File 3 - Second Court: general photographs

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SJCR/SJPH/1/4/3

Unique identifier

GB 1859 SJCR/SJPH/1/4/3

Title

Second Court: general photographs

Date(s)

  • 1932-1996 (Creation)

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16 items. Paper.

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(1946-1983)

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

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Includes: Prints of Second Court showing room interiors; the restoration of the Shrewsbury Tower (site of the observatory) and the inscription discovered in K Staircase.

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The items are stored together:

  • 5/ALBUM (Sl 34, 49-59): General photographs of Second Court

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© Edward Leigh
© Cambridge City Council

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  • 5/ALBUM (Sl 54) accompanied the article "The Master's Tower" by Max Newman, Fellow, published in The Eagle Volume 47 (Michaelmas Term 1932).

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  • 5/Album (Sl 34, 50-53, 56): Taken by Edward Leigh
  • 5/Album (Sl 54): Taken by G.E. Briggs
  • 5/Album (Sl 58-59): Taken by Cambridge City Council Development Control

Alternative identifier(s)

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GPH1.5.44-47

Former Ref.

GPH1.5.55

Former Ref.

GPH1.5.57-58

Former Ref.

GPH1.5.60

Former Ref.

GPH1.5.73, 73(2)

Former Ref.

D33/30/3/1-6

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  • Box: 5/ALBUM