Old England in Colour
@englandincolour
I colourise black and white photos to bring English history to life. I do not own images posted and credit owners where possible.
Men sleeping rough in Green Park, London, 1902 Pic: Jack London.
People in front of a rag shop in Lambeth, London, where the Thames annual tidal overflow causes hardship to the locals in 1877.
The 1905 FA Cup Final – Newcastle v Aston Villa.
A Bactrian camel earns its keep at London Zoo in 1900.
Mush-Fakers and ginger beer makers with their cart in 1877.
Paddington Station just before the start of WW1 in 1914. Approximately 20,000 British Railway workers were to lose their lives –100,000 enlisted when war broke out.
A garden party at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London in 1921.
View east along Aldford Street, Mayfair, shot by Chalmers Butterfield on Kodachrome colour film, in 1949.
King George V and his physically similar cousin Tsar Nicholas II in German military uniforms in 1913.
The 'first' selfie stick taken in Rugby, Warwickshire in 1925.
Englishman Charlie Chaplin from his 1915 film 'A Night in the Show' colourised.
On the Strand near Charing Cross in London, the ladies hold up their skirts to stop their dresses getting wet in the puddles.
Winston Churchill with a Tommy Gun during an inspection near Hartlepool in 1940.
The construction of Manchester ship canal in 1889.
