Found a picture

[deadants]

I was looking at my G grandfarthers details from an online census and I thought I'd do a search on google of the address. And what do you know? It's listed with a real estate agent online and there's a photo from the street. Pity about the cars though.

I better go check some more address's, you never know.


deadants

[trystan]

Deadants,

That was a good stroke of luck! Well done

Trystan

[Adi1962]

I would be really cheeky and phone them up and ask for a copy of the details, tell them your interested in moving to the area or something.

Down side is you may get bombarded with loads of details.

Adrian

[Kazza]

Deadants,

Great tip there,  I am going to get Googling now. 

Kazza.

[Biker]

Hi,

Yes doing a bit of Googling on street names does pay off - using google image finder is useful too.  I found a picture of Morris Street, Stepney which is the street where my family owned a pub from 1895 to 1920s just along from the Sainsbury's.
It is on the Sainsbury Archive website - on asking to reproduce it, they were very helpful and gave me permission to use it on my family tree website if I wanted too.  I've also found some old pictures of streets where my rellies lived which is just interesting to see.

http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/1881.htm

Regards
Jonathan

[deadants]

One of the best ones I found doing a google search was my GG grandfarthes pub in Barnsley, The Masons Arms. It's no longer a pub but the building is still there. It's no a tyre retailer.



Here's a then and now. It was in front of the old Clarkeson Brewery. The Sign on the old pub says Clarkeson Brewery. The one on the right was black and white, I colourised it in photoshop.

Deadants

[Keith Bateman]

Hi Deadants,

What a great picture - you say you colourised it yourself - not tried that - have removed marks etc - but not thought about recoloring!

Any tips?


Cheers

Keith

[deadants]

Well Keith, if you want to colorise a photo, you will need a software package that can do Layers. I use Adobe  Photoshop but the cheaper version Adobe Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro will do the job

There are plenty of online tutorials for colorising.

http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=186357

http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/photos/colorizing/

http://81.138.9.90/lolaness/tutorials/colorchange.htm

http://www.mandarindesign.com/tutorials/colorizing.html

This is one of my first attempts. It's my grandfarther with the shotgun.



It looks a lot better at high resolution, but you get the idea.

deadants

[Keith Bateman]

Hi deadants,

Thanks for that - have used layers - but only to make signs for my model railway!!

Never thought about using it for actual photos!!

Is your grandfather getting ready for a Shot Gun Wedding!!

Hope my first attempt is as good.

Cheers

Keith