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F C Marsh served in the Merchant Navy during WW1. In 1919 he became a printer on cruise ships before joining His Majesty's Stationery Office.
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10 May 1924-28 Jun 1999
Edward James Back was born on 10 May 1924 and died on 28 June 1999. He studied electrical engineering at Faraday House from 1941-1944, and was awarded an Honours diploma with silver and gold medals (the only student to do so). From 1944-1945 he was a temporary experimental officer at the Admiralty Research Laboratory at Teddington. In 1949 he gained an external University of London BSc (Engineering) at Regent Street Polytechnic, and worked from 1949-1956 as Senior Assistant to S. Austen Stigant in the Education Department of Johnson and Phillips at Charlton. In 1953 he became a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE). He worked as a Personnel and Training Officer at BP from 1956-58 and then at Henry Wiggin in Hereford.
From 1963-1965 Back was at the London College of Divinity in Northwood, gaining the ALCD, after which he was curate of Emmanuel Church, Northwood, Middlesex, from 1965-1969. He then returned to electrical engineering, and lectured in that subject at Hendon College of Technology (a predecessor body of the University of Middlesex), where he was also honorary chaplin, for 19 years.
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1918-2000
W K A Barnes attended the Polytechnic Secondary School from July 1934. He enrolled in the School of Architecture at the Poly in 1938, but his studies were interrupted by WW2 and he left to join the RAF in July 1940. He recommenced his studies in April 1946 and gained the Polytechnic Certificate and Diploma in Architecture, graduating in December 1948. Barnes worked at architect firm Saxon, Snell and Philips before moving to the NW Thames Regional Health Authority where he was involved on several hospital projects including Brompton Hospital and Whittington Hospital.
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1897-1976
Jacobine Jones studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic under Harold Brownsward in the 1920s-1930s
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1898-1979
William Thomas Owen was born in New Zealand in 1898 and moved with his family to England in 1906 and began photography in 1908 when his father, Charles, a keen amateur, tired of the hobby. After service in the British Navy during WWI, Owen went to the Polytechnic Art School 1919-21 studying graphic art illustration and later to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
In 1924 Owen began exhibiting in the Amateur Photographer competitions and the London and Royal Salons. He became a member of The Amateur Postal Camera Club, experimented with processes and did some professional work.
In 1927, Owen left England due to the Depression and settled in Melbourne working for Spencer Shier for a year before joining a firm - Colour Photographs - later Queen City Printers - for whom he developed a method of applying the Jos-Pe colour process to lithography. The firm became P. C. Grosser Lithographic Printers, for whom Owen worked until retirement in 1969.
As an amateur Owen found the light very different in Australia and, in particular, lacked the atmosphere he was used to. His Australian pictures made here followed the style of J. B. Eaton (q.v.) but did not retain the finish of his English subjects.
Owen was an active member of the Melbourne Camera Circle and Melbourne Camera Club and a judge for The Victorian Salon after Dr. Julian Smith's death in 1948. Owen worked in carbon, carbro and lantern slides. The National Gallery of Victoria holds a good collection of Owen's work.
Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, 1927