Revealed: Extraordinary collection of 5,000 WWI photographs salvaged from RUBBISH DUMPS by a former

[jakeXT]

A dustman with a passion for history has compiled one of the Britain's best collections of First World War photographs after spending decades fishing out pictures from rubbish dumps and bins.

Bob Smethurst spent 36 years working in refuse and began saving the remarkable images from landfill because he could not bear to see them destroyed.

He believes as soldiers from the conflict grew old and died a lot of their remarkable memorabilia was often thrown out, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587919/Former-dustman-salvaged-5-000-historic-photographs-WWI-heroes-action-RUBBISH-DUMPS.html

[grasswire]

1. wow, amazing stuff thanks

[malthaussen]

3. Fantastic! Let's hear it for the dustman!

-- Mal

[pansypoo53219]

4. awesome. i collect as many old B/W photos, albums i can get my hands on.

finding any WW1 stuff is always a happy thing. or WW2. sadly, the older people are disappearing + less saved stuff.
ooh, i also picked up a great WW1 by an early embedded reporter. floyd gibbon's 'and they said we wouldn't fight.' awesome book. delightful look at the WWI gen of soldiers.

[yuiyoshida]

5. Amazing collection ...

I kept looking for someone who looked like Dr. Henry Jones, but alas..I know he is just fictional .. sigh.


So..I posted my own!

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I love this kind of stuff...

It's incredible that images from WWI are still surfacing.
Thanx for posting, because without your consideration, I'd never have seen it. K&R

Few people know that color film even existed in 1915, but here's a link you may already be aware of, that contains a collection of such images:

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/index.html

Although color photography was around prior to 1903, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, patented the process in 1903 and developed the first color film in 1907. The French army was the primary source of color photos during the course of World War One.

[Feral Child]

7. I deleted my previous post

because my browser was pasting very strange links in it.

I ran a virus scan and Malwarebytes and it seems to be cleared up.



I want to thank you for posting this. WWI saw the birth pangs of much of the conflict and political turmoil we're seeing today, especially in eastern Europe and the Middle East.

This is an extremely important historical find.

100 year anniversary in August.


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