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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Identification of person in photo please
« on: Wednesday 08 July 20 03:24 BST (UK) »
I am also putting up a pic of Brian Johnson for comparison same as I am for the family.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Identification of person in photo please
« on: Wednesday 08 July 20 03:00 BST (UK) »
That was clever, Ian, makes him look quite plausible!! What can be done with photo editing!!
I am sending him round the family to see what they think, two of them at least were around and about at the time. Though they are convinced it was a cricket commentator or someone like that, I am more open.
It was someone we saw regularly on TV I am sure of that.
I am sending him round the family to see what they think, two of them at least were around and about at the time. Though they are convinced it was a cricket commentator or someone like that, I am more open.
It was someone we saw regularly on TV I am sure of that.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Identification of person in photo please
« on: Tuesday 07 July 20 03:21 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for the interest. Sorry no prizes for correct guess!!
The person to whom this photo belonged was a water keeper on the River Test in Hampshire. As part of his job he had taken this person dry fly fishing for trout. I know this photo was taken for him as the person concerned was well known and also they had had a good day. The photo came to us after he died in 1973. We just cannot remember who he was after all these years! Nothing was written on the back - did not expect to forget a well known person!
I don't think it is Hugh Greene, what a force for change he was.
Percy Thrower would have interested the owner of the photo, but I am not at all sure.
I would say definitely not Donald Campbell, not the type, too adventurous for a quiet day on the river perhaps.
Barry Bucknell is a possibility but there seems too much hair for the time of the photo. That can go quickly though as I expect some on Rootschat would agree! Does not seem his thing though and this person is a fisherman from his clothes.
Family guesses are someone to do with cricket or Brian Johnson. Not sure of either of those either. Something to do with cricket is plausible as someone in the village was connected with cricket and often brought people down, players and commentators. Not necessarily so perhaps.
Driving us mad, we should know!!
The person to whom this photo belonged was a water keeper on the River Test in Hampshire. As part of his job he had taken this person dry fly fishing for trout. I know this photo was taken for him as the person concerned was well known and also they had had a good day. The photo came to us after he died in 1973. We just cannot remember who he was after all these years! Nothing was written on the back - did not expect to forget a well known person!
I don't think it is Hugh Greene, what a force for change he was.
Percy Thrower would have interested the owner of the photo, but I am not at all sure.
I would say definitely not Donald Campbell, not the type, too adventurous for a quiet day on the river perhaps.
Barry Bucknell is a possibility but there seems too much hair for the time of the photo. That can go quickly though as I expect some on Rootschat would agree! Does not seem his thing though and this person is a fisherman from his clothes.
Family guesses are someone to do with cricket or Brian Johnson. Not sure of either of those either. Something to do with cricket is plausible as someone in the village was connected with cricket and often brought people down, players and commentators. Not necessarily so perhaps.
Driving us mad, we should know!!
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Identification of person in photo please
« on: Monday 06 July 20 13:28 BST (UK) »
Thanks for trying to help.
He had been fishing for trout in the River Test that day and the photo was probably taken afterwards by again probably a fellow trout fisherman.
The River Test fishing was by invitation of the owner of that stretch of the river. Usually well off folk or well known.
He had been fishing for trout in the River Test that day and the photo was probably taken afterwards by again probably a fellow trout fisherman.
The River Test fishing was by invitation of the owner of that stretch of the river. Usually well off folk or well known.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Identification of person in photo please
« on: Monday 06 July 20 09:45 BST (UK) »
Thank you. I had a good look, Trystan, but he is too late as you say. This photo was taken in the 1960’s. He was more or less middle aged then.
As you say he is quite a musician.
As you say he is quite a musician.
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Longstock and Leckford Schools
« on: Monday 06 July 20 02:08 BST (UK) »
Thank you Chempat for introducing me to the Facebook page of Stockbridge and District social history group. It is very interesting, full of old photos of places I know. Geoff Merrett who runs it is very helpful and has passed on to me copies of a couple of documents that were most intriguing.
As you said Chempat, they say 1931. So I am still not sure!!!
In one article it says that the infants were not sent to Stockbridge for a while to allow the older ones to settle in. Do not know how long that was, but it could account for the differences in dates. 1931 may have seen the last of the Longstock children going to Stockbridge. Still a bit of a gap though.
Would have been a long walk for little legs from Longstock and Leckford to Stockbridge. Some may have had bikes, but those were a big purchase for farm workers children, in other words most of them, during the Depression.
But then we walked from village to village those days anyway, little legs would have had to do that as well.
As you said Chempat, they say 1931. So I am still not sure!!!
In one article it says that the infants were not sent to Stockbridge for a while to allow the older ones to settle in. Do not know how long that was, but it could account for the differences in dates. 1931 may have seen the last of the Longstock children going to Stockbridge. Still a bit of a gap though.
Would have been a long walk for little legs from Longstock and Leckford to Stockbridge. Some may have had bikes, but those were a big purchase for farm workers children, in other words most of them, during the Depression.
But then we walked from village to village those days anyway, little legs would have had to do that as well.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Identification of person in photo please
« on: Monday 06 July 20 01:32 BST (UK) »
Can anyone help me identify the man in this photo please. I am sure he is a British TV personality, I know his face but cannot put a name to him. I am pretty certain the person has passed away. Photo date is probably 1965/70. The photo has a connection for a late member of the family. My thanks.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Probably Winifred and George Howell Can anyone date this photo please
« on: Sunday 28 June 20 03:58 BST (UK) »
Thanks. It is the long skirt that made me think it might be earlier. They did go on for a while. Could well be 1922 then, there was a wedding in the family around that time, could have been that.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Probably Winifred and George Howell Can anyone date this photo please
« on: Friday 26 June 20 09:18 BST (UK) »
They were born and lived all their lives in the Test Valley. If I can find out roughly when it was taken I can work out roughly where.
Sorry Jim1 - no back, not mine.
Certainly they are in their best clothes, not workaday ones. So Sunday, holiday or an event. They were ordinary villagers if that helps. Lovely folk.
Sorry Jim1 - no back, not mine.
Certainly they are in their best clothes, not workaday ones. So Sunday, holiday or an event. They were ordinary villagers if that helps. Lovely folk.