Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJPH/1/6/3
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1950-1988 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
28 items. Paper.
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Edward Leigh was born in 1913 and died in 1998. Edward Leigh was one of the few professional photographers to obtain a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society as well as a Fellowship of the professional photographer's own body, then entitled the Institute of British Photographers.His photographic career spanned over 50 years. Before the Second World War he worked as a fashion photographer and a stills cameraman for Fox Film Studios, later 20th Century Fox. During the war his printing skills were employed by RAF Oakington to process aerial recognizance photographs which were assembled into the mosaic maps used by Bomber Command.
Following the war Leigh open his own studio on Kings Parade in Cambridge. He did a great deal of work for the Colleges and the University. Leigh was also recognised as a skilled architectural and industrial photographer. In the 1960s, Leigh also worked as a 'stringer' for the Times Newspaper providing photographs for local news stories.
When he retired in 1983, his son John Edward Leigh continued the business until 1985 when the studio closed.
For more information see: http://www.fadingimages.uk/photoLe.asp
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
6/Album (Sl. 6) given by R.G. Badcock.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Prints showing general views of New Court and the Bridge of Sighs. Includes views of New Court outhouses, bath house, and tennis courts.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The items are stored together:
6/ALBUM
- Sl 1-7: Prints of various views of New Court including front, rear, paddock, river, etc.
- Sl 8-9: Prints of Bridge of Sighs' interior and exterior.
- Sl 75-80: Prints showing creeper vines and damage caused by them within New Court.
- Sl 81-86: Prints of wooden river walling south of Kitchen Bridge.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
© Edward Leigh
© The Cambridge Photographers
© Tempest's