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SJCR/SJPH/1/4/1
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- 1959-1994 (Creation)
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37 items. Paper.
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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
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Includes: 23 prints of the restoration of the kitchen range and rooms above (c. 1960-1961) showing details of roof beams, rafters and wood deterioration; also includes a B&W print of the west face of the kitchen after restoration and 13 colour prints of the newly refurbished interior of the College Kitchen (1994).
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The items are stored together:
5/ALBUM
- Sl 11-33: Kitchen restoration (c.1959-61)
- Sl 35: West face of the kitchen after restoration
- Sl 36-48: Interior refurbishment of the kitchens (1994)
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© Edward Leigh
© Michael Manni
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- 5/ALBUM (Sl 11-33): Taken by Edward Leigh
- 5/ALBUM (Sl 36-48): Taken by Michael Manni Photographic