Years passed and it was only in 2024 when he decided to develop the negatives to create a gift book for his family that he discovered the true extent of the pictures. <\/p>\n
The photographs offered a “snapshot in time” – a glimpse into life in Liverpool in the 1940s and 1950s.<\/p>\n
“Seeing them assembled for the first time, I began to realise they were more than just personal mementos and they might tell a wider story – one that others too could find of interest,” he said. <\/p>\n
The collection features pictures of his grandad’s home life in Kensington, working life at Campbell and Isherwood in Bootle, and a trip to Goodison Park to see his beloved Everton FC play.<\/p>\n
“Once I started to print them out, there was a lot more there than anyone realised,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There was pictures from his work, his family, going on holiday and stuff like that so I made them into a book just as a gift for the family.<\/p>\n
“Once they were all collated together, I realised that I had something a bit different on my hands that other people might be interested in.<\/p>\n
“That’s when I got in touch with the Liverpool Museum just to see if they’d be interested in having a look.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years passed and it was only in 2024 when he decided to develop the negatives to create a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637962,"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-637961","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\/637961","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=637961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}