The photographer Ed. Chambré Hardman
Edward Chambré Hardman
Last Sunday I visited the late photographer Edward Chambré Hardman’s studio in Liverpool. The whole tour was well guided and lasted nearly two hours. Portraits were Hardman’s livelihood, but his main interest was landscape. The tour guides are not photographers themselves, not surprisingly, the focuses of the studio were put on something else.
As Edward Hardman and his wife Margaret lived in the house for many years, it’s more a museum of 20th century livings than a photographer’s exhibition. They just collected every thing they came along with and did not throw anything away, even beach shells and cobbles they had picked up during their holiday times. There is a big draw of them as the evidence!
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A very good collection of old cameras, big and small; portable and importable.
A huge collection of war time soaps. It is said that during the war time, soaps were luxuries.
An ironing board was completely made of wood.
Three-geared 28ins bicycles, for male and female respective, the engraved seats are very elegant.
A dozen of old recipe books, such as for quick and simple meals.
Lots of old trunks, metal and wooden.
Last Sunday I visited the late photographer Edward Chambré Hardman’s studio in Liverpool. The whole tour was well guided and lasted nearly two hours. Portraits were Hardman’s livelihood, but his main interest was landscape. The tour guides are not photographers themselves, not surprisingly, the focuses of the studio were put on something else.
As Edward Hardman and his wife Margaret lived in the house for many years, it’s more a museum of 20th century livings than a photographer’s exhibition. They just collected every thing they came along with and did not throw anything away, even beach shells and cobbles they had picked up during their holiday times. There is a big draw of them as the evidence!
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A very good collection of old cameras, big and small; portable and importable.
A huge collection of war time soaps. It is said that during the war time, soaps were luxuries.
An ironing board was completely made of wood.
Three-geared 28ins bicycles, for male and female respective, the engraved seats are very elegant.
A dozen of old recipe books, such as for quick and simple meals.
Lots of old trunks, metal and wooden.
A few sets of big old radios. It is said that Mr Hardman had a radio at each of his rooms.
A few medicine bottles, They are very pretty. In the past tablets might not be easy to made, so liquid medicines were common.
A huge factory act poster of 1948 on the wall of their down stair small workshop, more for Hardmans’ staff than for himself and his powerful wife, I would say.
A competed scale and weighs for post packing. Hardmans would weigh every single parcel before sending them to post offices. It could be understood that stamps were one of his big spending in those days!
The strangest thing of all was that a few jars of fruit preserves, they still look quite nice, they haven’t gong bad after so many many many years.
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