History in colour: Amazing old images brought to life with colour

There is a unrepealable successors of Photoshop versifier with a passion for history and a keen eye for detail who take it upon themselves to outbreathe new life into important historic photos.

When you have an idea of the level of effort that goes into these colourisations, you can't help but be impressed. Hours of painstaking effort, tiny mouse strokes and detailed wringer go into every photo.

The result is an impressive and sometimes moving transformation of a photo which might otherwise have spent decades only stuff seen in woebegone and white.

We've hunted lanugo some of the weightier examples of colourised photos to have graced the internet. Some of the photos here stage when well over a century and requite us a new view of a yesterday era.