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I colourise black and white photos to bring English history to life. I do not own images posted and credit owners where possible.

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A chimney sweep aged three working in 1933. #chimneysweep #1930s #childlabour #colourised
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#London in 1948
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Brunel's great suspension bridge in Clifton, Bristol, 1908. #colourised #clifton #bristol #brunel #IsambardKingdomBrunel
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The streets of Manchester, c1901. #manchester #oldengland #1900s
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London's Westminster Bridge and Buckingham Palace, c1940. #westminsterbridge #1940s #oldlondon #buckinghampalace #ww2 #WWII
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Getting the train at London's Waterloo in the 30s. #waterloo #londonwaterloo #waterloostation #1930s
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A street knife grinder sharpens a lady's blade, in London, 1928. #1920s #colourised #streetvideo #knifegrinder #oldlondon
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A busy street scene outside London's Empire Theatre in 1896. #empiretheatre #leicestersquare #london #victorians #colourised
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Children from Plaistow in east London, 1904. #eastlondon #plaistow #edwardianchildren #colourised
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A Northumbrian coalminer eating with his wife in 1937. #northumbria #1930s #coalminer #colourised
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The people of London in 1918. #oldlondon #1910s #englishhistory
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A group of Teddy boys in the streets of Elephant and Castle, London, in 1955. #teddyboys #1950s #elephantandcastle #london
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London in the 1970s. #london #1970s #the70s
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A brief snapshot of life in London in 1918... #london #oldlondon #colourised #englishhistory
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London life during the 1950s. #london #1950s
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A Kodachrome of Piccadilly Circus by night, 1965. #piccadillycircus #london #kodachrome #1960s
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Driving through old London in the 50s. #london #oldlondon #1950s #colourised
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A British soldier dressed as Father Christmas on a London street in December 1940. #santa #fatherchristmas #thefoties #the40s #ww2 #wwII
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Travelling through London in 1967. #1960s #swingingsixties #oldlondon
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Bobbies on the streets of London in 1961. #bobbies #metpolice #london #1960s
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An iconic photograph of a London milkman in 1940. #ww2 #wwII #1940s #milkman #london #englishhistory
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Regent Street, London, in 1953. #regentstreet #oldlondon #1950s
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Driving around London in the 60s. #london #swingingsixties #1960s
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A mother and daughter watch a tall ship navigate the Thames in London, 1880. #riverthames #london #colourised #tallship #victorians
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A female train conductor in London 1916, with men off to war. #ww1 #wwI #greatwar #westernfront #feminism #colourised
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A woman makes a purchase from an ice cream seller in London, c1935. #icecream #1930s #london #colourised #streetvendors
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The streets of London in the Victorian period, c1900. #victorianera #victorians #streetvideo #1900s
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A rare photo of a 21-year-old Winston Churchill in the uniform of the Fourth Queens Own Hussars, in 1895. #churchill #winstonchurchill #victorianperiod #colourised
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Suited up for a midday stroll, in 1915. #englishhistory #dogwalking #suitedandbooted #1915
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Kensington today is considered one of London's most affluent areas but in 1868 when this photograph was taken it was a ghetto for the poor and destitute. #kensington #victorianperiod #colourised
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Ladies on motorbikes in the 1930s. #colourised #1930s #motorbikes
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Old London – can any sleuths work out the year? #london #oldlondon #englishhistory
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The wartime weekly food ration for two people in Britain, 1943. #ww2 #wwII #1940s #foodrations #englishhistory #wartime
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Commuters heading to work in the City of London, 1961. #london #londoncity #1960s #thesixties #commuterlife
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Edwardian-era England in 1903. #oldengland #1900s #edwardianperiod
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A poverty-stricken mother and her six barefoot children making hairbrushes in a common lodging room in Spitalfields – in one of London's most notorious slums, c1902 #spitalfields
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Hop pickers use stilts on a farm at Wateringbury in Kent, 1928. #wateringbury #kent #1920s #hoppicking #hoppickers #farmlife
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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub – one of Charles Dickens' favourites – on Fleet St London (date unknown). #yeoldecheshirecheese #fleetstreet
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London construction workers take a lunch break in 1929. #colourised #1920s #construction #englishbuilders
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Edwardians are intrigued by the camera filming them in 1903. #edwardianera #streetfilmography #colourised #edwardians
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A young boy reads a comic outside the bakery in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1954. #westmidlands #comics #1950s #stratforduponavon #colourised
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Rescued East African slaves taken from a dhow aboard British naval ship HMS Daphne. They were freed from Arab slave traders in 1868. #hmsdaphne #slavetrade
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Londoners at the market, c1900. #london #oldlondon #marketlife
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On the Strand near Charing Cross in London, the ladies hold up their skirts to stop their dresses getting wet in the puddles, while the gentlemen walk on the roadside to protect them from splashes, c1900. (c) Museum of London, Heritage Images, science Photo Library
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Londoners take shelter in the Underground during the Blitz, 1940. #ww2 #wwII #theblitz #1940s #londonunderground
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Earliest known original colour film of London, shot in 1924. #london #oldlondon #thetwenties #twenties
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Tower Bridge opens up for a boat to travel the River Thames in 1928. #riverthames #london #1920s #colourised #englishhistory
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Cosmopolitan Soho in London, 1956. #soho #london #1950s
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