Since moving out, I have been slightly concerned about losing touch with my past, my heritage if you will.

You see, both my mum and dad have hundred of photos and naturally, I like to look at them and see where I come from. It's quite strange looking at photographs of my mum when she was little and seeing that she had the same chubby cheeks my nephew has now, when she was that age. That is one of many reasons why I have decided to scan and print all the old photographs of my family, right from the years of 1950 to 2000.

Anyway, being someone who spends a god awful lot of time sat in front of photoshop, I can't help but fix any flaws that I see in these images as I scan them. Seeing a scratch or a spec of dust on a photograph annoys me to no end and I have to fix it – and this can take hours.

Here is my work so far

Lorraine aged 5 - My Aunt

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The next two are of my mother, taken sometime around 1949 and 1952 I'd imagine

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