London 94 years ago, Trafalgar Square intersection 1928. Image has been cleaned but the colour is original. Source in comments including the photographer and restorer

11 comments

1. Photographer – Clifton Royal Adams.

   Restorer, Babelcolour on twitter

   https://twitter.com/stuarthumphryes/status/1092058605401137152

2. I’d be fascinated to know more about the history of the photo. Colour photography was very much in its infancy at that time and capturing anything that wasn’t completely still should have been a complete nightmare! Best guess has to be Autochrome and a lucky set of circumstances and it’s a beautiful image.

3. Eerie to think WW2 was just over ten years out.

4. Like 90% of these, the “restoration” was lazy and full of errors. I’d say nice try but it wasn’t really. Just leave old photographs as-is, instead of turning them into oil paintings.

5. The year both my gran and gramp were born ❤️

6. That is some fantastic lens.

7. I have a neighbor being born in 1928. Kinda amazing how the world looked when she was born

8. Brilliant find, thanks for sharing it.

9. I was looking for the man on the Clapham Omnibus.

10. The year my grandmother was born. I’m 30 and my great grand parents were young adults in the 1890s. Crazy!

11. I’d call out fake. Bright sunny day, no depth of field. On second thoughts maybe not, movement of the policemans hand being the clue to a slow exposure.