dreward
17-09-2007, 10:37 AM
First of all I hope this is the right section to post this query - it is the nearest I can find for the subject.
Many of you may remember a weekly magazine from the 50s called "Picture Post". It started well before the war by Sir Edward Hulton but eventually was withdrawn in 1957. It was stuffed with all sorts of interesting titbits of information and had varying degrees of serious-ity(new word), one item of which appeared I think in the year 1954 but could have been a year either side.
A far off relative of mine was owner of a pottery in Stoke on Trent and just happened to own one of the first converted canal barges, the Danube, made into travelling holiday home and based at Froghall on the Caldon Canal. I used to go holidaying with this relative and his children all over the canal system between 1953-55.
It was on one of these holidays a photographer from the "Picture Post" came a took a series of photos, one of which appeared in the magazine as part of a story on the pottery. Recently, 4 years ago, I was able to get a copy (of a copy) of that photo but whilst all the people are just recogniseable, they are blurred.
What I want to try and get is a better photo.
Picture Post and as far as I can understand was sold to BBC has since been taken over and run by the Getty-Hulton Library
I have been trying to trace that photo via that organisation but have come up across a massive brick wall or else it is my incompetance that prevents me finding any related story.
If anyone has any experience in tracing stories/photos from the Hulton library could they pass on a few tips.
Much obliged and sorry about the long-windedness
Dave
Utrecht Holland
Many of you may remember a weekly magazine from the 50s called "Picture Post". It started well before the war by Sir Edward Hulton but eventually was withdrawn in 1957. It was stuffed with all sorts of interesting titbits of information and had varying degrees of serious-ity(new word), one item of which appeared I think in the year 1954 but could have been a year either side.
A far off relative of mine was owner of a pottery in Stoke on Trent and just happened to own one of the first converted canal barges, the Danube, made into travelling holiday home and based at Froghall on the Caldon Canal. I used to go holidaying with this relative and his children all over the canal system between 1953-55.
It was on one of these holidays a photographer from the "Picture Post" came a took a series of photos, one of which appeared in the magazine as part of a story on the pottery. Recently, 4 years ago, I was able to get a copy (of a copy) of that photo but whilst all the people are just recogniseable, they are blurred.
What I want to try and get is a better photo.
Picture Post and as far as I can understand was sold to BBC has since been taken over and run by the Getty-Hulton Library
I have been trying to trace that photo via that organisation but have come up across a massive brick wall or else it is my incompetance that prevents me finding any related story.
If anyone has any experience in tracing stories/photos from the Hulton library could they pass on a few tips.
Much obliged and sorry about the long-windedness
Dave
Utrecht Holland