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Offline griz

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Amazing old Russian photographs.
« on: Friday 20 August 10 23:30 BST (UK) »
  I thought these amazing pictures would be of interest to everyone so I posted them here.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
Boyle, Co. Leitrim  Boyle, Co. Tyrone, Shaughnessy, Co. Limerick, and  Manchester, UK.  Pope, Cheshire. Chadwick, Speke, Lancs.  Frankish, Hunmanby, Yorks.  Brindley, Audley, Staffs and  Middlesex.

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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:06 BST (UK) »
They are stunning - hard to believe they're 100 years old

Thanks for sharing this   :D

Linda

PS just goes to show the world wasn't black & white then after all!
MOXHAM/MOXAM - Wiltshire & Surrey
SKEATS - Surrey
BRETT - Kent & County Durham
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SWINBANK - anywhere

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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:09 BST (UK) »
Those really are brilliant.

Thanks for the link.

Nick
McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen

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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:15 BST (UK) »
amazing pics...thanks for posting the link :)
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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:20 BST (UK) »
thanks.... absolutely stunning ....  it was interesting to see places that I dimly remember in British history, such as the Silk Road which I think went to/from Samarkand
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:44 BST (UK) »
Absolutely fascinating...thanks for posting the link ;D

Joy :) :)
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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:45 BST (UK) »
thank you for sharign them with us
Thomas Kelly   Peterheadknown as Tom son know as tommy
James Kelly Bellshill
Williaminia Kell nee Barclay peterhead/ Leeds ?
Martha Daze Edinburgh
Jessie Cussie Peterhead
Isabella Barclay  Lonmay? possible know as Isobella Cassie at some time as well
William Barclay Banffsh
John Carson 1821  Cambusland aged 60
Elisabeth wife daughter Also Elisabeth who married James Kelly and had 6 children
sarah kelly 13
thomas kelly 11
John kelly  10
Richard Kelly  6  Martha Kelly 1 became M Daze

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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 21 August 10 00:52 BST (UK) »
Not as old [1930s] but also interesting, early Kodachromes from the US.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/
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Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Amazing old Russian photographs.
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 21 August 10 01:17 BST (UK) »
Thank you griz and Erato. Just wonderful.....
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