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Of course these were amateur photographs taken in 1919 on 5x4 sheets of camera film. The photographer only had one chance to get the image right. Any slight movement or mis-judgement of the light conditions would result in the image being too dark or too light - or blurred. Access to film and...

many of these old negatives are around 5 by 4 inches in size.

It's complicated. I used a normal flatbed scanner with the lid open. I shone a narrow beam of light from about 4 foot above the scanner onto the negative whilst scanning the negative. I then used software to turn the negative into a positive and to reverse any that I'd scanned in as a mirror...

Mr WH Foxhall was a fellow of the Royal Geographical society so traveled widely. However, three of the photographs here are of the old Somerset Road Methodist Church which was across the road from his home. The others here are ones we suspect are nearby but can't quite place! My mother in law...

Kings Visit to Birmingham - 20 August 1919. Photographs by WH Foxhall, Somerset Rd, Handsworth Wood. Ditialised by JA Cook, in 2019

Almost 16 years, after I made the first post, I have mastered the technology to scan some of the old negatives in. However, they are of all over the country, and not well labeled - so I am struggling to work out which are of Birmingham. The original photographer was Mr WH Foxhall of Somerset...