Hanbury Street Back yard photo

[Jason]

Can anyone tell me the origin of this photo ? is it an original police shot because it looks bloody old !

[Rob Clack]

Very late 1960s I believe, probably not very long before demolition in 1970.

Rob

[Tom_Wescott]

Is that not a 'screen capture', i.e. a photo taken from the screen of the James Mason program? That might explain why it looks so ancient.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[drstrange169]

Wasn't there a wooden cover over the cellar entrance “back in the day”?
I seem to remember Stewart Evans posting a picture a few years back.

[Tom_Wescott]

There's also the well-known photo of Colin Wilson standing in th open cellar. The door may have been open when this was taken, or had been removed.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Garry Wroe]

It seems to be this one, Jason ...



... which I used on the Image Enhancements thread but almost certainly found on the East End Photos thread. Doubtless you'll find a little more in the way of information there.

[Tom_Wescott]

I'm still thinking screen capture from the James Mason film.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Magpie]

That was my first thought too, Tom, but wasn't the Mason film in colour?

The first pic definitely looks like a video capture though.

[John Bennett]

Is that not a 'screen capture', i.e. a photo taken from the screen of the James Mason program? That might explain why it looks so ancient.

As Magpie says, The London Nobody Knows was in colour (and the views of the yard were taken from eye-level in any case).

There's a picture of the four Hanbury Street photos that were on display in the Ten Bells for many years. I think the image in question has been blown up and enhanced from that, which explains the pixely/grainy look. The original appears in Bill Fishman's The Streets of East London (1979). And looking at the awful state of the property, it was probably from the time of demolition or just before - as an educated guess.




JB

[Stewart P Evans]

Ten Bells

As Magpie says, The London Nobody Knows was in colour (and the views of the yard were taken from eye-level in any case).
There's a picture of the four Hanbury Street photos that were on display in the Ten Bells for many years. I think the image in question has been blown up and enhanced from that, which explains the pixely/grainy look. The original appears in Bill Fishman's The Streets of East London (1979). And looking at the awful state of the property, it was probably from the time of demolition or just before - as an educated guess.
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JB

Yes, you are right John. I remember seeing it on the wall at the Ten Bells.

[Magpie]

Seeing that picture re-enforces my belief that Richardson was lying through his teeth at the inquest.

[sdreid]

Was that photo taken from a scaffold?

[Jason]

it is a brilliant photo, so eerie and atmospheric yet probably the single reason why the recreation of 29 HS back yard has been so good in films to date.....

[Steven Russell]

Just watched The London Nobody Knows and saw James Mason in the yard. Is there anyone cooler than him? Oddly enough, before I knew this film existed, I jokingly offered my services as a JM impersonator to a Casebook member who was (and I hope still is) planning a video tour.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Garry Wroe]

For anyone who hasn't seen the James Mason documentary, I once posted some screen caps on another thread:-

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=4135