From the Archives ....

Our Club was founded in 1902 and we've been down into the vault to bring you a few highlights from the print collection. We also reprint an old Club Rule Book at the foot of the page ...

 

 

Prints by Harold Walker

All images are copyright

 

 

"Curiosity"  1951                                                                                         "In old Whitby"  1950

Certificate of Merit, IAC Exhibition                                                       Won the Hunt Shield for best print, IAC Exhibition          

Yorkshire World Photo Fair & Exhibition 1952                                  Yorkshire World Photo Fair & Exhibition 1952               

N&EMPF Exhibition 1952

 

           

"Lincoln Cathedral" 1948                                                         "Still Life"   Undated 

IAC Annual Exhibition 1949

Midland Bank Art Club Exhibition 1949

Yorkshire World Photo Fair & Exhibition 1952

 

• Editor's note - if you find the monkey picture unsettling, as I do, then imagine that the monkey is on the outside feeling sorry for us in the cage ... of course this image was taken nearly 60 years ago and people's sensibilities change.

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Prints by J.D. (Jim) Godber ARPS

All the images in this section are copyright J D Godber's Estate and Ilkeston Arts & Camera Club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young Jim Godber on a 1920s or 1930s Ilkeston Arts Club outing. 

 

 

 

 

"Early one morning"  1932                                                      "Grape Lane, Whitby"  1930 

 Displayed at the 9th Midland Salon of Photography       Second Prize in the Daily Herald Sunny Snaps Competition

                                                                                                          IACC Centenary Exhibition 2002

 

"Three fishers" 1933                                                                              "Morning Sunshine" 1950

Exhibited at the 10th Midland Salon of Photography                 Exhibited at the first N&EMPF Exhibition

 

          

Jim at the 1954 IAC exhibition with his print                  "Lathkilldale"  1954 

'Lathkilldale' which won the Hunt Challenge                    IAC Exhibition 1954 

Shield for best print                                                                    IAC Centenary Exhibition 2002

 

        

"The Moon's silvery path"  1935                                                 "Sunlit cottages"  1928 - Our oldest JD Godber print

Nottingham & Notts Exhibition 1935                                      Exhibited at the 5th Midland Salon of Photography

                                                                                                              Birmingham Photographic Society Exhibition 1928

                                                                                                              Rotherham Photographic Society Exhibition 

 

    

"Still Life"  1929                                                                              "Flatford"  1961

Exhibited at the 6th Midland Salon of Photography           Accepted for NEMPF Exhibition 1961

Exhibited at Rotherham Photographic Society

 

  

"September Morning" 1967                                                                                     "A game of patience"  undated - 1950's?

1967 N&EMPF Exhibition                                                                                       Believed to be Jim's wife and daughter (left) waiting with resignation

                                                                                                                                         in a way familiar to all photographers' families for him to 'get that last shot'.

 

• You can see more of J D Godber's images and archive movie footage of the Erewash Valley and Derbyshire on our DVD "Jim's lens updated" - contact us for details.

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Members might be interested in this copy of the Ilkeston Arts Club Rules which was unearthed during an archaeological 'dig' recently. Its date is uncertain, but it seems to pre-date N&EMPF, which would make it at least 1950. I think this means that if I pay fifty two and a half pence I can be a Vice-President ...

 

Click here to see

 

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