Co-host Adrian Chiles joined reporters Kate Garraway, Tasmin Khan and Steve Hargrave to reveal how they looked as kids.
We don't actually own our own photos, we simply look after them for future generations
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Christine Bleakley and fellow Daybreak stars reveal their old school photos
Co-host Adrian Chiles joined reporters Kate Garraway, Tasmin Khan and Steve Hargrave to reveal how they looked as kids.
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Photos Reunited launches UK Home Collection & Delivery Service
Photos Reunited, the UK based Digital Photo Scanning and Legacy Photo Storage Company has teamed up with national courier service, Yodel (http://www.yodel.co.uk/) to become the UK's first Photo Scanning company to offer its customers a dedicated Home Collection and delivery service using a fully tracked national courier.
Yodel is the new corporate identity for Home Delivery Network and Parcelpoint; a new business with experience and expertise in both the Business-to-Business and Consumer home delivery markets.
Photos Reunited customers now have the option to use a courier home collection service when they place their photo scanning order on the Photos Reunited website. Once the customer has placed their order they will receive by post a 'Legacy Photo Protect Pack' which is used to pack and send their photos, slides or negatives to the Photos Reunited Imaging Lab. The Legacy Photo Protect Pack will also include a pre-printed courier label attached to the outer postal package.
To arrange collection the customer simply contacts the Yodel Collection service, quoting their a unique order number to arrange a convenient time for home collection or they can arrange a collection time using the innovative Yodel Online portal.
To arrange collection the customer simply contacts the Yodel Collection service, quoting their a unique order number to arrange a convenient time for home collection or they can arrange a collection time using the innovative Yodel Online portal.
Every parcel is fully tracked from the moment it is collected at the customer’s door step until it arrives safely at its final destination. Progress of individual tracked parcels can be monitored by the customer by entering the unique parcel number into the Yodel website.
“Photos Reunited is a totally service concentric company and so we are constantly looking for new ways in which we can improve our overall service offering and delivery” Pete Boswell, Founder, Photos Reunited Limited.
“First and foremost our customers need to trust the services we offer, which includes the methods by which they choose to send their precious and valuable photos to our UK Labs for processing. We believe that the Yodel home collection courier service sets our business apart from any other UK photo scanning services and provides our customers with a method of collection and delivery that they can trust and have complete confidence in”
The Photos Reunited home courier collection and delivery service costs only £6.50 with each order, a very small price to pay for that added confidence and peace of mind.
Further details about the home courier collection service can be found along with details of all the products and services offered by Photos Reunited on their website (www.photosreunited.com)
Monday, 8 August 2011
Restore your Memories
Photographs are a brilliant way of keeping those treasured memories of bygone times. But like anything pictures can get damaged. When this happens they usually get thrown in a drawer or in a box never to see the light of day again.
Well all is not lost with today's technology it is possible to bring these treasured memories back to life. This process is known as Photo Restoration this can be done in various ways but the safest and most effective way is to have them restored digitally.
The process consists of of taking the original photo and scanning the image into a computer. Once this has been done the original is no longer required and this gets stored away in a container lined with acid free paper to prevent any harm coming to the picture. Then the creative process takes place.
Now there is a scanned fresh image to work on the photograph can start to be brought back to life. This is when the Restorer takes time to manually restore the elements of the picture. taking out all the damaged areas by hand and rebuilding the photograph back up to to a standard that often supersedes the quality of when it was first taken.
Once all repairs have been made it then possible to work even more magic and take the image a step further and introduce colour, if it was a black & white or sepia image. Items can be removed or added to the picture making family members appear as a whole when originally they were not present. To do this a second photo is needed so that the family members that are missing from the group shot can be added in all their full glory. There are many other things that can be done upon request.
For more information or if there are any treasured Photographs you want Restoring or Enhancing then visit
www.restor8designsolutions.co.ukWell all is not lost with today's technology it is possible to bring these treasured memories back to life. This process is known as Photo Restoration this can be done in various ways but the safest and most effective way is to have them restored digitally.
The process consists of of taking the original photo and scanning the image into a computer. Once this has been done the original is no longer required and this gets stored away in a container lined with acid free paper to prevent any harm coming to the picture. Then the creative process takes place.
Now there is a scanned fresh image to work on the photograph can start to be brought back to life. This is when the Restorer takes time to manually restore the elements of the picture. taking out all the damaged areas by hand and rebuilding the photograph back up to to a standard that often supersedes the quality of when it was first taken.
Once all repairs have been made it then possible to work even more magic and take the image a step further and introduce colour, if it was a black & white or sepia image. Items can be removed or added to the picture making family members appear as a whole when originally they were not present. To do this a second photo is needed so that the family members that are missing from the group shot can be added in all their full glory. There are many other things that can be done upon request.
For more information or if there are any treasured Photographs you want Restoring or Enhancing then visit
Friday, 29 July 2011
Images from history: Rarely seen photographs bring 1800s London back to life
In the frantic pace of modern life, it is easy to forget our past, and the toils of the generations before us who built the world we live in.
But for those familiar with our capital city, these fascinating pictures taken when photography was in its infancy will bring back to life a London which has changed so much over the last 150 years.
They capture sweaty, mustachioed long-dead engineers working hard to bring the world's first Underground network to life; they capture the hippo who entertained Londoners and visitors alike during his 30 years' lodgings at Regent's Park; they capture long-past shops and factories; they even capture the construction of one of England's most famous monuments, Nelson's Column, back in 1844.
Further afield, there are pictures of Italy, America, Japan and Egypt, all taken more than 100 years ago.
The British Library holds 350,000 historic pictures in its vaults, and for the first time ever it is running an exhibition of these rarely seen pictures, which will open in October.
There are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was. Here we see the creation of the Central Line in 1898
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204508/Images-history-Rarely-seen-photographs-bring-1800s-London-life.html#ixzz1TUBgT1XY
Old class photos damaged
Unfortunately, many of Corning High School's alumni class pictures are in pretty bad shape after being left in storage during the past 10 years.
"Many of them have water and mildew damage, some of the frames and glass were broken from being moved around," said Sally Tollison, high school counselor.
Tollison and several others from the school and community have taken on the project of restoring the old pictures, but have run into funding and other roadblocks.
"We want to see them again hanging in the school, where they document the past, and where today's, and future students at Corning High School can see the school's commitment to the past and understand that same commitment applies to the future," Tollison said.
The pictures, dating from 1918 to 2000, had been displayed throughout the school until 2000, when the framed pictures had to be removed for the school's remodeling and new co struction project.
Since then, the pictures have been stored in the school's bus barn and other areas on campus, where they suffered damage from moisture and handling.
But now, all of the alumni pictures have been found, and are again under one roof, in a safe, dry area of the bus barn where they await restoration.
"It has turned out to be an enormous project, much more than we initially anticipated," Tollison said.
A couple of photographers and studios in the area were asked to consider the restoration, and all came back with the same response, "too big a project."
Tollison said that outcome left those interested in the restoration with two big, unanswered questions.
"We had to figure out who could do the restoration project, and how to pay for it to be accomplished," she explained.
Unfettered, they put the problem before the Corning Union High School Board of Trustees.
"The board realized the value of restoring the pictures, but with the school suffering from state budget cuts, they also realized the district couldn't afford the cost of the project," Tollison said.
What the board did agree to fund, was having someone organize and catalogue the work that needed to be done, and pay for the materials to hang the pictures once they are restored.
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
PEEK INTO THE PAST: Transport hub of Burnley town centre
OLD photos of the most familiar parts of Burnley town centre are very popular with readers of this series. I get the most questions and comments about this part of town so am always careful to be as accurate as possible with views like the one today.
As you can see, the image is of the part of St James’s Street, now pedestrianised, but formerly the bus station and, before that, the main stopping place for the trams. In fact, in this picture, something of the tram era survives though buses have taken over.
In the middle of the photo notice the clock. This, for many years, in both the tram and bus eras, was very much part of Burnley centre. It was vital for telling the time in an age when not everyone had their own watch and this clock regulated, in their days, the tram and bus timetables. Lots of Burnley people, and doubtless those from outside town, arranged to meet under the famous clock attached to the office of Burnley’s Tramways Department.
In the photo, if you look carefully, you will notice some of the buses are awaiting new passengers while parked at pedestrian islands. These islands were created in the tram era and it was once a common sight for as many as four trams to be parked next to each other in this part of St James’s Street. The street itself had been designed to be wider than the rest of the highway and it was here t Burnley’s Open Market was held once it had moved from Church Street in the 18th Century.
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Monday, 25 July 2011
Beatles' 1st US concert photos fetch $360,000
The Beatles perform on stage during their first tour of the US in these photographs taken by Mike Mitchell and auctioned by Christie's in New York on Wednesday. Mike Mitchell / Christie's Handout via Reuters
In 1964, an enterprising 18-year-old snapped pictures of the Beatles' momentous first US concert in Washington.
On Wednesday, Christie's auction house said it sold 50 silver gelatin prints that the photographer, Mike Mitchell, made from the negatives for $361,938. The images, plus photos from another Beatles concert, had been estimated to fetch a total of $100,000.
The Beatles played their first US concert at the Washington Coliseum on February 11, 1964, two days after their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Mike Mitchell was there, shooting photos from just a meter away and even jumping onto the stage for the group's pre-concert press call.
Among the highlights is a backlit shot of the band that he took while standing directly behind them. It sold on Wednesday for $68,500 - its pre-sale estimate was $2,000 to $3,000.
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