Documentary and press photographer known for his work published in 'Picture Post' 1941-57. Born and grew up in Priory Buildings. Photo Histories says Bert was "the first of seven children to carpenter Albert ‘Seagull’ Hardy and Blanche, his charlady wife. The family home consisted of two small rooms at the top of Priory Buildings ... where they slept at night packed like sardines into one double bed."
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Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy, 1913 - 1995, photographer, born and grew up in The Priory. "The ...
Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family. Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts. On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA
Journalist. At art school in York in the 1940s she won a competition organised by Vogue which was the start of her career as a journalist. Investigative reporter on the Evening Standard in the 60s....
Edited the Sunday Times, from the first edition in 1822.
American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place durin...
Publisher and newspaper executive. Born Jocelyn Edward Greville Stevens in Marylebone. In 1957 he bought the high society publication 'The Queen' and revamped it as 'Queen'. In the 1960s he provide...
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