{"id":41689,"date":"2025-08-03T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/41689\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:48:09","slug":"i-used-beer-and-vitamin-c-to-reveal-forgotten-family-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/41689\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I used beer and vitamin C to reveal forgotten family photos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After researching online, Wayne found that &#8220;there was one developer that you could mix up yourself with coffee, and then there was a really great recipe out of beer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He mixed lager with washing soda and iodised salt before adding vitamin C powder last to avoid a foam explosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wayne then needed to wait for 20 minutes while the developing process happened in his home lab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect anything, and then out came two photos of two gentlemen, and I was just amazed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That film had sat in that camera from the 70s and never been touched.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curious to find out more, Wayne shared the photos on social media. He also contacted the auctioneers, who emailed the seller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Within an hour, Wayne says he received a phone call from the daughter of one of the men in the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After researching online, Wayne found that &#8220;there was one developer that you could mix up yourself with coffee,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-41689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}