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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A difficult one
« on: Wednesday 22 June 11 15:38 BST (UK)  »
Not much to work with there unfortunately.
As Niksmum says, if you can have the photo scanned at 300 dots per inch, (or higher) you will have an increased chance of a usable result.

To keep the scanned image file size down try to scan just the area around your mum. We would be cutting the rest off anyway.

Here's a rough cut for now.

Gordon


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Quick clean & buff for a 1940 photo please
« on: Wednesday 22 June 11 15:20 BST (UK)  »
A wee tweak of the facial shadows in Rachel's lovely restore.


Gordon


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo Fix
« on: Wednesday 08 June 11 00:53 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: WiggyHobbes on Tuesday 07 June 11 03:22 BST (UK)
- ... when I post on here, funny dotty things appear ...
Wiggy    :)

That's no way to refer to your fellow posters Wiggy!  :o

 ;) ;D ;D ;)

Gordon

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date these please
« on: Friday 27 May 11 05:19 BST (UK)  »
May I suggest that "Hawton" in more likely to be "Horton Quarry"?

Google throws back no result for a Hawton quarry but Horton, (in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire), certainly sits on a rail line which was completed in the 1870's.

"Near the churchyard and New Inn are later cottages, whilst Victorian terraces reflect the coming of the railway in the 1870s. More recent are quarrymen's housing, built when the limestone quarries first scarred the slopes of Moughton, west of the railway, in about 1890"

Source:> http://www.skiptonweb.co.uk/tourist/nearby_villages/horton.htm

Would that location tie in with your expectations?


Gordon


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date and Cleanup
« on: Tuesday 24 May 11 03:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Palmira on Tuesday 24 May 11 01:02 BST (UK)
Prue,

My cousin in Sydney who "found" the Bingham Family image says that on the bottom edge it has "AYTON"  and "DERRY".

Ayton's studio was operating in Shipquay Place, Londonderry by 1884, which would appear to reinforce your date range and Irish location speculations.

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_studios/0_studios_ayton_londonderry_shipquay_place_1890c.htm

**Edit**:
Further investigation reveals that Ayton opened his first studio in Londonderry in 1859.

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/PP/pp_ayton_which_alexander.htm

Gordon

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Midlothian / Re: Helen Cameron ms Ramsay (Leith)
« on: Monday 23 May 11 05:05 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: MonicaL on Monday 16 May 11 14:16 BST (UK)

Address: 8 E Bowling Grange, Leith

That will be: 8 East Bowling Green Street

The handwriting on the original census form must have been a bit rough.  ;D


Gordon

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: PENNY
« on: Monday 23 May 11 02:26 BST (UK)  »
Genuinely sorry to read of your loss Pughy. :(

Gordon





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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Possible Romany Relatives - Need Date to Assist Guesses!
« on: Sunday 22 May 11 03:38 BST (UK)  »
Am I awake too late and just imagining things here?

Thoughts? ......... ("Get to bed you nutter!" is an acceptable response   ;D )

Gordon


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Dating please?
« on: Saturday 21 May 11 21:19 BST (UK)  »
I'd recheck any other sources you have for her and the family.

The census invigilator may have misheard her age or perhaps scribbled it down making it hard to distinguish an 8 from a 0

and sometimes people didn't always tell the truth on census forms.  ;)


Gordon

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