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A photographic print of Industry, Fuel & Power - Coal, Miners - Miscellaneous

1957
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "One Who Prefers Them to Stick Around". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "King of street-traders is Jim Rumble. His art: a genial compound of oaths and insult. His science: to sell £100-worth of stuff in a morning." Photographer's stamp on verso.

One Who Prefers Them to Stick Around

1949
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, titled "Atlantic transfer". Photographer's stamp and editorial markup on verso. Published in the March 21 1942 issue of Picture Post, story titled "A trawler in war-time. Hardy was sent to Fleetwood, Lancashire, along with fellow photographer Bert Lloyd, to take photographs aboard a fishing trawler. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Atlantic transfer

1941
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy. Iconic photograph of two boys playing in The Gorbals slums of Glasgow, in 1948. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Boys of The Gorbals

31 January 1948
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Overcrowding that is Typical of Conditions in the Coloured Quarters of Some British Towns." Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "Mrs. Johnson lives with two daughters, whose husbands are seamen, and eleven grandchildren. She and six grandchildren sleep in three beds in this room: Mrs. Johnson and two children in the bed, top right, three children in the bed on the left, and an older grand-daughter in the bed in the foreground." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Overcrowding that is Typical of Conditions in the Coloured Quarters of Some British Towns

1949
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy. Image shows members of the Sudanese pro-Egypt ASHIGGA Party during an anti-Britain demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, autumn 1951. Taken using a Rolleiflex camera with Peanut flash bulb synchronised at 25th sec. f/11. Photographer's stamp on verso. Picture Post/Bert Hardy stamp on verso.

Members of Sudanese Pro-Egypt ASHIGGA Party

1951
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, titled "The Tour de France passes by". Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Tour de France passes by

1951
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Air of an Industrial Present". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Railway arches everywhere. And under every other arch, a coal-yard. The coalman's wagon is a vital part of the Elephant's sooty scene." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Air of an Industrial Present

1949
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The One Who Takes It All to Heart". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Sunday the lay-in, the divorce news in bed, the sobering brass of the Salvation Army, and a discreet harangue in streets deserted of all but the chastened children." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The One Who Takes It All to Heart

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Part of the Image of the Elephant: The Horse Dealers". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "The face of the Elephant wears all expressions -- victorious, defeated, homely and hoodlum. The live look of the working girl, the dead pan of the wide boy. The waggish grin of the barrow-monger buying a pony in the Horse repository. Faces to laugh at. Faces to wink at. Faces that hit you like a blow." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Part of the Image of the Elephant: The Horse Dealers

1949
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image shows how Hardy produced the panoramic photo of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the Paris Opera in 1957. Hardy had no wide-angle lens, so he took consecutive photographs of different sections of the scene. These separate shots were joined up in a jigsaw to create the picture below. Originally published in Picture Post, April 20, 1957. Photographer's stamp on verso.

How Bert Hardy Photographed the Queen's Visit to Paris

20 April 1957
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "School in the Open-Air on the Siwunula Native Reserve". Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1956. Story titled "The Birth of a New Nation", about Rhodesia. Image shows a mother and baby on a native reserve in what is now Zimbabwe. Caption in magazine reads: "School is compulsory for children between six and fourteen." Photographer's stamp on verso. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Open-Air School on the Siwunula Native Reserve

1956
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Waiting Room Where Even Elephant Folk Are Subdued". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Some come with a sore chest from a damp house. Some come with a boy sick from a salmon tin. All wait for the overworked doctor in his bombed and shored-up surgery." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Waiting Room Where Even Elephant Folk Are Subdued

1949
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Night of the Blitz:." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "The night is dark. The city is silent. On the roofs of high buildings stand the spotters. Overhead the pulsing drone of enemy bombers. Suddenly a bomb falls, then another. Somewhere, a burning building starts to light up the sky. Immediately the warning is given." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Night of the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "In Thousands of Similar Basements Live Tens of Thousands of Similar Folk: Yet Each Is Different". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "There are countless rooms like it at the Elephant, innumerable folk in the same image. Yet every one is special. The hunger, the love, the dreams and imaginations, are all shared by all, yet particular to each. One contemplates a new job, another a new boy-friend. Somebody plans to bath a baby. Somebody plans to burgle a baker's. Somebody wonders if her husband's untrue. Somebody wonders how much he'll make tonight at his chestnut can." Photographer's stamp on verso.

In Thousands of Similar Basements Live Tens of Thousands of Similar Folk: Yet Each Is Different

1949
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, titled "Liverpool's coloured quarter". Image shows black British residents of Liverpool. Taken for a 1949 Picture Post story titled "Is there a British colour bar?" Photographer's stamp on verso

Liverpool's coloured quarter

1949
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled Preparing Groundnuts." Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1956. Story titled "The Birth of a New Nation", about Rhodesia. Image shows a mother and baby on a native reserve in what is now Zimbabwe. Caption in magazine reads: "The Reserve in which she lives is thirty miles long by twelve wide, and lies between Salisbury and Bulawayo. Each family has nine acres for crops and a smaller plot for vegetables. The Reserve grows maize, rice, buts and beans. But many work in the nearest town." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Preparing Groundnuts

1956
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Is There a British Colour Bar?" Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Is There a British Colour Bar - Contact sheet

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Emblem of the Cockney World". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Seven bridges point straight to it. Six traffic arteries meet at its heart, From the top of the pub, the elephant with its castle dominates London's liveliest domain." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Emblem of the Cockney World

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Self-portrait of Hardy wearing a trilby hat and tweed coat. He is holding a Contax camera. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Photograph of Bert Hardy

circa 1930s
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Man on the Ladder: In Clouds of Smoke and Steam He Faces the Fire Alone." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "All night long they have fought the fire. They have fought in the streets streaming with water. They have fought it within buildings blazing like a furnace. On to the flames they have poured a hundred thousand gallons of water, concentrated at colossal pressure. And still the fight goes on. From our rule of anonymity we except these pictures. They were taken by A. Hardy [sic], one of our own cameramen." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Man on the Ladder

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "A Ghost Strayed from Old Greece". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Corinthian pillars in a Hogarthian slum. In the burnt-out Metropolitan Tabernacle, Victorian preacher Spurgeon raised his warning voice on Thursdays and Sundays." Photographer's stamp on verso.

A Ghost Strayed from Old Greece

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Old-Age Pensioner". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Rustic among Cockneys is Charles Hobson (82), former gamekeeper and artist's model." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Old-Age Pensioner

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "A Drop." Originally published in Picture Post, August 1, 1953. Story titled "Picture Post Takes a River Trip to Southend". Image shows a group of four men enjoying beer during a pleasure boat cruise along the Thames to Southend. Caption in magazine reads: "A drop or two of what you fancy, you can keep all your concert party artistes." Photographer's stamp on verso.

A Drop

1953
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Where Society Knows No Colour Prejudice: Liverpool School-children at Play." Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "On the roof of Windsor Street County School, in the South End of Liverpool, white and coloured children play naturally together. They attach no meaning to differences of colour. A white and coloured child will often be 'best friends'. From such children society can learn a valuable lesson." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Where Society Knows No Colour Prejudice: Liverpool School-children at Play

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Elephant's Rich Variety: Its Country Past". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Few know the rusty-looking smithy in Burman Street. Yet 80-year-old William Surridge has been blacksmith here for half his life." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Elephant's Rich Variety

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Firemen Rush Down to Man the Engines." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 194. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "The bells ring. The indicators light up. In a few seconds the firemen are in the Appliance Room and manning their engines." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Firemen Rush Down to Man the Engines

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Millions Like Her." Originally published in Picture Post, January 13, 1951. Story titled "Millions Like Her". Image shows Birmingham shop girl Betty Burden, speaking to a neighbourhood boy from the window of the family home. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Millions Like Her

1951
Contact sheet cut into two strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "One Who's Seen Them Come and Go". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "Local brides get bouquets, local corpses get wreaths from Lal Brown (centre). She's been here 50 years odd, since she was eight." Photographer's stamp on verso.

One Who's Seen Them Come and Go

1949
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "As the Sun Sets." Originally published in Picture Post, September 15, 1956. Story titled "Where the Rice is Sweet", about rice harvesting in Portugal. Caption in magazine reads: "As the sun sets the last rice is carried onto the wagons. Once its cultivation, thought to spread malaria, was banned. Now it is a major item in the trade balance." Photographer's stamp on verso.

As the Sun Sets

1956
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image shows two young boys in the Gorbals slums in Glasgow. Published in Picture Post, January 31, 1948. Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Gorbals

31 January 1948
Silver gelatin contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985.Photos taken with a Box Brownie camera in Blackpool. Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1951. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Blackpool - Taken on a Box Brownie

1951
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Prospect for Elephant Baby". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "When she grows up her bath will still be a basin. Unless she moves. Or the Elephant changes." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Prospect for Elephant Baby

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Social Segregation That Can Lead to Trouble." Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "In most towns coloured people live together in close communities. In such communities grievances are brooded on more bitterly." Photographer's stamp on verso.

Social Segregation That Can Lead to Trouble

1949
Contact sheet cut into two strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
A collection of contact sheets and prints, 1938-1956, incorporated in the exhibition `Bert Hardy at Work: The Picture Post Years', NMPFT, 1985.

Images made for 'Bert Hardy at Work: The Picture Post Years'

1938-1956
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, titled "North Korean prisoners receive medical attention at South Korean prison camp". Image taken during the Korean War. Photographer's stamp on verso.

North Korean prisoners receive medical attention at South Korean prison camp

1950
Vintage silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, showing Hardy sitting on the side of a dirt road in South Korea while assigned by Picture Post to cover the Korean War. Hardy travelled to Korea with Jimmy Cameron in August 1950. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Bert Hardy in Korea

1950
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "A Foothold in Hades." An alternate shot was published in Picture Post, Vol. 49 No. 1, October 7, 1950, in a Korean War story titled "Inchon". Photographer's stamp on verso.

A Foothold in Hades 2

1950
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Rocket-launching Ships Go in to the Kill." Originally published in Picture Post, October 7, 1950. Story titled "Inchon", about the Korean War. Caption in magazine reads: "Slavoes of five-inch projectiles tear into the beaches about to be stormed, and into the town about to be liberated." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Rocket-launching Ships Go in to the Kill

1950
Poster, Senior railcard advertisement, We Grew Up Together...You've No Idea How Wonderful It Will Be To See And Laugh With Her Again, old sepia photograph of two women talking at the seaside, printed by the Ad Apt Advertising & Design Company after the original photograph by Bert Hardy. Format: double royal. Dimensions: 40 x 25 inches, 1016 x 635mm.

We Grew Up Together...You've No Idea How Wonderful It Will Be To See And Laugh With Her Again

Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "This is What Happens to Humanity When It is Liberated Twice Within Three Months." Originally published in Picture Post, October 7, 1950. Story titled "Inchon", about the Korean War. Caption in magazine reads: "When humanity gets given 'the works', in twentieth-century style, it passes beyond tragedy. Its old ones caper round like crazy goats, its young ones put out more crazy flags in a confused desire to please, its crazy infants surrender in advance, and its spokesmen utter their final crazy verdict 'Sank you!' Which, being interpreted, means that humanity, with the best will in the world, can stand no more liberations like this." Photographer's stamp on verso.

This is What Happens to Humanity When It is Liberated Twice Within Three Months

1950
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "A Foothold in Hades: Over the Sea-wall and Into the Night Go the Leading Men of the United States First Marine Division." Originally published in Picture Post, Vol. 49 No. 1, October 7, 1950, in a Korean War story titled "Inchon". Photographer's stamp on verso.

A Foothold in Hades

1950
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "And No-one's Taking a Chance." Image shows civilians coming out of a house with their hands up, following the liberation of Incheon during the Korean War. Originally published in Picture Post, October 7, 1950. Photographer's stamp on verso.

South Korean Civilians After Liberation of Incheon

1950
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "On the Curb of a Liverpool Pavement a Coloured British Subject Expresses the Indignation of His People". Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "Officially there is no colour bar in Britain. But from restaurant-keepers and landladies, employers and employees, even from the man in the street, says Nathaniel Ajayi, he and his people meet with considerable colour prejudice. Ajayi has lived in five European countries, was a British Prisoner-of-war in Germany, but says he knows of no European country where the coloured man is treated with more unofficial contempt than in Britain." Photographer's stamp on verso.

On the Curb of a Liverpool Pavement a Coloured British Subject Expresses the Indignation of His People

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Gloomy Yard That Fails to Damp the Spirit". Originally published in Picture Post Vol. 42, No. 2, January 8, 1949. Story titled "Life in the Elephant", about everyday life in London's Elephant and Castle neighbourhood. Caption in magazine reads: "A losing battle with the grimy air. Two bob where four should be. And nowhere to keep the baby's pram. Yet still the local housewife is a battler, whose tone has eloquence and force." Photographer's stamp on verso.

The Gloomy Yard That Fails to Damp the Spirit

1949