Documentary and press photographer known for his work published in 'Picture Post' 1941-57. Born and grew up in Priory Buildings. says Bert was "the first of seven children to carpenter Albert ‘Seagull’ Hardy and Blanche, his charlady wife. The family home consisted of two small rooms at the top of Priory Buildings ... where they slept at night packed like sardines into one double bed."
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Bert Hardy
Founded in early June 1841 at a meeting at the Edinburgh Castle public house in the Strand, attended by Henry Mayhew, brewery manager Mark Lemon, and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Â The first issue wa...
William James Stillman was born on 1 June 1828 in Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, USA, the youngest of the eleven children of William Stillman III (1779-1861) and Elizabeth Ward Stillman...
Person, Art, Benefactor, Journalism / Publishing, Photography, Balkans, Greece, Italy, USA
Newspaper, founded by John Walter on 1st January 1785 as The London Daily Universal Register and renamed as The Times on 1st January 1803. It was the first newspaper to send war correspondents to c...
There are records of the Thames freezing over as far back as CE 250. The piers of old London Bridge were broad and close together, meaning that they could get easily blocked creating a dam which wo...
Born San Francisco. A self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper man. The model for Citizen Kane.
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