This is still a work in progress for me but I think it has reached the point where it is ready for other eyes.
My first football match
Came across this today. The program from the first football match I remember going to with my dad, 27th April 1963. I would have been eight then. I have a vivid memory of one of the older Spurs fans telling me where the “Hotspur” name came from. So, got to see Jimmy Greaves and Danny Blanchflower. Sadly for them, shortly afterwards my allegiance switched to Ipswich Town (and stayed there) who were playing Burnley that day. It also mentions the “bad weather.” That classic piece of British understatement was a reference to the “Big Freeze” of 1963 which started after Boxing day ’62 and lasted continuously for ten weeks until a thaw arrived in early March. I’m told it was the coldest January in England since 1814. Another memory from then was building a snowball in the road outside our house that was almost as big as I was. Memorable because back then we rarely got snow being low-lying and close to the sea.
An experiment with AI
Another experiment with AI. First the original B&W photo scanned at 600dpi. Then the colourised version. I found a contemporary tinted image and instructed the AI to match the colours of the uniforms closely. My grandfather George is at the back on the left (as you are facing). Context: This is a First World War hospital back home. I knew he had been wounded but not the circumstances. He later returned to active service and was captured by the Germans at Messines on the 10th April 1918 during their Michael offensive, which initially caught the allies by surprise. I shall be digging into that to see what more I can discover. I remember him as a gentle man, who never said a harsh word about anyone.
