittsburgh.
To our great astonishment, this photo only surfaced recently, the first time we have laid eyes on a photograph capturing them in their younger days.
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A photo of my Dad’s sister Jane Gibson enjoying a day at the beach. Jane died in her 20’s from breast cancer, about 50 years ago and this was one of the few photos he had of her.
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A photo of my mother when she was about 21, from the mid 1930's. Nick has restored and colourised it beautifully. Although she has now been gone for over 50yrs and was taken from us when I was in my mid-teens this photograph will be a cherished memory of her.
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"Photo of my in-laws at my wedding back in May 2001. It’s the only photo we’ve got of them on their own, it’s lovely to have it restored, it's fantastic. With no access to any negative to get another copy so it’s very precious to us."
Shared by Lynne
"Thanks Nick, very happy with the result. Think it was taken around about 1948. I am the smallest one with a brother and sister. The only photo of me as a small child. Taken in back garden in Eltham. London"
Shared by Sandra
"The picture is of my brother who died when he was 5 we do not have many pictures of him and this, our favourite picture was so faded. To have the restored prints and digital image that will never fade means we always have Steven with us now."
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"1968 Bagwell Shield winners, Cowes Secondary School Senior XI (under 16) in Isle of Wight. There comes a time when one remembers back to people and occasions and this photo from 1968, that has been so remarkably restored is one such time."
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