When you look at black & white photos, you always wonder what colours the people in the images were actually seeing.

Certain groups on Reddit do their best to make that a reality.

r/ColorizedHistory is a collective of professional and amateur colorizers who use a mix of historical material and a natural eye for colour to bring old photos into the present day.

Here are their impressive attempts and you can visit their page on Reddit by clicking here:

This original black and white photograph was taken by Toni Frissell in London in 1945. Depicting an abandoned boy sitting amid the ruins of war, it was colorized by HansLucifer.

The 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster is one of history's most iconic images. The version below was colorized by Dana Keller who captures illuminates the sheer scale of the catastrophe.

This image of Japanese archers dates back to about 1860 and was colorized by Jordan J Lloyd.

This photo from 1939 was colorized by zuzahin on Reddit and shows an unemployed lumber worker

This car crash from 1921 is resurrected by Sanna Dullaway.

The hues of the sea soak back into the colorized version of Albert Einstein in Long Island in 1939. Colorized by Edvos on Reddit

Dorothea Lange reinvigorates this 1939 image of a country store in the rural USA.

W H Murphy of the Protective Garment Corp shows the efficacy of his company's bulletproof vest in 1923. It was colorized by zuzahin on Reddit

This photo of a young boy in a Baltimore slum in 1938 was colorized by John Vachon.