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Title: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: tazzie on Saturday 20 September 08 11:51 BST (UK)

   Hi guys ......

 We have managed to unearth a grainy photo of my great grandfather Albert Green who died in a rail accident in 1910. Is it possible to have a little clean up and tidy please.......  hope this works... :)   Tazzie

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: tabsearch on Saturday 20 September 08 12:50 BST (UK)

Hi Tazzie

Here's a clean up for you

David

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: Niksmum on Saturday 20 September 08 13:02 BST (UK)

ummmmmm. Nice one David... D ;D ;D

Irene

Sorry ,I have to add that when I looked there was nothing there  :o :o :o :o ::) ::) ::) But it really is a nice one David.

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: gazzatrone on Saturday 20 September 08 13:04 BST (UK)

one original tidied up and one black and white

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: tazzie on Saturday 20 September 08 13:35 BST (UK)

   Oh ..... he looks great Mum will be really pleased.

   I think he looks sad when I look at him...... he died leaving 3 children under 5 and his 4th was born a few months later. My grandad was just 3 and I will admit to tears when I read the report of his death in the local paper after nearly 4 years of searching for him.

      God bless Albert .....

   Thank you all.

                 Tazzie

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: Niksmum on Saturday 20 September 08 14:22 BST (UK)

A couple from me

Irene

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: Niksmum on Saturday 20 September 08 14:49 BST (UK)

What a sad story   :'(

Irene

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: Niksmum on Saturday 20 September 08 14:50 BST (UK)

and with a bit more contrast

Irene

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: tazzie on Saturday 20 September 08 14:55 BST (UK)

  Irene.....

 Many thanks my brother is here and has seen it for the first time today.

 You have all done wonders with it.Yes a very sad story. Grandad never really knew him. Albert was working on the railway and was hit by a train that just came out of the fog.We spent 4 years looking for him on all the census but no luck. Only when we found the details of his death in the local paper did we find out why....his mother was a widow and had married the lodger...who we "think" was actually Albert father as they married shortly after his birth. Raised a few eyebrows with some of the older family members.



       My Thanks

              Tazzie

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: IgorStrav on Saturday 20 September 08 17:42 BST (UK)

I just wanted to say what a very handsome fellow, and what a very sad story.

There must have been many like that, with the dangerous jobs people did then, and the comparative youth of medical science.

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: Woodentop50 on Saturday 20 September 08 20:48 BST (UK)

Hello Tazzie,

Here's another coloured one for you.

                                                         Jim

Title: Re: Only known photo of Great Grandad..help!
Post by: tazzie on Saturday 20 September 08 21:36 BST (UK)

  Hi Igor ......

  He has a look about him doesn't he   Thank you.

  Hello Jim ......

  Looks good in colour.  Thank you so much.

                 Tazzie