Jimmy Silk
The following is the original Black & White photograph scanned from a slide.
![Jimmy Silk [Black&White]](http://www.black2colour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2011-05-30.jpg "Jimmy Silk [Black&White]")
The following is the recoloured image with an element restoration.
![Jimmy Silk [Recoloured]](http://www.black2colour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2011-05-29.jpg "Jimmy Silk [Recoloured]")
With the next example an image was recoloured from an old newspaper article.
![Jimmy Silk [BW]](http://www.black2colour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jimmysilk-BW.jpg "Jimmy Silk [BW]")
For the record here are a couple of articles from the newspaper of the time concerning Jimmy Silk the Ironman of Hotwells.
![Jimmy Silk [Newspaper Article 1]](http://www.black2colour.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jim-silk-001.jpg "Jimmy Silk [Newspaper Article 1]")
nice to see my granddad on the net .
thank you for keeping the story alive
And nice to see my Great Grandad on the net. The colour photos are great and lovely to have images to put to the story.