Look at the detail in this

jackthelad wrote:

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That's a model.

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 It's a colourised photo.

This photo was taken in 1918

Colourised and enhanced.

1960's London.   This is how I remember Piccadilly as a kid.  That coca cola sign used to fascinate me.

Photo taken in 1839

British veteran of that campaign, displaying his Service Medal from the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1814. The photo was taken in 1850

Married bliss by the look of it

Summer of 1928, two young ladies purchasing ice cream from L Kelley's converted ice cream van, close to St. Austel in Cornwall.

veteran match seller by the Masonry Museum in Canterbury, UK, was taken by the visiting American photographer Clifton Royal Adams back in 1928.

Digger wrote:

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1960's London.   This is how I remember Piccadilly as a kid.  That coca cola sign used to fascinate me.

  

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 Great photos, I remember sitting 8n a coffee bar look8ng out at the Coca Cola sign. I was  17....It looked exactly like this pic.

Manchester.

A lot of the N West of England was still like this in the lifetimes of a few of us on here.

When I was a kid in the 50's everywhere that needed heat and or hot water was powered by coal. Coal was king.

Shops offices factories bus stations railway stations hospitals schools homes were all belching out smoke from a chimney.

There was the odd oil fired place but coal really was king.

The shop windows had black soot on them as did the rain running down the side of the roads into the drains.

The buildings were black in many cases. My mum would check which way the wind was blowing before hanging out the washing to avoid soot on it all.

Lived in London when I was a kid.   The smog was terrible.   

Absolutely brilliant.  Now everydays the past is a target for attack and imaginative to fanciful revision.

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Absolutely brilliant.  Now everydays the past is a target for attack and imaginative to fanciful revision.

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 Can you run that by me again?

Now everydays = Nowadays

Two wee Glasgow boys around 1850

Children were sometimes worked for two or three days and the Whig Act of 1851 allowed small children to be punished by up to 36 lashes.

Old school photo around 1946...

My dad is at the end of the middle row on the left.

One of only two photos of my dad as a child.

Being the sixth of eight children his parents were very poor.

It's only him and the youngest two left now.