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Post by brummie on May 11, 2011 12:58:03 GMT
Two films of interest to you St Albans historians.
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Post by brummie on May 11, 2011 13:01:20 GMT
A member of the Stalbansnostalgia Yahoo forum (which I am a member also) did these films by standing exactly where the original photographer stood and somehow morphed the old photo with a present day one. Hope you like them. There may by more to come.
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Post by Daedalus on May 11, 2011 13:14:49 GMT
Fascinating to look at and quite wonderful Brummie. Thanks for sharing.  |
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Post by brummie on May 11, 2011 13:37:03 GMT
Hi D. If any more films come to light i'll cut and paste those also.
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Post by Boomer on May 11, 2011 14:06:29 GMT
Excellent stuff, brummie. Well done.
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Post by brummie on May 11, 2011 14:09:37 GMT
Cheers boomer. I think there is a past and present picture of Clarence Park in there. Can't remember which film though.
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Post by EFMTFTV on May 11, 2011 14:19:20 GMT
Brilliant Stuff
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Post by brummie on May 11, 2011 15:14:45 GMT
Andy Lawrence, the person who created the films, has explained how it was done.
There are many old photos of thye streets of St Albans and he has copies. He drew diagonal lines on the photos to find the middle and found where the original photographher stood. For the Holywell Hill, Chequer Street and St Peter's Street ones he had to stand in the middle of the road to find the spot at 5am when there is very little traffic. (Try doing that during working hours). And took his present day photo. Apparently he has special software called Photomorph which changes the photo. Then he added the soundtrack. Too technical for me!!. I hope he does some more. Andy also contributes to the Herts Memories website,
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2011 15:52:39 GMT
all good stuff.
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Post by COYS on May 11, 2011 16:12:12 GMT
Do you know when the older photos are from, Brummie? They look very early 20th Century to me... although I could be wrong.
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Post by Saint on May 11, 2011 16:21:59 GMT
Do you know when the older photos are from, Brummie? They look very early 20th Century to me... although I could be wrong. The photo's look like they varey in age! I would hazard a guess some of the latest photo's are from 1920? Some of the photo's you can guess the age, e.g one of the pioctures of Hatfield road shows soldiers marching, so I would palce a guess that was taken sometime during World War 1, which was when the friend's battalions were very big. (1914-1918) |
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Post by brummie on May 11, 2011 18:00:06 GMT
Sorry COYS. Don't know the ages of the photos cos they were not mine, but at a rough guess I would say 1900 to 1920.
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Post by brummie on May 12, 2011 6:51:54 GMT
groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/messagesJust in case anybody wanted to join the Nostalgia group where the two youtube films came from. The link is above. The group was formed iin 2007 as a sort of protest against the Nostalgia Page in the St Albans Observer being dropped.
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Post by brummie on May 12, 2011 7:16:32 GMT
Just been told by Lindsay, the founder, that the group was formed in rememberance of local character "Ginger" Mills who sadly died around that time. |
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Post by Daedalus on May 12, 2011 9:44:38 GMT
Andy Lawrence, the person who created the films, has explained how it was done. There are many old photos of thye streets of St Albans and he has copies. He drew diagonal lines on the photos to find the middle and found where the original photographher stood. For the Holywell Hill, Chequer Street and St Peter's Street ones he had to stand in the middle of the road to find the spot at 5am when there is very little traffic. (Try doing that during working hours). And took his present day photo. Apparently he has special software called Photomorph which changes the photo. Then he added the soundtrack. Too technical for me!!. I hope he does some more. Andy also contributes to the Herts Memories website, It's very clever. I did wonder how it had been done! |
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Post by Boomer on May 12, 2011 11:15:09 GMT
Just been told by Lindsay, the founder, that the group was formed in rememberance of local character "Ginger" Mills who sadly died around that time. Ginger Mills was a legend. Here are a couple of photos. The first is with his van in Gentle's Yard, St. Albans with Verulam Road shops in the background taken in 1975. The second was taken in Pershore, Worcester (where he moved to after St. Albans), just before he passed away in Feb 2008. No images allowed -http://i52.tinypic.com/2cynswo.jpg No images allowed -http://i53.tinypic.com/2ljqee1.jpg |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 13:40:52 GMT
a local character.
ddint he used to live down by the gasworks (now Sainso's)?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 14:30:19 GMT
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Post by Hatboy on May 12, 2011 19:27:57 GMT
Fantastic i've got a couple of photos of St Albans from 1921 of the Abbey and of St Peter's Street and the town hall
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Post by Aries on May 12, 2011 19:46:05 GMT
I read somewhere the Ginger Mills got up on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival in about 1970 when (I think) Eric Clapton was on. I remember seeing him strut around the town. He looked a proper character.
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Post by EFMTFTV on May 14, 2011 10:25:22 GMT
I remember him as well, reading about his disillusion with the way St Albans had become probably strikes a chord with many of us that have been born and bred here
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Post by wirralrob on May 23, 2011 11:27:52 GMT
Certainly remember Ginger from the late 60s early 70s, before I left town. A true character and a nice bloke.
The video clips are excellent - really appreciate the link to them.
Isn't technology wonderful? Now, where did I put that Betamax tape....
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Post by stanj on May 23, 2011 14:10:46 GMT
I think that the one with the soldiers marching through town was the Bedford Reg. in 1916. My Grandfather was one of them, He however was a cook and was travelling in the back of a horse and cart. So my Grandmother told me!!. Whatever, it is very well done congrats to Andy Lawrence.
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