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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Norma and Lionel need some help.
« on: Tuesday 08 September 15 18:00 BST (UK)  »
Me again George.  Another one for you.

Maggie  :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Norma and Lionel need some help.
« on: Tuesday 08 September 15 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Hello George.

Hope you don't mind but I've cropped the pic and concentrated on your Grandmother because I'm a bit short of time at the moment.   The first is an enlarged version so it's grainier, the second is the original size.

Perhaps I will finish the rest later.

Maggie  :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Ethel Graham and Gaston Huygens
« on: Saturday 05 September 15 18:09 BST (UK)  »
here is another one for you Tom.

Maggie  :)

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You are most welcome, kristiana, and a rather late welcome to RootsChat from me too.

Maggie  :)

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..... and another one......

Maggie

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The Lighter Side / Re: Reburial of Richard III
« on: Monday 30 March 15 20:51 BST (UK)  »
Somewhere - and I wish I could remember where - I  read that when the vault at Windsor of Edward IV and his wife Elizabeth Woodville was opened up (not sure when but not recently) apparently there were two unmarked lead coffins of children found in there.

Ah - found it.  The vault was opened in 1789.  There is more about it here in this article about Mary of York.  Scroll down to Death and Burial:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_York

and at the end of this article:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_V_of_England

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The Lighter Side / Re: Reburial of Richard III
« on: Monday 23 March 15 23:19 GMT (UK)  »
As another RootsChatter who is doing the same course as Groom I can also back her recommendation.  I've really learned a lot about Richard III and life in the 15th century, not just for the aristocracy but most importantly, the peasants too.  It has been great fun and good it will be repeated in the summer.

Maggie  :)

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The Lighter Side / Re: Reburial of Richard III
« on: Monday 23 March 15 09:04 GMT (UK)  »
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The Richard III Society was hell bent on proving that Richard III was not a hunchback. The discovery of his skeleton did prove that Richard had a badly distorted spine. 

Richard III was not definitely not a 'hunchback'.  He did however have a badly distorted spine due to a condition known as scoliosis that probably started to develop in his teens and over the course of several years caused a sideways twisting of his spine.  When Richard was dressed it would be most unlikely that this distortion would be noticed other that a slight dipping of one of his shoulders that would be barely noticeable given the fashions of the day.
A hunchback appearance is caused by a different condition - hyper-kyphosis, which is an excessive outward curve of the spine, and there was no sign of this in Richard's spine.  As far as I'm concerned I think that nothing untoward would have been noticed until after his death when he was stripped naked, slung over the back of a horse, abused and taken to Leicester.  Only then would it be noticed that his spine was not straight.  From this point onwards the diseased spine would be used as negative propaganda by his enemies.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Repair and date of Great Aunt Bess
« on: Thursday 22 January 15 23:24 GMT (UK)  »
..... and the second........

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