Restoration Please - Albert Farmer & Alice Greenhill 1919

[Coys1955]

I'd appreciate a manual (i.e. non-AI) attempt to remove the tears and creases and clean up the background staining, etc of this photo of my paternal grandparents. She isn't wearing a wedding ring so I assume it was taken shortly before their 1920 marriage, but after the war, so about 1919.

It's one of only two surviving photos of them together from around that time, the other taken on their wedding day (in that one she is wearing a white dress and white hat and a wedding ring and they are both wearing flowers) and as you can see it's in poor condition. Another photo of my grandmopther from the same sitting (same watch, clothes and sitting on same bench, brooch moved from neck to centre of her blouse, but no hat or jacket) is in excellent condition, as is their wedding photo.

Many thanks in advance.

[Neale1961]

A lovely photo needing restoration. It has slipped by, so am bringing it up on the board. 

Note - request is for NO AI

[McGroger]

My effort.
Peter

[Neale1961]

Lovely work, Peter.

[Wiggy]

Lovely work, Peter.

I do so agree!   

[McGroger]

Thanks so much, Neale  and Wiggy.
Peter

[maddys52]

Lovely photo, and I agree - beautiful restore Peter.

[McGroger]

Thanks, Maddys.
Peter

[Coys1955]

Peter,
That is truly wonderful. Please accept my thanks for bringing it back to life.

I was intrigued by that grid pattern that appeared in the background so I checked the photo of my grandmother alone which is in perfect condition, and it is clearly there. Maybe it’s a window showing through from behind the background?

A bit of background on the sadly short and hard life of my grandfather: He was born in 1889 and was a poor jobbing carpenter and labourer. He joined (presumably conscripted) the RAMC in November 1916 and, being illiterate, didn’t notice that his documentation named him Alfred James Farmer instead of Albert James Farmer. He served in France, presumably as a stretcher-bearer, and suffered gas damage to his lungs which left him a sickly man after the war. He married in 1920 and had three children, but died of tuberculosis in 1930 when my father (the middle of the three) was just seven years old. Fortunately I have his two medals and a couple of pictures of him in uniform, but his silver war badge is missing, although he was wearing it in his only wedding photo.

The one piece of information I’m missing is why he was conscripted into the RAMC rather than the regular army. Maybe he was a conscientious objector or unfit for the regular army?

Thanks once again, Peter.