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Man Finds 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Inside Old Box He Buys For £4, Son ‘Develops’ Them Using Photoshop
Rummaging through old artifacts at an antique sale can make you feel like an archeologist on a dig and every now and then you come across a true commodity. Well, that’s what happened to Greg Pack, 70, in Essex, England.
The elderly man was at a boot sale, searching for old clocks and came across a battered old box. His son, publisher Scott Patrick, tweeted the entire account of what happened next. Inside the mystery box were 100-year-old glass negatives, that piqued the interest of his father. Pack senior, a retired graphics artist, told ITV News that he had been, “working in print years ago,” and explained, “I used to work with negatives and these looked quite good.”
However, according to the former artist glass negatives fade quite easily, using a mixture of his photo knowledge and modern technology he found a way to restore the photos back to their former glory. Scroll down below to see how he revived these images!
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Retired graphics artist, Greg Pack came across this mystery box at a boot sale in Essex
Inside he found some interesting relics, and his son tweeted out the whole discovery
Along with the photos they found some clues about the family and asked Twitter to do some detective work
People in the comments were more than happy to contribute their knowledge and share their own artifact stories
Based on the photos, people were saying they were more than 100 years old
What do you think ?
Dowbo 7 years ago
"would love to find out more about them. Or even just date them" Reckon they'll be dead or in their hundreds.... bit old for the dating scene!
diane a 7 years ago
Love old pictures - have loads including negatives - but no glass ones unfortunately, Oldest one I have has been dated by a military museum to around 1860 - fascinating
diane a 7 years ago
The museum dated it by the uniform and canon designs artillery-...acba95.jpg 
fruit_panda 7 years ago
Umm...Château Connerie was surely not the actual name. It means "F**k-up castle"
Scott Pack 7 years ago
Your headline is wrong. I didn't 'develop' them. I haven't even seen the originals. My dad did all the work. It is all in the tweets so shouldn't be too hard to get right :-)
Megan O'Neill 7 years ago
Do the pictures match up with the descriptions? Are there pictures of sailing boats on the Themes (21&22)? Was there an old fisherman (1)?
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Doodlebug 7 years ago
That one pic with all the grannies....that is awesome! I'd bet that's five generations of women in one family photo - great-gran, gran, mum, daughters, grandaughter(s). Also....all those girls! And one lone boy, I think. I wonder if they are all children of the two daughters? Imagine that boy growing up, lol!
Nora AlMeida 7 years ago
That person could contact the resort or whoever it is that currently owns it. Perhaps then, that person can still find records. The records might mention the number of people staying in the resort, then by counting the people in the pictures, that person will know whose pictures are they, especially when comparing the names in the list with the names in the resort’s records. (The person who took the pictures could be an employee who works at the resort, not a family member.) The process with which the negatives turned into positive was really cool to know.
Daniela Makor 7 years ago
so cool! this would have been a very rich family, camera were crazy expensive that time!
Captain Marvel 7 years ago
I'd take this treasure chest over gold any day..wow. Extremely fascinating, thank you so much for this post!
Skarlet Panda 7 years ago
These pictures makes me think of the fantastic books Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I love the background and idea behind the books from the author. He used old photos like these throughout the series and built a story around the amazing pics.
Chris Pitch 7 years ago
I swear I have seen a horror movie that starts from finding something like this
Jonathan Constant 7 years ago
The girl on the bottom right of the first one is up to something.
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r3dd3v1lL 7 years ago
iphone + photoshop? Kids these days.. There is such a thing as "Film scanner" which, you know... scans old photos.
Beatrice Alighieri 7 years ago
A boot sale is like a garage/yard sale - the only difference is that the objects are displayed/carried in the trunk of a vehicle. (Boot=Trunk in the UK)
Load More Replies... Dowbo 7 years ago
"would love to find out more about them. Or even just date them" Reckon they'll be dead or in their hundreds.... bit old for the dating scene!
diane a 7 years ago
Love old pictures - have loads including negatives - but no glass ones unfortunately, Oldest one I have has been dated by a military museum to around 1860 - fascinating
diane a 7 years ago
The museum dated it by the uniform and canon designs artillery-...acba95.jpg
fruit_panda 7 years ago
Umm...Château Connerie was surely not the actual name. It means "F**k-up castle"
Scott Pack 7 years ago
Your headline is wrong. I didn't 'develop' them. I haven't even seen the originals. My dad did all the work. It is all in the tweets so shouldn't be too hard to get right :-)
Megan O'Neill 7 years ago
Do the pictures match up with the descriptions? Are there pictures of sailing boats on the Themes (21&22)? Was there an old fisherman (1)?
Load More Replies... Doodlebug 7 years ago
That one pic with all the grannies....that is awesome! I'd bet that's five generations of women in one family photo - great-gran, gran, mum, daughters, grandaughter(s). Also....all those girls! And one lone boy, I think. I wonder if they are all children of the two daughters? Imagine that boy growing up, lol!
Nora AlMeida 7 years ago
That person could contact the resort or whoever it is that currently owns it. Perhaps then, that person can still find records. The records might mention the number of people staying in the resort, then by counting the people in the pictures, that person will know whose pictures are they, especially when comparing the names in the list with the names in the resort’s records. (The person who took the pictures could be an employee who works at the resort, not a family member.) The process with which the negatives turned into positive was really cool to know.
Daniela Makor 7 years ago
so cool! this would have been a very rich family, camera were crazy expensive that time!
Captain Marvel 7 years ago
I'd take this treasure chest over gold any day..wow. Extremely fascinating, thank you so much for this post!
Skarlet Panda 7 years ago
These pictures makes me think of the fantastic books Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I love the background and idea behind the books from the author. He used old photos like these throughout the series and built a story around the amazing pics.
Chris Pitch 7 years ago
I swear I have seen a horror movie that starts from finding something like this
Jonathan Constant 7 years ago
The girl on the bottom right of the first one is up to something.
Load More Replies... r3dd3v1lL 7 years ago
iphone + photoshop? Kids these days.. There is such a thing as "Film scanner" which, you know... scans old photos.
Beatrice Alighieri 7 years ago
A boot sale is like a garage/yard sale - the only difference is that the objects are displayed/carried in the trunk of a vehicle. (Boot=Trunk in the UK)
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