This is one of those pictures which will strike a chord with pretty much anyone born in the first half of the last century.
Not that this is some nostalgic journey when you get thirty gob stoppers for a penny, leave your front door unlocked and wagon wheels were the size of tractors.
It’s just a look at the world we have lost when there were fewer cars and houses seemed to be painted in standard colours.
Like those in the picture our house was painted in the same green and dark almost yellow cream.
Tradesmen still called at the door with an order and men seemed to wear long coats and hats.
All a bit of a cliché but with enough fact to make it accurate enough.And David who came across and the image and coloured it has added, "I do not have a date for the photo although my guess would be 1940's.
When I zoomed in on the original black and white picture I could see that the pub in the background, The Soldier Dick, was then a Gartsides house and would probably be painted green.
On the corner of Station Road is a sign pointing to Bell's Brewery's Station Hotel which is just around the corner.
Bell's was taken over by Robinson's in 1949 so the photo is probably earlier than that although signs sometimes lingered as you well know.
The phone box is the K1 cast concrete style introduced between 1920 and 1936. On the gable end above the phone box, an enamel sign advertises Lyon's Cakes."
There are plenty more examples of pictures Davod has digitally coloured in his facebook album, Digitally Coloured Photographs*
It comes from the latest edition of the newsletter of the Furness Vale History Society which I like even if I can’t get to their meetings.**
David will send out a regularly newsletter to anyone interested, just follow the link below.
And the next one promises to be interesting with Judith Wilshaw giving an illustrated talk on the Industrial Revolution and the Textile Industry, which fits nicely with the series on Images of our industrial past*** which along with some fascinating photographs of Trafford Park from my friend Sally includes some fine painting of textile mills by Peter Topping.
So that is about it really, the poster tells you all you need to know about the talk, and the links below will take you to the Furness Vale History Society and those stories of our lost industrial past.
Short sharp and to the point.
Pictures; courtesy of Furness Vale History Society
*You can find more of the images David has coloured in his facebook album, https://www.facebook.com/davideastonmodelmaking/media_set?set=a.10153406709529156.1073741836.620889155&type=3
**Furness Vale History Society, http://furnesshistory.blogspot.co.uk/
***Images of our industrial past
http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Images%20of%20our%20industrial%20past
It’s just a look at the world we have lost when there were fewer cars and houses seemed to be painted in standard colours.
Like those in the picture our house was painted in the same green and dark almost yellow cream.
All a bit of a cliché but with enough fact to make it accurate enough.And David who came across and the image and coloured it has added, "I do not have a date for the photo although my guess would be 1940's.
When I zoomed in on the original black and white picture I could see that the pub in the background, The Soldier Dick, was then a Gartsides house and would probably be painted green.
On the corner of Station Road is a sign pointing to Bell's Brewery's Station Hotel which is just around the corner.
Bell's was taken over by Robinson's in 1949 so the photo is probably earlier than that although signs sometimes lingered as you well know.
The phone box is the K1 cast concrete style introduced between 1920 and 1936. On the gable end above the phone box, an enamel sign advertises Lyon's Cakes."
There are plenty more examples of pictures Davod has digitally coloured in his facebook album, Digitally Coloured Photographs*
David will send out a regularly newsletter to anyone interested, just follow the link below.
And the next one promises to be interesting with Judith Wilshaw giving an illustrated talk on the Industrial Revolution and the Textile Industry, which fits nicely with the series on Images of our industrial past*** which along with some fascinating photographs of Trafford Park from my friend Sally includes some fine painting of textile mills by Peter Topping.
So that is about it really, the poster tells you all you need to know about the talk, and the links below will take you to the Furness Vale History Society and those stories of our lost industrial past.
Short sharp and to the point.
Pictures; courtesy of Furness Vale History Society
*You can find more of the images David has coloured in his facebook album, https://www.facebook.com/davideastonmodelmaking/media_set?set=a.10153406709529156.1073741836.620889155&type=3
***Images of our industrial past
http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Images%20of%20our%20industrial%20past
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