BBC Breakfast shines light on long lost photos of Coventry coventrytelegraph.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coventrytelegraph.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Photographer needs help to identify people in Coventry photos rescued from skip coventrytelegraph.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coventrytelegraph.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
coventry have been digitised thanks to the painstaking work of volunteers. the negatives, dating from the 1940s to the 60s were rescued from a skip and belong to press photographer arthur cooper. they ve been released online by coventry university. the first i heard of the arthur cooper find was when i visited coventry digital s office, and when i saw it ijust couldn t believe that there were over 8000 photographs, none of which had been identified. arthur was a freelance photographer and he worked the coventry patch for birmingham post and mail, midland daily news. arthur passed away quite a few years ago. the coventry telegraph archivist walked past arthur s house, outside of which was a skip, and the negatives were being put into the skip. and so they were rescued and they went to mirrorpix down in watford and they have cleaned them up and given them