Sheffield retro: pictures show life in Sheffield in 1975 - seen in colour for the first time
It was Sheffield in the colourful days of glam rock – but in print, all was in black and white.
But now, nearly 50 years on, we have used technology to transform nostalgic black and white pictures taken in 1975, from our archives, into colour, to show the world in which we took those pictures in the colour that was the reality.
But now, nearly 50 years on, we have used technology to transform nostalgic black and white pictures taken in 1975, from our archives, into colour, to show the world in which we took those pictures in the colour that was the reality.
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00:00 It was Sheffield in the colourful days of glam rock, but in print all was still in black
00:08 and white. But now, nearly 50 years on, we have used technology to transform nostalgic
00:16 black and white pictures taken in 1975 from our archives, transforming them into colour
00:24 to show the world in which we took these pictures in the colour that was the reality of the
00:29 day. The selection of pictures we have taken ranges right across Sheffield's cultural
00:36 spectrum all the way from our schools and universities to clubs, shops and cinemas.
00:44 Some of the little details take the reader right back to the 70s with little things like
00:49 the poster of the pop group Queen in one of the images and the old style cassette player
00:55 perched on a desk. There are also pictures of crowds of city youngsters waiting to see
01:01 royal visitors lining the streets as they wait for them to arrive. The fashions and
01:07 haircuts meanwhile could scarcely come from any other era.
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