Sheffield retro: nostalgic pictures transformed into colour show how we lived in 1959

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00:00 They were the last days of the decade before Sheffield was transformed by the so-called

00:06 swinging 60s.

00:09 That was 1959.

00:11 It was an era before so many social changes transformed the city, and a time when young

00:17 men still had to spend time in the military doing their national service.

00:22 And the very fabric of the city was changing, with many of Sheffield's older buildings

00:26 lost, while others, such as Park Hill's flats, sprang up, very different to the homes in

00:33 the city which had been built in previous generations.

00:37 Lots was happening in Sheffield, in an era when the stars photographers covered the goings-on

00:42 in the city using black and white photography.

00:45 But of course, the world was not in black and white, it was very much in colour.

00:50 Now, decades later, the technology exists to transform some of those photos into colour.

00:57 And that is what we have done, using computers to bring new colour to those pictures.

01:03 Most are taken from the stars archives, with a few courtesy of Sheffield Council's picture

01:07 archive.

01:11 Our gallery gives you the chance to see the transformed streets.

01:15 And it also gives you the chance to look inside the buildings of that time, many of which

01:19 have changed as technology has affected the way we live our lives and do business.

01:25 Take a look at that world, in colour again for the first time in more than half a century.