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Revealed: Britain in Color Displayed for the Very First Time

dailymail.co.uk — At the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited - to black and white images, with various shades of gray in between. Now, for the first time ever, vivid vintage pictures of a world still largely unexplored ( in color ) were revealed to a mesmerized public.

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  • gbudavid, on 04/27/2008, -62/+14I always thought of England as rather Colorless;))
    • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -40/+9It's Britain or the UK, not England.
      • hamdevguru, on 04/27/2008, -3/+22What?!
      • consoneo, on 04/27/2008, -4/+3Britannia? Oh, the good old days...
        • kelstock, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0Ultima reference?! U7 was up there with the greatest RPG's of all time
      • hiro, on 04/27/2008, -3/+50Those pictures were taken in England - which is part of Britain. Where we also spell "colourless" correctly.
        • bagelmaster, on 04/27/2008, -26/+6Americans beg to differ.
          • Jholder112233, on 04/27/2008, -11/+41Well its ENGLISH language, so we'll decide the spelling thanks.
          • Fozefy, on 04/27/2008, -3/+20Canada Agrees with Britain.
          • ayeroxor, on 04/27/2008, -11/+5Jholder: We've moderniZed it for you. As much as you disparage the French, why are you so married to their spellings? You certainly don't pronounce them the French way. Why bother spelling them that way?
          • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1No, *****. You've raped it.
          • MasterQ, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2lets break this down... color or colour? O-R makes the "or" sound, which has the same phonetic sound as the word, and O-U-R makes the "ower"-like sound, which sounds nothing like the word. So is it color or colower? It's sad when the language is named after ur country and u can't spell the words correctly.

            Hmm... CANADA agrees with you? ORLY? well now, that changes everything because we all know how much weight canada's opinion has behind it. If we don't start spelling color with a U we might get slashed with a hockey stick lol...

            Colonies - 2, Red Coats - 0, and Canada is sitting quietly on the bench
          • mediaphile, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1@MasterQ: I was with you until you started using "u" and "ORLY".
        • Muncher, on 04/27/2008, -8/+5I assume you made fun of his (perfectly acceptable) spelling rather than his (completely wrong) capitalization to make the point that you're a total prick?
        • rory2267, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4i take pride in being British
        • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2Me too. Can't beat washing down a good old rape, murder and pillaging session with a cup of tea and crumpets on a Sunday afternoon.
      • birdieb23, on 04/27/2008, -5/+4England is Britain and the UK, we're the ones in charge.
      • Belldanime, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2I always thought they were interchangeable terms.
        • TonyLocNE, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4No they're not.. England, Scotland, Wales, and I believe Northern Ireland (correct me if I'm wrong) compose the United Kingdom..
          • gudnbluts, on 04/27/2008, -2/+4Yes, but in this case, they are interchangeable. The pictures are all of England, which is part of Britain, which is part of the UK, so using any of those names is correct in this case.
      • TonyLocNE, on 04/27/2008, -1/+6Alright lads, there's no reason to get into a bit of an argy-bargy and throw a wobbly over a couple pictures, now is there? You Brits are bloody-minded and us Americans are a wee too gormless, so let's just agree to disagree eh mates? So keep your pecker up and don't get your knickers in a twist.

        /***** I love the internet..
      • gudnbluts, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2You're just plain wrong. Every picture in there is of England.
        • ayeroxor, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2Every picture of anything ANYWHERE is of England. Go colonialism!
          • TonyLocNE, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1This IS ENGLAND!!
            *Actually a really good movie with a coincidental title that makes it sound like something off of 300.
    • smallSHEEP, on 04/27/2008, -6/+63Beautiful images, it's a shame the source is quite frankly the worst, most linguistically deprived, xenophobic *****-stain of a ‘newspaper’ ever to grace the surface of this planet. Is there any way of automatically filtering Daily Mail links as spam?
      • ff2k, on 04/27/2008, -0/+13I couldn't agree with you more.
        • Elissar, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Then you're not trying hard enough...
      • citydragon, on 04/27/2008, -2/+2You read the Guardian?
      • saffrononyx, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4Daily Heil.
      • solid12345, on 04/27/2008, -10/+13Yet this "xenophobic" Daily Mail wants to preserve the UK and save it from being overrun by 3rd worlders who are turning beautiful London into a dilapidated ghetto city.

        It is not racist to preserve one's culture and heritage. You don't see the Japanese or Chinese blindly letting in millions of immigrants to reshape their culture, and why should they, or why should Europe for the matter. Letting in workers to WORK is one thing, but letting in freeloaders to go on welfare and spit out children who run wild and riot in the streets is another.
        • theboywonder, on 04/27/2008, -4/+7Yeah, because all children born of British/English parents are so well behaved!

          /end sarcasm.

          Get real.
        • ayeroxor, on 04/27/2008, -3/+5So sad your fair opinion is being buried. Don't bother coming to America either. Our PC-ness will leave English speakers a minority in 10 years.
      • GeekyGerge, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3"Kinghtsbridge"
        Point Proven.
      • dorkdork777, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1There is a way of auto-burying Daily Mail stories -
        http://tinyurl.com/3pxvar
    • ClevelandBrown, on 04/27/2008, -7/+1honestly, how could you be more of a tool, it says Britain in the goddamn title
      • gudnbluts, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1How is it being a tool? It is England. He would been equally right to say "The UK" or "Britain", but it's every bit as valid to say England.
  • dtele, on 04/27/2008, -3/+12Amazing.
    I expect those were 8 x 10 contact prints ? Anyone ?
  • miranda622, on 04/27/2008, -0/+45Those are beautiful... and I never knew you could use potatoes to colorize photographs! You learn something new every day.
  • threemagic, on 04/27/2008, -9/+81I can almost see the guy in pic 3 singing "Chim chimeny chim chim charoo"
    • webcrumb, on 04/27/2008, -4/+44Yes. Because Disney stereotypes are real. Like the crows in Dumbo.
    • tumples, on 04/27/2008, -2/+9Argh get out! That isn't a cockney accent.

      *vomits everywhere*
    • SatansSpatula, on 04/27/2008, -3/+5AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.

      Sorry, stereotype or not, that was damned funny. At least from this side of the pond...
    • Mossman85, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1I like how everyone has a look of "wtf are you doing?" Now days people whore themselves out in front of mirrors and beg for comments.
    • jc7012, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2*hear?

    • Belldanime, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1I do what I likes and I likes what I do.

      And those Disney stereotypes are real enough to remember those songs.
  • RedSkies, on 04/27/2008, -26/+11Buried for Daily Mail spam.
    • Jamma27, on 04/27/2008, -2/+1Not necessarily spam, but buried for being from pro-nazi newspaper
  • OGla, on 04/27/2008, -23/+3I knew britain was grey but that it's the first time it's shown in color is amazing.
    • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -1/+13What? We're surrounded by countryside. Even in a city it's not that hard to see some, I can see some from my window now and I don't even live in a rural area.
    • waydee, on 04/27/2008, -1/+12First thing my American friend commented on when he arrived in Scotland - "Wow, it's so green!"
      • ayeroxor, on 04/27/2008, -4/+1The beer? Or the leprechauns?
        • allywilson, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7"Or the leprechauns?" ...oh dear lord. That would be Ireland.
        • ayeroxor, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1I know. It's just fun yanking chains sometimes :P
    • Heavypettingzoo, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1honestly, when i think of london, all i can imagine is rain. i blame the media.
      • dorkdork777, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Finally, the media is right about something!
      • gudnbluts, on 04/27/2008, -0/+0It does rain a lot there. They get about half the annual rainfall of New York, which is quite a bit.
      • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2You should try visiting the damned place... It's the dirtiest, most over-rated city I have ever visited. Northern England ftw!
        • ayeroxor, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1It's England's version of New York. It's not a tiny remote village. It's a busy ***** city, hub of commerce and art, melting pot of ethnic and economic backgrounds, etc. If you arrive expecting anything else, you haven't done a ***** ounce of research.
  • EgaoNoGenki, on 04/27/2008, -17/+1Oh, come the (pluck) on!
    I've seen color images of the Civil War from the other side of the Pacific. (You know, from here. Your American Civil War, dudes.)
    • MtheoryX, on 04/27/2008, -4/+8What's funny is that you even acknowledge that "our American Civil War" is also known as "the Civil War" even in other countries.

      Oh, and "dudes" has been considered "out" for quite some time over here.
      • crazyhorse13, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Interesting. Here in America, the word "dude" just sorta melded into the standard vocabulary.
        • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Random people I meet get shocked when I call them dude... Admittedly a ginger-haired white english guy saying dude does NOT meet the typical stereotype.
  • vx69, on 04/27/2008, -2/+121Wow this article is pretty decent for the Daily Mail.
    • reginaldino, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18that's because there are few words,
      even the comments don't appear to have been written by morons. Amazing
      • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -0/+10It's a one off believe me.
      • djm101, on 04/27/2008, -0/+9From a comment: "I too enjoyed this story, makes a change from reading about bad things. -Annie, Birmingham"
        I would suggest to Annie that she stopped reading the Daily Mail.
        • ayeroxor, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1Or perhaps that she simply curled up into a ball. The news is about bad things sometimes. Most people can't take it.
    • webcrumb, on 04/27/2008, -5/+8Except it's not the Jack, it's the Flag. Unless London is a ship...
      • liamvictor, on 04/27/2008, -1/+6Normally you'd be correct, but the Union Flag is a new term, and the Union Jack has been used as its name regardless of where it has flown.
        • webcrumb, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Hmm... according to Britannica it is officially the Jack. Well I never...

          "Initially the flag was called a jack only when it was flown at the bowsprit of British naval vessels. It was commonly called the Union Jack by the late 17th century, and that name became official in the late 19th century."

          http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074268/Unite ...
  • Chrispyc1211, on 04/27/2008, -1/+11My mind has officially been blown.
    • bosssmiley, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5I know. I mean, I thought the world was strictly in black-and-white until the 1950s too. :-)
      • 15charmaxwtf, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1There are a number of films from the 1920s and 30s (e.g. Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz) that were in colour. Though they stopped making many of them because of the great depression.
    • plethorex, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2I felt the same way. Even though I know that things have "been in color" always, it still amazes me to actually see it. I remember the first time I saw The World at War, WW2 documentary, which includes a ton of era video footage and color photography. Seeing those things for the first time in what, to me, was a realistic depiction really brought me a lot of emotion.
      • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Coronation Street and Eastenders give me my emotional fix.. o.O
  • Stonekeeper, on 04/27/2008, -0/+24these pics are great. I especially like the old rustic street photos of cornwal.
  • mattr12345, on 04/27/2008, -11/+18Somehow the colour doesn't have the same depth as modern photos. It still doesn't quite seem real. Amazing, nonetheless.
    • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -1/+48Of course it doesn't, colour photography was in it's infancy and they're over 100 years old. Do you expect them to be HDR vistas?
    • DifferentAngle, on 04/27/2008, -0/+26yeah, they should have been using a DSLR - cheap bastards
      • FatLoser, on 04/27/2008, -29/+1Are you a mormon? Digital consumer cameras were invented less than 20 years ago... so how the ***** do you suppose a photographer from 1919 could have procured one of them? The denseness of Digg never ceases to amaze me. That people like you manage to operate in the real world is a mystery and a surprise.
        • WallnutBoy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18Diggers like you amuse me.
        • pezoamo, on 04/27/2008, -1/+15That is the most ironic statement I've read all week
        • jon30041, on 04/27/2008, -2/+3... "Mormon"? Well, I think you're kinda dumb for not recognizing the joke.

          That and an ***** for equating Mormons with your stupidity. Jerk.
        • ayeroxor, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4Pot, kettle, etc..

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        • Emnsta, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2wow
  • purelithium, on 04/27/2008, -18/+3England: Just as dirty now as it was then!
    • stpaddy58, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0You must be spotless (Baffled by your statement) then or now
    • Jholder112233, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1If I'm honest, I would agree that England has a large litter problem..
  • secrity, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5The process may have produced muted colors, it is also possible that the colors may have faded over time. The color in these pictures reminds me of Polacolor, including the exageration of the reds.
    • Myztry, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8It is easy to spot a photo taken in the 70's. The just have this weird hue about them. It's not simply fading as they looked that way when I was a kid too.
  • TipsyMcDoodle, on 04/27/2008, -14/+12Somehow adding colour adds a better sense of realism for me to relate to. It's easier to picture myself in those situations. Must be a painstaking process to colour those prints.
    • Volcane, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6The point is they were COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, not colored after the fact using a manual process.
    • Musicmonkey34, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11in light of volcane's correction, i still agree with your main point.
    • threepio, on 04/27/2008, -13/+2To picture yourself there? That's a tad narcissistic. Appreciate the photo for what's there, not for what you bring to it - believe it or not: it's not about you.
      • crazyhorse13, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Wow. Putting yourself in someone's shoes is a bad thing?
  • meloogal, on 04/27/2008, -12/+5My head a splode. These pictures are insane.
  • ghm101, on 04/27/2008, -20/+98especially given the subject matter, it is spelt COLOUR, not color
    • DifferentAngle, on 04/27/2008, -1/+56In other news, Digg is overrun with 'recognize versus recognise" and "soda versus pop" arguments. Scientists blame boring lifestyles.
      • Timmmm, on 04/27/2008, -4/+1Heh, no-one says soda or pop here... We don't really have a replacement either; at least not one we use in the same way as you use soda.
    • WallnutBoy, on 04/27/2008, -2/+7ZEE!
      ZED!
    • jbrowng, on 04/27/2008, -2/+14Please lets not get into this REALLY pointless (and impossible to end) argument.
      More interestingly was that it's an article about Britain, and it does seem rather odd that its spelt without the 'u'. It would suggest the submitter was from outside the UK, and in which case, why on earth are you reading the Daily Mail?! I'd not touch that comic with a 10ft pole (pardon the cliché).
      • DifferentAngle, on 04/27/2008, -0/+0I always stick to the convention of using American English on American websites and British English on British websites - it looks like the submitter may follow that too.
        • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Why the hell would you do that? Its kind of... whore-like
    • chambana, on 04/27/2008, -8/+3look however america decides to spell it is right, respect our authoriteh
    • Belldanime, on 04/27/2008, -5/+3Isn't it 'spelled' color instead of colour?
      As far as I'm concerned, spelt is a plant. So much for trying to be a grammar nazi, you britfag.
      • crazyhorse13, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3Take that you pile of wood.
      • martin01p, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0lol Belldanime makes me laugh by how much of an idiot he is.
        • Belldanime, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1I'm the idiot but you're the one that couldn't figure out, despite how obvious it is, that I'm a girl. Great job on the writing.
      • Belldanime, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Britfags dugg me down. Such sore losers.
        I don't hate you.
      • mediaphile, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Actually, spelt is correct in English. In American English, we don't often use the irregular forms of words, but irregular forms are acceptable in English. I agree that "color" should be the correct spelling of that word, because the French (and true) pronunciation of "colour" is not used by any of the English languages that spell it that way. This applies to most other "-or vs. -our" words.
    • pagno, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2Buried for inciting a riot.
    • Yatata, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I find myself using just o and ite when I write anything on digg because a lot of americans aren't aware the commonwealth spells things differently. I think I'll stop conforming now.
  • TWiThead, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18Also of great interest is the ingenious process devised by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii around 1905. He invented a means of using filters to rapidly capture three monochromatic photographs of a subject (one each for red, green and blue) on glass plates. These could then be combined to project (but not print) vivid, full-color imagery.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokudin-Gorsky

    Using modern digital technology, a project commissioned by the Library of Congress has combined these R/G/B monochromatic photographs, resulting in stunning, full-color images of 1909–1915 Russia.
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
  • Nhmarine, on 04/27/2008, -11/+2Whoa! I feel a wave of nostalgia and wish I could live once again in the beginning of the 20th century, where it was truly boring as hell. You can really see the boring that permeated throughout London in these pictures, amazing.
  • ihazstatus, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12I think I can see Grandpa Joe and Charlie in the fourth picture down!
  • Myztry, on 04/27/2008, -4/+25The world really was black and white back then.
    Only a few objects had begun to exhibit colour...
  • cavergeek, on 04/27/2008, -5/+9Wow, largely unexplored huh? ....... England in the early 1900's ......... Right.
  • MattDell, on 04/27/2008, -1/+6Amazing how little has changed...
    • Angostura, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Except, I've never seen Fleet Street that devoid of cars, except one time back in the 80s following an IRA bomb threat.
  • desmondregan, on 04/27/2008, -8/+3i think they spelled Knightsbridge wrong (they spelled it kinghtsbridge)
  • Cornrider, on 04/27/2008, -7/+6How did they get their porn back then?
  • Cornrider, on 04/27/2008, -9/+4Where did they get their porn from back then? Was it black and white?
    • deanimate, on 04/27/2008, -10/+2back in those days a man got pussy via the medium of rape.
      i guess times have taken a sad change eh :(
  • charlietuna, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3Dugg for use of the word "autochrome."
  • Lynxpro, on 04/27/2008, -0/+14...but can you see The Doctor in any of the pics?
    • Salva, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3wonder if any americans are going to get that refference...
      • dlllb, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Dont the BBC sell it to them??? Just like almost everything they make
    • hobbitaussie, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2I did. Watched The Doctor for most of my childhood.
  • Ubertastic, on 04/27/2008, -8/+2Am I the only one that sees Big Ben and immediately thinks 28 Days Later?... Just me? Ok...
    • Klarth, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10Yes, just you.

      Because some of us actually live here and perceive the UK as an actual place rather than something from a film.
      • Ubertastic, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Ah, perhaps I should have thought about what I was saying before I typed that message. To you, sir, I offer my finest apologies. You're absolutely correct, Big Ben is a beautiful landmark that should only be representative of the UK, and not some random movie. Sorry if my little comment ticked you off.
  • danesis, on 04/27/2008, -7/+0dugg for interesting use of HDR
  • tripledjr, on 04/27/2008, -6/+3"...children play on the cobbled streets..."
    They were sitting on stairs, and the one in the distance leaning on a wall. What kind of play time is that? At least when we sit and play were racing, or stealing cars and shooting up hookers a la gta.
    • vfreak2, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3They were posing for a photo that likely took 20 mins just to focus and take the shot. Kids who play video games all day learn even less than kids did back then.
      • tripledjr, on 04/27/2008, -4/+0So should it not have been captioned posing for photo, not playing? ... You just reinforced my point.
  • akiller, on 04/27/2008, -2/+6I love these kind of photos or videos. Unfortunately, I can't help but look at people and think that the young kid in the picture would now be 100 or that most of the people are very unlikely to be alive any more. Depressing :).
  • AriaGloris, on 04/27/2008, -4/+3Looks so damn clean also, better times :(
    • threepio, on 04/27/2008, -0/+9Clean, with ***** running through the gutters in the streets, offal tosed out of windows (hence the term toss pot) and a lack of a public garbage removal service?

      Let's just say that the photos are lacking some of the details that made life less palatable back then.
  • solid12345, on 04/27/2008, -12/+29Let me update these photos for you now in Britain 2008:

    Replace those marching soldiers with rampaging Muslims calling for death to Europe for insulting the prophet

    Replace those quiet empty streets with 200 cars honking and cutting each other off

    Replace the quaint little home with a ghetto apartment complex and broken windows and crackheads sitting on the porch tweaking

    Replace the respectable dressed mother and daughter with skanks in miniskirts coming out of the club hammered and puking

    • mahsah, on 04/27/2008, -2/+12Isn't progress swell?
    • jbrowng, on 04/27/2008, -1/+5♪ God save our gracious Queen, long live our.... ♪ :P
      • phenom2k7, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4wow dude, those music icons have blown my mind
    • Flunk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+15Dramatise much?
      • pault107, on 04/27/2008, -4/+3Not at all. Everything he wrote is true.
        • Flunk, on 04/27/2008, -2/+41. These days any Muslim calling for death to Europe will be charged for preaching hate/terrorism
          2. Well I'd like to see 200 cars fit in one street. And compared to most capitals I wouldn't say London had a congestion problem especially with the congestion charge.
          3. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/d/drug_abuse/stats-c ... Identical drug abuse stastistics to other western countries with similar populations.
          4. Ok that one might be true.
          • pault107, on 04/27/2008, -2/+51.I personally witnessed hundreds of Muslims celebrating in the street on September 11 just around the corner from my house (south west England). I'm far from a racist but witnessing that was disturbing. No arrests made.
            2. 200 cars can easily fit in one street if it's a large one. Trafalgar Square?
            3. The article you link to isn't convincing. It's only talks about drug abuse in general. I'd rather have 100 pot heads in my neighbourhood than one crack head. Unfortunately there are quite a few crack heads living near my house and violence is on the rise.

            May I ask where you live Fluck, because it's getting pretty bad where I live.
          • Flunk, on 04/27/2008, -0/+5I'm from North London. I understand where you're coming from I just don't like it when Americans make Europe seem like an out of control ghetto after reading a few Daily Mail articles.
          • pault107, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1@Flunk - Yeah, I know what you mean.

            PS My apologies for spelling your name Fluck in my last post - that was an honest typo, I wasn't trying to insult you.
    • threepio, on 04/27/2008, -3/+12You forgot to add the network of CCTV cameras everywhere.
    • Angostura, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7My word, we've been visited by a real life Daily Fail reader.
    • kilgoretrout88, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2That's right, post-Great War Britain was just swell.
    • BN2L, on 04/27/2008, -3/+2Rampant Muslims? Crackheads in Cornwall? Miniskirts? Never been to Britain I take it. You got the traffic right though.
    • ElbowGeek, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Trust me, they had troubled streets back then. They were just emerging from Victorian/Edwardian times and it was pretty depraved in some sections. Do some reading on the times these were taken.
  • Zcaithaca, on 04/27/2008, -7/+2...these comments are so lame
    • ChrisToast, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6thanks for making them that much better
  • ucccft, on 04/27/2008, -18/+1

















    WOW! someone in england learned photoshop, whats next, colour photos of England landing on the moon in 1869, 100 years before the US, O yea some french guy went to england to take photos, where are the photos he took in france?



  • bbqsalad, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3nice icon...
  • eddy23170, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2more porridge please....
    these pics are great
  • BigBadaboom, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4The book mentioned in the artical seems to be "The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age" by David Okuefuna
  • analogue40, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3a few more pictures in this slideshow:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/feature ...
  • BenjaminWill, on 04/27/2008, -9/+7It saddens me to look at these pictures of a once beautiful Britain. If you go to those locations now they are either full of scrounging immigrants, Muslim extremists or thuggish teenagers wolf whistling young girls with a bottle clutched in one hand, the other down their pants.
    • chochazel, on 04/27/2008, -2/+7That's if you're lucky. Sometimes you meet Daily Mail readers.
    • BN2L, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Where are you from? Never been to Knightsbridge I take it. These are some of the richest areas in the world.
    • matthew2398, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1wonder why so many digg users read the daily fail?
    • ElbowGeek, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3As I posted above, London had it's depraved side back then. But these were taken to show the best of Britain at that time - post cards essentially. I've read some truly horrifying scenes from the streets of London which would be utterly unthinkable today.
  • AimFaiL, on 04/27/2008, -1/+0creepy photo with the children and slum :s

  • Mossman85, on 04/27/2008, -3/+4I wish they had cars back then. I would jack a car and run everyone down in pic 1. Take that guy's large broom and beat him until his money drops. Oh man. Two more days...
    • dhughes, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1 > I wish they had cars back then.

      They did, the Model-T Ford. Although I'm not sure what models or manufacturers they had in England but more than likely they had quite a few.
  • Klak, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3the kids in one of the pictures look like they have seen the tape from "the ring"
  • MOates, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Damn, now that is impressive.
  • CYR1X, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Beautiful.
  • johnmchilton, on 04/27/2008, -0/+0Three cheers for the BAMF who got to stand in it for the picture! That would be awesome.
  • Christbait, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2Damn, St. Ives really hasn't changed _that_ much, I've walked down those tiny narrow streets a few times... mainly because they're a nightmare for cars.
    • Rookie42, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Truth. Driving around it is a ***** nightmare.
  • tekn04, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3Incredible.

    You can buy the book with many more images here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderful-World-Albert-Kah ...
  • ssj2119, on 04/27/2008, -1/+1wow seeing the war time-ish ones are scary
  • ohnnyj, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1Although the article suggests that autochrome produced the first color photographs, they were being created years before this process became popular. It should have indicated that autochrome was the first to be commercially viable.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
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