All Together

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What is probably the largest collection of images from a High-Street photographer in the UK, digitized - But , as Damian Zane reports, few details are known about the functions in the Ron Gibson than 150,000 photos from the London borough of Hackney.

Each image is captivating.

The proud smile, or a nervous look, or a heavy rigid reference to an Untold Story .

The Names >are gone, But these frozen moments have on an individual's history and one of The Most diverse places in the UK.

The Man behind The camera was a random historian.

For three decades from the early 1950s, from its base in a shop on one of Hackney's main roads, Ron Gibson photographed hundreds of weddings, work, parties, Bar mitzvahs, trips and baptisms. Also people came to him for individual and family portraits, the recording of important moments in your life.

Gibson was a meticulous record-keeper and the archive of negatives, remained intact in a closet in the studio, even after he is his business to sold.

But in the main, the log-books you link lost the pictures of the people that were presented.

Hackney archives, which holds The Collection , has been the exchange of images in The Hope that people will recognize themselves or their friends and Family Members who will come to the front.

Some of them were tracked down.

Ray PottsRay Potts remembers The Blue window-pane check suit, and brown brothel-creeper shoes, which he wore to a party-night in Barrie ' s dance hall in 1952.

"If you don't have a smart suit and a clean shirt, you've never a girl," he says. "You would never look you. "

He would pay for two suits for him for a year, apart from money in the tailoring, the each week to.

capturing the atmosphere in Barrie is a clothes shop on one of Hackney's main shopping streets, was one of the first commercial order for Gibson, who was 24 at the time.

dance halls dominated The Social scene in the UK from The 1930S , reached its Zenith in the 1950s, and Gibson's images, the fun, fashion and romance, to make it easy to imagine what a night it could have been so.

Ray, 17 when the pictures were taken, would in The Club the week go up to five times, and he learned to Foxtrot, waltz and Jive - dancing craze, swept the country in the early 1950s.

Knowledge that was moved is also an important ingredient for a potential romance.

"music has always been young people brought together," Ray says, "and the better a dancer you were, involved the more chance you had with a girl. "

back to Barrie Later in the decade, after completing his national service, went with him to Korea, and Egypt, Ray s, where he met Jean Perry. They were Married , and 60 years, they are still together.

Huntley Thompson looking good was also important for the Huntley Thompson, from Jamaica, as a child with his parents in Hackney, in the early 1960s.

was Almost 20 years after Gibson, snapped the young night owls to Barrie, well-Huntley dressed went to The Photographer 's studio on the Lower Clapton Road.

He was a part of a circle of friends that had their photos on a regular basis. He says Gibson photographed him at least 20 times.

"Because it was the only way to get your photos made, we all went to Gibson," Huntley says.

"All my friends were very in fashion. We want to show by selecting it with the latest clothes.

"It was a fashion statement. You need a good look at the photo. "

Everyone in Hackney would have attributed to a photo of Gibson at some point, Huntley.

As a child in the 1970s, the Gibson-daughter, Lisa-Jayne Baker, helped her father out on Saturdays and I can wait at the queue of people to have their photos taken.

"It was great fun," she says.

your father was very popular among people from the Caribbean Community that would bring food as gifts during the Christmas season, and throw impromptu parties in the studio.

Lisa Jayne says, he played a major role in the conservation of the significant moments in your life.

"He had done, your wedding photos, photos of your children, baptisms, children, and weddings," she says.

"thought My father, of himself as a steward for other people, the memories. The photographs that do not belong to him. He was Just Looking for the negative. "

in the municipality.

"As you go through the list, you can see how Hackney missed," says Lisa Peatfield, was in charge of the Gibson-project in the Hackney Archives.

"New communities move in Hackney after the Second World War .

"If everyone knows The Photos in the' 50s almost complete. There is a strong Jewish community, which you can see in The Photos of the weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.

"But as you move up in the late 60s and 70s, the people in The Photos are mainly in Africa, The Caribbean or in Asia.

"So, as populations move in and out of Hackney, you move in and out of the photographs. "

Kehkashan NawabFor most of the Gibson issues, the photo was a fleeting moment, at best half-remembered, But for Kehkashan it Nawab was a crucial point in your life.

can recall in detail The Day in the year 1978, at just 15, as she walked along with two of her mother in the best outfits to RA Gibson

A picture was taken and sent to India to help her find a suitable husband.

her father, an Indian Muslim who immigrated in 1956 to study, she wanted to marry someone from their community.

she was born in London and grew up in Hackney, But she says it was a lack of potential grooms in the area.

In her mother's high heels and gold jewellery, designed to look Mature more, has been photographed in two outfits.

"I had the dress looked like a lady, I wore my mum's saris, as I had only the clothes of children," she laughs as she looks at the print 40 Years later.

they settled on the image of her in gold and pink sari, as she was a squint in The Other . The Portrait was then triggered.

A Number of the applicants has come forward. "I'm not lying, they all said, 'Yes', people thought I was nice," she laughs again.

Kehkashan of some of the games approved, But The Plan changed when an Indian tenant of her father in a property he was asked if he knew anyone who he could marry.

religiously, Kehkashan father saw this as a sign from God, and it was agreed that he should marry his daughter.

Gibson's photo was then sent to the potential fiancé to his parents in India, who approved of The Wedding .

at 16, she was Married , and at 17 she had a baby. But this is not a story of lifelong love. She says her husband was ready to be a father, and to the left this time, and moved to the United States.

Adele Lewis photo-graphing weddings is the mainstay of the Gibson ' s business. The Hackney Archives to estimates, 40% of the images in The Collection of wedding photos.

Adele Lewis was 19 when, in 1962, her brother Married at the Brent house road synagogue.

It was one of the larger synagogues, the community at the time, a sign of the size of Hackney's Jewish community.

"It was a wonderful day," she says, "it was all wonderful. "

The Family of The Bride lived opposite the synagogue.

"It was the usual thing, then, that all The Women went to The Bride 's house," Adele says. "The parents of The Bride used to be a table with food, so people could come by and something to drink and eat and see The Bride . "

Gibson's wedding pictures followed A Formula , and there are a lot of of The Bride was always getting ready for The Wedding . The images offer a glimpse into the interior of the apartments of people who are not often in the magazines of the era.

The Day of The Wedding was also a chance to have the taste of luxury living.

"although you [The Bride ] lived opposite our house, and she insisted on a car. She got in one side and on The Other side," Adele says.

Kate vigilante Kate Alert remembers her parents telling her, on a Saturday afternoon in 1977, to dress up for a trip. You thought you were attending A Family party, But you made the short bus trip to the Gibson studio.

"they had the background and the small and beautiful surroundings and setting in photo-shop," she says. "It was like being in your living room. "

In the hot summer of 1976, at the age of 15 years, Kate had come to Hackney from The Caribbean island of Dominica to the rest of your family.

are migrated to your parents, who in the 1960s, in search of better opportunities and had three more daughters in the UK.

The prints from the photo session with Kate on The Right -hand side, which were sent to The Family in Dominica.

"It was nice to send them home, to say that we will do really well in the UK and that The Family is All Together ," Kate.

Related photos Gibson studio work in the 1970s, to be dominated. The formal family or promotional portrait a window into how ran if members of the things.

"would have the people at home, Oh put it on a table where there were a lot of photos and they would say, 'look you, you look so good you look so good," says Kate.

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