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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: PeeCeeBee on Sunday 23 December 18 01:11 GMT (UK)
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These photos have been sent to me as possible VICKERY family photos.
Can this have a tidy up please.
Thanks in anticipation
PCB
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A b&w attempt but not very good:
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And the other one:
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Thankyou japeflakes... unfortunately they have deteriorated greatly and I have scanned from the original!!!
Cheers
PCB
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My efforts at the first one.
Peter
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Now you are cooking with gas PCB. This showed up as 200dpi on my computer.
Lovely photo - I am so out of practice but it was nice to have a little play. I didn't copy yours McGroger - it just looks very similar!!
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Not brilliant I know - but . . . . fun - hard to make out the top/crown of the hat - but I see others have had the same problem. ;)
(and some of the marks on her face weren't there when I finished cleaning her - they have come back - :'( :'( )
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Nice work, Wiggy.
And here's my effort at the second one.
Peter
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Many, many thanks... these have made the images clearer and hopefully I can identify them eventually!
I appreciate the efforts of you all.
And Wiggy, I have managed to find the settings and the next lot are at 300 dpi...
Thanks for the tutoring on private message.
Cheers
PCB
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Some thoughts on the soldier.
As this portrait was among possible VICKERY photos, I have taken some leaps of assumption.
Likely he was related to VICKERY and had their surname.
Alan John VICKERY was the son of Joseph and Emily VICKERY and grandson of Ebenezer VICKERY.
Enlisted aged 20 .He was awarded The Military Medal.
The picture looks like a 20 year old with blue eyes which fits the description in his military record.
The photograph was taken at the Eden Studios which was an extremely upmarket establishment. The VICKERYs were wealthy business people capable of patronising such a place.
Here is newspaper picture of Joseph VICKERY, the father of the soldier taken in more recent times and published in 1930 when he died.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16673671
Information about these people can be found in Trove Newspaper Archive and National Archives of Australia.
Sue
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Many thanks Sue... I finally managed to get into some more research and your comments all make sense to me... yes this was a wealthy family, so that fits with the upmarket photography establishment... I have been checking the various photos of Joseph Vickery etc and managing to build more detail into this branch of the family.
Regards
PCB