Via Facebook. Poster is HowdiColour Image Recovery & Colour.
Three parts:
- Please read his comments first
- Link to the Flickr Repository
- Links to his colorizations
Approximately 12 years ago I was extremely fortunate to come into contact with an individual who preferred to remain 'anonymous' to most other people, and only referred to in the '3rd party' to mentioned as 'Anyjazz65'. Whether that's changed over the years I have no idea, but I am going still honour his wishes regardless!
His website was/remains awash with numerous collections of family and historical photographs that he had produced from buying up old negatives. In communication we shared a mutual love of old processing, and film stock, but most amazingly, he made me aware of set of negatives he had already started slowly uploading that once belonged to one of the 91st BG base photographers at Bassingbourn during WW2! At the time this page was called the 'Bassingbourn: Lost Gallery' and he basically had idea what had!?
The collection is now extremely well known, and has been fully uploaded, and is now been renamed : 'In The South Of England 1944' on Flickr, and is an absolute treasure trove of amazing quality negatives of 91st BG during war time. In mutual respect, kindness, some work, and a bit of research, I was kindly allowed copies for my own use, and I have prised them ever since.
Some of them are so great that I decided to give them a go. Though there are about 300 in total, I have chosen just a small handful of shots of 'visiting' and unusual aircraft over and above the normal 91st BG B-17's.
Though a number of the images within collection were of the photographer himself (a Lieutenant ) we found it impossible at the time to track down his name, and so (as far I know) his still remains a mystery. However, the full amazing collection can be viewed here:
https://www.flickr.com/.../490243.../sets/72157608125792619/Photos: Authors Personal Collection Via 'Anyjazz65'.
Minor Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @HowdiColourWorks.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/49024304@N00/sets/72157608125792619/?fbclid=IwAR2XiXD5GMWilNqQ5e8RkDU4vhZ979GK4X3FJ4G82ZIpoj4SGTXZEDPWsDI