The effect of black and white or sepia can often make the people and places in old photographs seem remote and disconnected from our reality. Here we present a selection of historic photos of Henfield, digitally restored before being put through the DeOldify suggestive colourisation algorithm. Dates range from the 1860s to the 1950s.
Featured Restored & Colourised Photo
Cows graze on Broadmere Common, c. 1912-14.
The Common has been known as both Broadmere and Broadmare, although we'll leave you to judge which would have been closest to the traditional Sussex dialect. The first edition 1809 Ordnance Survey map even labels it 'Brood Mare', the cartographers possibly mishearing or misunderstanding a local accent! Henfield Museum Collection