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Gloucester
61 of 69  Wed 21st Jul 2021 9:35pm  

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Helen F
Warrington
62 of 69  Mon 23rd Aug 2021 3:49pm  

This is a Herbert Cox of the back of Ford's. There is a slightly more perky copy in the collection at the Council House. Painted about 1917. Alternative version.
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Dreamtime
Perth Western Australia
63 of 69  Mon 23rd Aug 2021 4:55pm  

Great collection, Helen, thanks for the 'viewing'. Happy
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Helen F
Warrington
64 of 69  Fri 7th Jan 2022 10:49pm  

Zoom in and look at the people. There was a style of book when I was a kid where you could transfer people and objects to a scene by scribbling on the back over a transparent sheet of characters. It looks like the people in the photo have been stuck on in a similar way. But Ford's looks a bit the same. What's going on?
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scrutiny
coventry
65 of 69  Sat 8th Jan 2022 4:43am  

And the sky, weird?
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Fourmilier
Coventry
66 of 69  Sat 8th Jan 2022 12:23pm  

It is a photograph with at least one paradox. The gentleman closest to the camera is well wrapped up against cold weather (coat and scarf), yet his shadow is very short. The short shadow suggests the sun is high in the sky (as it is during the summer), if it is summer why the need for the cost and scarf? I'm also not too convinced the figure with the bicycle is quite right. Why is the figure so dark, is the figure and bicycle at the correct scale (proportion) given the apparent distance from the camera and why is the back wheel of the bicycle so high?
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Helen F
Warrington
67 of 69  Sat 8th Jan 2022 12:44pm  

I would suggest that it's a merger of multiple photos. The background is in decent focus (which pleases me) and I suspect that on the original the foreground wasn't in focus. So another, better photo was stuck on. The street was possibly empty and again I think the people are stuck on. The 'scratching' might be part of that - glue or white paint to obscure the original image or some sort of touch up. I've seen quite a few photos where details have been crudely sketched on because they were lost by distance or smog.
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Midland Red

68 of 69  Sun 23rd Jan 2022 12:31pm  

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NeilsYard
Coventry
69 of 69  Wed 25th Jan 2023 4:55pm  

CliffB has this better version of the image I posted in #45 of the Cheylesmore Inn and Fords Hospital but wider - with an interesting capture of the buildings to the side -
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