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Fisher Street
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Hi mikejee, I don't know how you do it, but over the years you have been so helpful to me and come up with the goods. I have a family history project intended to try to identify exactly where my ancestors lived. In some cases, with the help of you and Britain by Air, I have been able to identify the houses where they lived. Thank you for this, I know I will be asking more.
also mike not sure if you know this useful map..just move the blue dot to the left map will fade out to show you what is there now..you can move the map around and put in various st names..click on link below i have set the map on fisher st..long gone now..lyn
Hi Astoness, You too have also provided me with invaluable information over the years which is really appreciated. All of my maternal side came from Birmingham and surrounding areas. I do have and use the Georeferenced Maps viewer - Map images - National Library of Scotland and reference it a lot, but the older maps (as far as I can see) don't include house numbers. Fisher Street is somewhere under Aston University along with Colesehill Street, Does Street, Princes Street and many others where my ancestors used to live. It is sad that it was all destroyed in the 1960's
yes mike as my slide map shows it used to be where the uni is now...i have spent many hours having fun with this map
should you need any help with researching your family just start a new thread under our surname interests section of the forumlyn
Hi Mikejee
Thank you for providing the house numbers for Fisher Street, it has been really helpful to me. Following on from that I found a photo, courtesy of 'Briton from Above' of Fisher Street and surrounding area taken in 1937. I took your map and turned it around to align with the photo.
I enhanced the photo and colourised it to make it clearer. Others may be interested in it and may be able to add to it or correct me if there is something wrong.
I was able to identify the house (Number 48) where my G. G. Grandparents lived Thomas Bramley (Bromley) and Sarah Bramley nee Carr according to the 1891 census. I have also attached a thumbnail close up of their house.
I hope the images help others interested in the area, if anyone has any more street photos of the area I would love to see them
If there is anyone else related to Bramley/Bromley (there ares spelling differences in the census records) I would love to hear from them
Lastly, I can post the unaltered B/W image if anyone was interested.
Regards
Mike
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Thank you . That is interesting. I assume the enhancment was done by AI. If so then do remember that the program sometimes (as with the Aston Villa game against West Brom that never happpened) adds things it thinks fit. On another forum today, an aquaintance told how he has asked AI to enhance a rather blurred photo. His comment is copied below:
I have found AI totally hopeless. It needs another decade to get itself sorted. However I have a slightly out of focus photo of a group taken in 1952, so thought AI might be able to focus it. It focused it well but found something wrong with the photo, which it corrected by showing anyone with their head down holding a mobile phone...in 1952!!!
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I have found AI totally hopeless. It needs another decade to get itself sorted. However I have a slightly out of focus photo of a group taken in 1952, so thought AI might be able to focus it. It focused it well but found something wrong with the photo, which it corrected by showing anyone with their head down holding a mobile phone...in 1952!!!
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Totally agree with you, I use various software including Photoshop. The enhancements I use include de-speckle and sharpen but the colourising in this case was through MyHeritage which I assume uses AI.
It is all part of a family history project I am working on, not all census records have house numbers, but where they do I try to see if I can find the number on a map (you have helped me no end of times in this) then see if I can find a photo and identify the house from there.
It is not everyone's cup of tea to colourise photos but for me it has proved invaluable and brings some images to life. We often think that the world was in black and white in days gone by, the photos can be cold and dreary but in reality the world was in colour.
For completeness, attached are the original B/W photo I captured, and enhance one of the section I was interested in and a colourised version without text. Someone may be interested.
Regards
Mike
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Mark Tooze
master brummie
AI Enhancement looks brilliant!!!