Alfred Grey Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains black and white photographs and negatives of photographs taken by Alfred Grey at Joe’s bar novelty portrait studio and a small amount of related ephemera.
Dates
- Creation: c1960 - 1969
Creator
- Grey, Alfred, 1904 - 1999 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Negatives not available for public view due to condition. Other items are available to view by appointment in the NFCA reading room
Conditions Governing Use
Copies may be supplied by the National Fairground and Circus Archive for study or personal use only subject to condition of the material
Biographical / Historical
Alfred ‘Joe’ Grey (1904-1999) built a comic yet realistic photographic stage set featuring a make-believe bar in an old fashioned pub in his unique open-fronted shop on Strand Street, Douglas, Isle of Man. He called it Joe’s Bar and ran it with his wife Hetty and photographer son Howard between 1950 and 1971. The novelty seaside photographic set only opened during the summer months, when countless groups of holiday-makers had their photographs taken while wearing novelty hats, pretending to drink out of oversized bottles of Whisky or Guinness and appearing totally drunk.
Extent
10 Box(es) (742 rolls of 35mm photographic negatives, 269 photographs and 1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Catalogued according to type
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Arantza Barrutia
- Date
- 12 November 2015
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
0114 222 7231
lib-special@sheffield.ac.uk