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Dream, Grimsby (2026)

15/02/2022

As it's been such a horrible, cold, and wet day I hunkered down, put my headphones on, and colourised another photo. I've often seen photos of Buffalo Bill Cody as an older gentleman but never as a young man until I came upon this one of him taken in 1864 aged 19.I have to say, he was a handsome fella.
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in modern-day Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory.
Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the US Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872.
One of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill's legend began to spread when he was only 23. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and continental Europe.

02/02/2022

I haven't done one of these in quite some time. This is my colourisation of this 1951 photo of Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) who was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Pl***oy Playmate. A s*x symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts. Her film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. She married three times, all of which ended in divorce, and had five children. She was allegedly intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy.
On June 29, 1967, she died in an automobile accident in Eastern New Orleans at the age of 34.😔

11/07/2020

A colourisation I have finished today of a circa 1960 photo of Miss Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) who is an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977). She is also known for her performances in Woody Allen's Another Woman (1988), and her son, Nick Cassavetes' film, The Notebook (2004). In November 2015, Rowlands received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her unique screen performances.😊

29/06/2020

My colourisation of this 1960 photo of the beautiful Miss Claudia Cardinale (born 15 April 1938) who is an Italian Tunisian film actress and movie icon who starred in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in many English-language films. From 1963, Cardinale became known in the United States and Britain following her role in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. For several years, she appeared in Hollywood films such as Blindfold (1965), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), The Hell with Heroes (1968), and the Sergio Leone epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Outspoken on women's rights causes over the years, Cardinale has been a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since March 2000. In February 2011, the Los Angeles Times Magazine named Cardinale among the 50 most beautiful women in film history.😊

27/06/2020

A colourisation I recently completed from an article about a gentleman by the name of Horace Warner who was an amateur photographer. Warner befriended and photographed those living in the shadow of the Bishopsgate goods yard, some of the poorest people in London at the beginning of the 20th Century. Warner took many pictures, and for more than a century, these images were not seen by anyone outside his family. As a Quaker, Warner believed in social equality and that the divine was in everyone. He was disturbed by the suffering he encountered in the East End. At the time, one in five children in Spitalfields did not survive until adulthood, but research reveals that among the poorest families, the mortality rate in the area was closer to a third.

Shamefully, more than a century later, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where most of his images were taken, has the highest level of child poverty in Britain. This particular photo is of a young girl by the name of Adelaide Springett who was born in February 1893 in Wapping, both her parents were street sellers. Adelaide’s twin sisters, Ellen and Margaret, died at birth; another sister, Susannah, died aged four. Adelaide’s last known address was recorded in 1901 when, aged eight, she lodged with her mother at a Salvation Army shelter. I pray she managed to make it to adulthood and lived a long and happy life.😊🙏

25/06/2020

A colourisation I recently completed of George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. On this day in 1876 the Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, started between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in the southeastern Montana Territory. The fight was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, who were led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, and had been inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull with a strength of between 1,500 – 2,500 warriors against the U.S.Cavalrys 700 cavalrymen and scouts. Five of the 7th Cavalry's twelve companies were annihilated and Custer was killed, as were two of his brothers, a nephew and a brother-in-law. The total U.S. casualty count included 268 dead and 55 severely wounded (six died later from their wounds). Native American casualties were 31 (up to 135) killed and up to 160 wounded. This photo of Custer was taken in New York in April 1876 so is possibly the last one ever taken of him.

22/06/2020

A colourisation I finished today of this 1959 photo of the beautiful Miss Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton; September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) who was a Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer.She began working in motion pictures in 1941and obtained her breakthrough role in Salome, Where She Danced (1945), a Universal Pictures release produced by Walter Wanger, who described her as "the most beautiful girl in the world."The film's publicity and success turned her into a star, and she signed a five-year contract with Universal. From then on, Universal starred her in its lavish Technicolor productions, such as Frontier Gal (1945), Song of Scheherazade (1947), and Slave Girl (1947). Cameramen voted her "Queen of Technicolor" three years in a row. Her career reached its peak when eminent producer-director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Moses' wife, Sephora, her most prominent role, in his biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), which was immensely successful at the box office and remains an annual tradition on television. She gained a new generation of fans as a star of the CBS sitcom The Munsters (1964–1966), playing Herman Munster's glamorous vampire wife, Lily, a role she reprised in the feature film Munster, Go Home! (1966) and the television film The Munsters' Revenge (1981). De Carlo died of heart failure in 2007. She was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures and television.

19/06/2020

A colourisation of a Miss Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She was also a singer and nightclub entertainer as well as one of the early Pl***oy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood s*x symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox. Mansfield's film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe. She was married and divorced three times and had five children. She allegedly was intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy.
In 1967, Mansfield was in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club. After two appearances on the evening of June 28, Mansfield, Sam Brody (her attorney and companion), their driver Ronnie Harrison (age 20), and three of her children— Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska—left Biloxi after midnight in a 1966 Buick Electra 225. Their destination was New Orleans, where Mansfield was to appear on WDSU's Midday Show the next day. At about 2:25 a.m., on U.S. Highway 90 west of the Rigolets Bridge, the Buick crashed at high speed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed behind a truck spraying mosquito fogger shrouded in an insecticide fog. The three adults in the front seat died instantly. The children, asleep in the rear seat, survived with minor injuries.
Reports that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma
One of her children is actress Mariska Hargitay, best known for her role as New York Police Department Captain Olivia Benson on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
This photo shows Miss Mansfield in the gown she wore to meet Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.

14/06/2020

A colourisation I have just completed of a circa 1940 photo of Miss Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) who was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II. Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. She is also known for her performances in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Pal Joey (1957), and Separate Tables (1958). Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, You'll Never Get Rich (1941), and You Were Never Lovelier (1942), once called her his favourite dance partner.
She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey.
In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew attention to Alzheimer's, which was largely unknown by most people at the time, and helped to increase public and private funding for Alzheimer's research.

11/06/2020

I was recently asked by an old workmate if I could colourise this photo of his Father-in-Law as a young lad. The photo was taken in his parents garden at 12 Chelmsford Avenue, Grimsby. It was a little hard to do as it is actually a photo of a newspaper clipping, but I don't think it turned out too bad. My thanks to Graham Walker for allowing me to share this.😊

01/06/2020

A colourisation I have just finished of a 1959 self-portrait of American photographer and model Miss Linnea Eleanor "Bunny" Yeager. (March 13, 1929 – May 25, 2014). She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her family moved to Florida when she was 17. She adopted the nickname "Bunny" from Lana Turner's character Bunny Smith in the 1945 movie Week-End at the Waldorf. She won numerous local beauty pageants and became one of the most photographed models in Miami. Photos of Yeager appeared in over 300 newspapers and magazines. She designed and produced hundreds of bikinis when the two-piece swimsuit was a new fashion item and is credited with its popularity in America. Yeager took up photography and was a very prolific and successful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s. The famous still images she took of Ursula Andress emerging from the water on the beach in Jamaica for the 1962 James Bond film Dr No are probably her best-known bikini photographs. Yeager's obituary in The Miami Herald called her "one of the country’s most famous and influential photographers. She died aged 85
in North Miami, Florida.😊

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