Wonderful England in the Early 1950s Taken by Hardwicke Knight _ Ye Olde England Chronicles

   

Born 1911 in the North London suburb of Stoke Newington, photographer, historian and collector Hardwicke Knight emigrated to New Zealand in 1957 to take up a medical photography position in Dunedin. He lived at Broad Bay until ten months before his death at a Dunedin nursing home.

After the First World War and before life in New Zealand, Knight's work at the NUT supplemented with freelance writing, photography, art work and editing. He was also appointed Director of Medical Photography of Enfield Group Hospitals based at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield.
Knight's publications include New Zealand's first comprehensive photographic history, many compilations of early Dunedin and Otago photographs, biographies of several early New Zealand photographers and of British photographer William Russell Sedgfield, three books of architectural history and a seminal history of the Otago Peninsula.

Knight was awarded a QSO in 1991. An eccentric polymath, he was well known for his striking appearance, his ramshackle Broad Bay cottage crammed with his collections and his self-proclaimed exploits, most notably his claim to have found timbers on Mount Ararat that might have been Noah's Ark.

These Kodachrome pictures from jaffabeaut were taken by Hardwicke Knight when he lived in England that show a beautiful life of England in the early 1950s.

Station Road, Ely

 

Thatching, Home Counties

 

The Shambles, York

 

Timber houses in Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Walberswick, Suffolk

 

Bilbury, Gloucestershire

 

Blackshore, Southwold, Suffolk

 

Boxmoor Lock

 

Boxmoor, Hertfordshire

 

Boxmoor, Hertfordshire

 

Broadworthy, Devon

 

C.C. Dunnill's shop at 145 East Barnet Road, Barnet, London. The shop of a tailor, Claud Cecil Dunnill (1879-1954)

 

Cadgwith, Cornwall

 

Canal boats in Berkhamsted

 

Carter's Mill, Wrentham, Suffolk

 

Chelsfield, South East London

 

Children on gate

 

Children outside unidentified church in England

 

Corner of Colliergate and St Andrewgate, York

 

Cornwall

 

Coronation decorations at Cirencester

 

Coventry Street, Piccadilly, London

 

Cricket field at Clavering, Essex

 

Demolition site, London

 

Drink stand, London

 

East Barnet Road and Henry Road, with Coronation decorations, London

 

East Barnet Road, Barnet, London

 

Farm buildings in Hertfordshire

 

Fore Street, Hatfield, Hertfordshire

 

Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Leicester Square, London

 

Mevagissey, Cornwall

 

Mevagissey, Cornwall

 

Mevagissey, Cornwall

 

Mevagissey, Cornwall

 

Mevagissey, Cornwall

 

Mousehole Harbour, Cornwall

 

Net sheds, Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Outside Café de Paris, London

 

Pakefield Church, Suffolk

 

Piccadilly, London

 

Portholland, Cornwall

 

Portmellon Cove, Cornwall

 

Probably near Kessingland, Suffolk

 

Sole Bay Inn, Southwold

 

Southwold, Suffolk

 

St Albans

 

St Goran's Church, Cornwall

 

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

 

St Meva, Cornwall