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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: rdiedo on Saturday 06 October 12 03:57 BST (UK)
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This is my Nan and Grandad Mary and Dennis Packham. I think it is when they were courting and before they were married. They had quite a romantic story, she was an east end girl from London, he was a country boy who only ever left his small Kent farming town when he went to war in the navy. They met when she came down from London hop picking in the Kent hopfields, and the rest as they say is history... and that's why I'm here! My Mum (their daughter) loves this photo of her Mum and Dad. The damage was caused before we ever owned the photo and I would so like to get the tears filled in for my Mum.
Is it do-able? No colour required, just repair. I appreciate you can't fill in the missing corner but cropped slightly is just fine.
Thank you in advance.
Richard
PS - having just posted the photo and seen it all blown up I realise how bad the damage is. I'm not sure you can do much to disguise those big tears but I dare say it's a challenge if you're brave enough!
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Gave it a go for you - the missing corner could probably be filled in if we knew what it was which I didn't so it would have been just a black blob However hope you like this one
Cheers
Maureen
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Thank you Maureen! I don't know know how you do it, and so quick too! Makes me realise how little I know about using a computer
Richard
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Hi Richard,
Best I can do at the moment.
Kind regards
George4
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Here's a quick tidy. I won't be hurt if someone expands upon it. ;)
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One from me
Irene
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Two more goes.
Terry
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In a Kentish hop garden.
Bill.
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Straightened a bit & two versions, :)
Yvonne
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And the winner is....
Of course I'm teasing. Thank you everyone for all your hard work, I'm amazed at your results! Bill how did you get the hop garden in there? It all goes to remind me how little I know about what my humble pc is capable of. My Mum is going to be over the moon.
So that we can let you all invest your time and effort in someone else's project I think we can consider this particular photo now 'fixed'.
Thank you!
Richard
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Sadly Richard most of the hop gardens here in Kent have gone, :'( even the farmhouse featured in 'The darling buds of may' is up for sale... You can buy it for around £1000,000. ::)
Bill.
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Don't I know it Bill I'm still in Tenterden Kent. My Mum often reminisces about her time in the hop fields as a young girl in the 50's. Cold dewy mornings, getting a good soaking when you pulled the first bines down in the early morning, making mud cakes, sitting on the side of the bin pulling the hops away from the bine, tally men and the hop puller on the stilts, life on the common in the hopper huts - I almost feel like I was there! But it was a little bit before my time. Sad really but great memories for those who were there.