"This is a long-shot but here goes! In my early-teens my family lived in Nigeria where my father was a university lecturer and I have maintained my contacts with Igboland on and off for more than 50 years. I'm a member of a Facebook group named…"
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"I have been in contact with the secretary of the Strathclyde Hotel when it opened in 1964, she says that the photograph is not in the hotel and is unlikely to be in any other building in Corby as she new the town very well. So back to square one!"
"And ... Corby Borough Council has a lottery-funded project, “Collecting Corby” http://www.culturesyndicates.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Collecting-Corby-v2.pdf"
"The venerable Francis Frith has photos, maps and memories of Corby at https://www.francisfrith.com/corby"
"Fascinating building. I suspect health and safety concerns caused a rethink of the high windows running up each end of the building and the elements were strengthened - particularly the horizontal element at waist height. Great bit of research…"
"Hello again - The Strathclyde Hotel in Corby built around 1960 and is the possible location for your picture. If so your original instincts were right. Robert Rennie would be in his early 60s, with maybe his wife Jessie as model. The hotel would be…"
"Well , Rennie is a good Scottish name so the eastern European idea seems to be out of the window. Interesting research!."
"I looked up the residents of 117 Stephenson Way, Corby in the 1939 England and Wales Register. They are Robert Rennie (born 1901), furnaceman, and his wife Jessie Rennie, plus children Agnes and Ian."
"I suggest contacting the Corby Photographic Club https://www.corbyphotoclub.co.uk. This has the feel of a 1930s photo club competition print to me. From what I see online the Corby Photographic Club was founded in 1936 as the camera club of the…"
"117 Stephenson Way looks like a 1930s council estate."
"Many thanks for taking time to comment. I think that I'll aim to find a photographer who knows Corby well in the hope that they might understand the reference to "117 Stephenson Way" and that they might also be able to confirm or…"
"https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/corby-steel-town A few films on the BFI website might shed some light. Corby was also declared a New Town in 1950 and underwent huge development so that might be a direction to look into. Good…"
"I agree with Geoff, a sort of Bauhaus feel to the architecture. What an intriguing image."
"This image has the feel of Eastern Europe before the second world war. The view through the window looks like an encampment. Corby was a steel town with many workers coming from Scotland and possibly further afield.
Its a lovely picture."
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Woman at the Great Window (Photographer unknown)
I bought this framed photograph (print 283 x 232 mm) a week or so before Covid-19 locked us down and it has been propped against a wall in my study waiting for me to decide what to do with it.
I was initially drawn to its 1950s-ish B&W compositional style of abstract lines and blocks of light and shade…
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