Electric Colour

03/08/2026

31/07/2026

William Thomson Hay FRAS (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian best known for playing authority figures with comic failings in several films, most notably as a schoolmaster. His film Oh, Mr Porter! (1937), made by Gainsborough Pictures, is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and in 1938 he was the third highest-grossing star in the UK.Many comedians have acknowledged him as a major influence. Hay was also a keen amateur astronomer.

31/07/2026

The Bridesmaids at the marriage of Dorothy Gough-Calthorpe and the Earl of Malmestbury, 27th of April, 1905.
The bridesmaids were the Hon. Constance Calthorpe (the bride’s sister), Miss Verona Finch (cousin), Miss Aline Cholmeley and Miss Marjorie Maitland.
The reception took place at Elvetham Hall, Hampshire, the bride's family home

Colourised from an image taken by David Knights-whittome and Colourised with permission by Sutton Borough Council archives.
A link to the original.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pastonglass/30404372773/in/album-72157665467135266

22/06/2026

Yeah.. I really don't miss this at all...

20/06/2026

Update. Photographed at Farnborough museum, UK. This is a WW1 gr***de launcher. Based on a trebuchet.

19/06/2026

Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English actress of theatre, film, and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy".
She found her milieu in r***e, in which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with English actress Hermione Gingold.

17/06/2026

This makes me proud..

31/05/2026

Joyce Irene Grenfell (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English diseuse, singer, actress and writer. She was known for the songs and monologues she wrote and performed, at first in r***es and later in her solo shows. She never appeared as a stage actress, but had roles, mostly comic, in many films, including Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's series (from 1954). She was a well-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a writer, she was the first radio critic for The Observer, contributed to Punch and published two volumes of memoirs.

31/05/2026

Gabrielle Ray (born Gabrielle Elizabeth Clifford Cook, 28 April 1883 – 21 May 1973) was an English stage actress, dancer and singer, best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies.
Ray was considered one of the most beautiful actresses on the London stage and became one of the most photographed women in the world. In the first decade of the 20th century, she had a good career in musical theatre. After an unsuccessful marriage, she returned to the stage, but she never recovered the fame that she had enjoyed. She later struggled with depression and spent her last 37 years in a mental health hospital.

25/05/2026

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and Lawrence's ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.