Anyone recognise this image?

[Goldilox]

Ok, I know it's the High House, but I would very much like to know who took the picture.

I bought this postcard on ebay recently with the idea of incorporating it into a design, but in order to do so, I need to track down who owns the image rights.

So far I know it was printed by ETW Dennis in Scarborough. I've tracked down the company who bought out Dennis in the early 2000s & they say they only own the rights to print it as a postcard with the original photographer retaining copyright for any other use. Dennis used to license images from local photographers, but the records of who they were didn't make it to the new company.

It's postmarked Nov 1974 (with a 3 1/2p stamp!), so it must have been taken in the early 70s.

If anyone knows the image I'd love to know who took it.

 

[Wormella]

Is it worth contacting the Staffordshire Photography Society - there's a chance someone there might know?

 

[whitelion]

Corr Harry Fenton, used to buy the latest gear in there.

 

[Gramaisc]

What is now McDonalds was built fairly soon after Bratt and Dyke knocked down the old Brookfield's shop, which they acquired with that intention in 1965. They soon went and Cantor's furniture shop occupied it in the intervening years.

It looks possible that the picture was taken from a window in the Bear?

 

[number9]

It looks possible that the picture was taken from a window in the Bear?

wrong angle for the Bear. its more likely from the window of the row of shops next to st chads

 

[John Marwood]

Corr Harry Fenton, used to buy the latest gear in there.

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[Withnail]

It may be worth a visit to the William Salt Library - much wisdom resides there.

 

[Goldilox]

What is now McDonalds was built fairly soon after Bratt and Dyke knocked down the old Brookfield's shop, which they acquired with that intention in 1965. They soon went and Cantor's furniture shop occupied it in the intervening years.

It looks possible that the picture was taken from a window in the Bear?

wrong angle for the Bear. its more likely from the window of the row of shops next to st chads

I worked out the angles when I was in town today & I'm pretty sure it was taken from the roof of what's now Pandora. Given the age of that row of shops I did wonder if it might have been shot from the scaffolding while they were building them.

 

[Gramaisc]

I worked out the angles when I was in town today & I'm pretty sure it was taken from the roof of what's now Pandora. Given the age of that row of shops I did wonder if it might have been shot from the scaffolding while they were building them.

I think Dale's was obliterated before Brookfield's was.

But there may have been some overlap in the reconstruction phases.

 

[John Marwood]

A list of photographers working locally in that period

Peter Rogers
Tony Boydon
Lionel Holland
Frank Allen
Ted Black
Benzies
Brown


At least three are dead

The proportion of use of the image in an artwork may determine whether an infringement of copyright has taken place

As you may already know

 

[Noah]

Do your own sketch/drawing/painting based on the photograph and that is your intellectual property and copyright not the photographers.

 

[Gramaisc]

Do your own sketch/drawing/painting based on the photograph and that is your intellectual property and copyright not the photographers.

Then you could alter the shop-fronts - and even put Brookfield's back.

 

[John Marwood]

Do your own sketch/drawing/painting based on the photograph and that is your intellectual property and copyright not the photographers.

Not necessarily so

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/01/hope-image-flap/amp

 

[ChrisLewis]

When were the sandon steps built at the front of the high house?

 

[Gramaisc]

When were the sandon steps built at the front of the high house?

Did they come with the renovation work in the early '80s?