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Museum Steps
This is a view of Liverpool from the steps of Liverpool Museum. This was taken just after the Second World War and is a view of Whitechapel, Manchester Street.Hardman attempted to capture the effect of lighting up time at dusk which he found hard due to the residual light in the sky tending to eclipse the light coming from the street lamps. The scene is covered in snow showing it was taken in winter. A number of figures are in the background. Two cars are parked outside the museum but the roads are clear except for one bus. The clouds are dark which contrast well with the snow. The lamp and railing from the steps are in the foreground and frame the snow covered scene. He creates an effect of evening light by making the print toned with gold to give it a blue cast.
Mersey Tunnel Dock Road Entrance
This shows the entrance to the Mersey tunnel from the Dock Road. Horses and carts, cars, and tramlines can be seen on the street. The overhead railway is visible in the bottom left of the composition, with an advertisement for 'Walkers Imperial Stout' on the railings.
Ford Prefect, c 1950s-1960s.
Cinema advertisement produced for the Ford Motor Company promoting the Ford Prefect - 'outstanding value for money!' The Prefect, like Ford's Anglia and Popular models, was an inexpensive family car designed and built by Ford UK between 1953 and 1959. This advertisement was displayed on cinemas screens between film showings to promote the car.
Princes car, c 1907.
Print. One of a series of designs for various types of horse-drawn transport by J & C Cooper published in the Coachbuilders and Wheelwrights' Art Journal.
Europleasure International Ltd
This is a photograph of an impressive building built in 1784, located in Nelson St, Liverpool which leads onto Great George Street. The image was taken from the other side of the road to enable Hardman to effectively photograph the whole of this building. The building has a row of cars parked outside of it which seems to date it to the 1970s, and a sign reading Europleasure International Ltd. outside it.
Ford Anglia 100E, 1953-1959.
Cinema advertisement produced for the Ford Motor Company promoting the Ford Anglia - 'Beyond Comparison'. The Anglia was a small, inexpensive two-door car designed and built by Ford UK between 1953 and 1959. The poster incorporates an element of artistic licence, making the car seem larger than it was in reality. The Anglia 100E was very popular, selling strongly until superseded by the Anglia 105E in 1959. This advertisement was displayed on cinema creens between film showings.
Northgate Street
Photograph of Northgate Street in Chester. The image is of Northgate street with a Sign for Northgate Terrace down one of the alleys. There are a few cars on the road and a number of pedestrians walking along the road. The Hardmans had a second studio in Chester from 1938-1958.
University, Bedford Street South
Photograph of Bedford Street South with an interesting contrast of architectural materials and styles. To the left of the composition are the Georgian buildings which house the Music department with trees and cars parked outside. On the other side of the road, on the far right of the image is the concrete Rendall building designed and built in the 1960s. In the distance Buildings on Abercromby Square are visible.
Edward Chambré Hardman with Camera and Car
This is an image of the photographer, Edward Chambré Hardman, taken by his wife Margaret. It show him standing up in his car, park on a country road, with its roof partially down. He is holding a camera and looking at the sky with it's dark clouds above him. In many of Hardman's landscape images, such as The Rick" 770 ECH/1/1/003 , clouds play a significant part in the composition.
Ralli Car, 1906.
Print. One of a series of designs for various types of horse-drawn transport by J & C Cooper published in the Coachbuilders and Wheelwrights' Art Journal.
De Dion Bouton, 1904 and Lanchester, 1903.
Two colour offset lithograph made between 1965-1980, showing a pair of veteran cars. Printed in ink on foolscap paper using a Rotaprint, the image was produced as a demonstration of printing in the Science Museum's Printing Gallery.
Overhead Railway and Dock Road 2
Photograph of a very busy street scene with a variety of different types of transport on Dock Road, Liverpool. In the background the tops of masts are visible showing the picture was taken very close to the river Mersey with buildings of Prince's Dock East in front. The overhead railway is clear in this image with advertising for Walker's brewery on the side it says Walker's Warrington & Falstaff Ales and Walker's Highland Whisky. The traffic moving away from the camera next to the railway is varied. There are a few cars but mainly horse-drawn carts which are transporting goods to the dock area. One of these carts says "Hovis" on the back of it. In the distance there is a very old style van/lorry with "Armstrong, Litherland & Crosby, Liverpool" written on the side. The traffic is three vans and one horse drawn cart with barrels on. Along the road a number of cars and carts are parked. Tram tracks run along this area in a number of directions and the wires needed to power them cut across most of the image due to the angle the photograph was taken at.
'Motorail - You're Chauffer Driven All the Way..', BR poster, 1982.
'Motorail - You've Chauffer Driven All the Way .. and You Just Sleep Away the Miles'. Poster produced for British Rail (BR) Motorail, promoting overnight services whereby pasengers' cars could be transported by rail while the pasenger himself travelled in comfort in a sleeper compartment. The illustration shows a man reading in bed on board a train, while on the roads drivers queue in traffic jams in the rain. Printed in Great Britain by Xeniacrest Ltd.
Welshpool Street Scene, Early Morning
This is a street scene was taken in the early morning in Welshpool (Y Trallwng), Wales. There are two old men talking on the corner of the street. In the distance a car is driving along the road.
Dock Road Traffic
This is an image of the traffic on the Dock Road, Liverpool. It shows a number of cars and vans, many with items in the back which have either just come from the dock or are heading there to be transported. One of the vans says Haulage Contractor above the drivers seat. Tram tracks are visible on the road.
Unidentified Petrol Pumps
Photograph of petrol pumps outside Bollingbroke Automobile Co. Ltd. in Prestbury, Cheshire. The photograph was taken from the other side of the road, and signs to the car park, and to Wilmslow and Stockport can be seen. To the left and right of the image are houses.
De Dion Bouton, poster, c 1910.
Coloured lithograph by Madeline Lemaire (1845-1928) after a drawing by Henri Thiriet (active 1895-1910). The original lithograph was made for the De Dion Bouton motor car company to publicise the Model K car. A very modern young lady, dresed in the latest fashion, is shown driving her two-seater coupe at high speed along a coastal road in Northern France with her black chaffeur seated by her side. The black servant was modelled on the Marquis de Dion's Abysinian manservant. One of the first cars to use De Dion's highly succesful single-cylinder engine, the Model K was built at the company's new premises on the Quai National in Puteaux, Paris.
Ralli Car, c 1903.
Print. One of a series of designs for various types of horse-drawn transport by J & C Cooper published in the Coachbuilders and Wheelwrights' Art Journal.