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Title: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: ndedross on Sunday 20 January 08 09:14 GMT (UK)
This 'well-loved' photograph is of my wife's grandfather, George Henry Aston (1881-1960), greengocer and hawker of Streethouse, West Riding of Yorkshire; together with his horse Charlie.

Could someone restore it to its former glory?

Many Thanks,

Nigel
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: cazza59 on Sunday 20 January 08 10:37 GMT (UK)
Hi Nigel

I can't for the life of me work out what is in the background so I've cleaned it all.

Cheers
Caz
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: cazza59 on Sunday 20 January 08 10:45 GMT (UK)
And one slightly different.

Caz
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: ndedross on Sunday 20 January 08 11:04 GMT (UK)
Caz - many thanks, they look great.

I had a look at the original, which is pretty fragile. The only thing I can see in the background is on the right hand side. It looks like the back of St Luke's Sharleston Church, and is a hundred or more yards off. My wife and I married there, and I remember the vicar showing me the back door and saying there were open fields behind if I wanted to do a runner!

Nigel
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: wpatch on Saturday 13 February 16 00:02 GMT (UK)
I lived in Steethouse and Married in Sharlston Church also, The only horse and cart was Seymours in my time, my friends grandad was Aston and I shall ask him. had a go at your photo and it took about 12 minutes, finding this page again took me 1 hour
David
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: MartynS on Saturday 13 February 16 06:27 GMT (UK)
Some black and white variations from me.

Thanks
Martyn
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: MartynS on Saturday 13 February 16 06:30 GMT (UK)
and some colour versions

To me it looked like there was originally a farmhouse or building structure in background, so this i added.

Thanks
Martyn
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: japeflakes on Saturday 13 February 16 08:14 GMT (UK)
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Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: Wiggy on Saturday 13 February 16 09:15 GMT (UK)
You have several good restores - this is just for fun!   :)

Wiggy
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: Treetotal on Saturday 13 February 16 09:46 GMT (UK)
This was posted in 2008  ???
Carol
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: MartynS on Saturday 13 February 16 09:51 GMT (UK)
Well spotted Carol, i didn't notice that  ::). David resurrected it with his restore.

Martyn
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: wpatch on Saturday 13 February 16 10:34 GMT (UK)
I hadn't realized the background revealed so will have a study tonight, it does look like a small spire.There is a program called vuescan that I tried before and it does wonders with the various ways and formats it works in, I can strongly recommend it as it is was in front of normal scanning programs.
David   
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: ndedross on Saturday 13 February 16 11:19 GMT (UK)
Wow - a sudden Charlie revival after 7/8 years. Well, I'm still here and very grateful for the new restores. thanks to David, Martyn, japeflakes & Wiggy for your time and skill. The gentleman is my wife's grandfather and I'll show her all your restores this afternoon (she now has to live in a care home).
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: MartynS on Saturday 13 February 16 11:35 GMT (UK)
Welcome back.

Great your still getting notice of updates. All work was not wasted by all restorers ;)
Martyn
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: ymfoster on Sunday 14 February 16 00:58 GMT (UK)
I've done one also.  :)

Yvonne
Title: Re: Could someone restore Charlie please?
Post by: ndedross on Tuesday 16 February 16 10:54 GMT (UK)
Yvonne,

Thank you for the restore, it is much appreciated.

Susan