Image sources and copyrights
I have made diligent efforts to trace all copyright holders. Quotation of permission to reproduce material does not waive a right to reproduce material under fair comment or other copyright exemptions.
St Peter's Square, 1961
Still from Technological Education in Britain, a film produced by UMIST and probably copyright by the University of Manchester. A copy of the film is held by the North West Film Archive and it can be viewed online at BFI.
Reflections of modernity
Taken by an unknown photographer in 1951 /2 and at the time copyright by Ferranti Ltd.
This photograph was used in Ferranti’s 1952 brochure for the Ferranti Mark I. There are copies of this in both the Museum of Science and Industry, and the University of Manchester. The University has in the past published this photograph with a claim that it owns the copyright.
Abacus Screen, by Edward Mills, Festival of Britain, London, 1951
Copyright holder unknown; also found on Flickr.
ICI publicity image from the 1951 Festival of Britain brochure
Artist and copyright holder unknown.
War Memorial, by James Chettle, 1941
This painting is held by Manchester Art Gallery. It is out of copyright.
ArtUK assert that Manchester Art Gallery has licensed this image of it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Manchester Art Gallery believe that, because in the past they commissioned a faithful photograph of this work, some additional copyright arises in the resulting image. This view has not been upheld in UK courts in the twenty-first century, and modern textbooks on intellectual property law suggests it would not be. In any case Manchester Art Gallery have said they do not assert any copyright over the image they have uploaded to ArtUK, and that they would only assert copyright over a higher-resolution image which they have not uploaded there. I’m grateful to Manchester Art Gallery staff for patiently explaining their position to me.
Patrick Blackett by Emmanuel Levy
Held in the National Portrait Gallery. (c) The estate of Emmanuel Levy, probably, although the circumstances of the commission are not known. Neither I, the Manchester Art Gallery, The Jewish Museum, Manchester, or National Portrait Gallery know who control the Levy estate.
Douglas Hartree's differential analyser, around 1945
Douglas Hartree and Phyllis Nicolson are on the right.
The British Council assert copyright over this image and have granted permission to use it. Multiple versions of it can be found online, including this one. No physical copy is known.
Supposed marine life forms drawn by Ernst Haeckel, about 1884
Plate 1 of Haeckel, 1904, Art forms of Nature. The Circogonia icosohedra is redrawn from the type report in Haeckel’s 1887 Challenger survey.
The original is out of copyright, and scans are widely available, for example here.
Special Number on Homosexuality
The cover of The British Journal of Delinquency, Volume 9, Number 1, 1955. The content of the journal is (c) Oxford University Press.
Population centres around Manchester
Unknown artist, 1947.
From the South Lancashire and North Cheshire Adrisory Planning Committee’s Advisory Plan.
How did this happen
From Alan Turing’s notes 1953/1954. Copyright King’s College Cambridge.
St Peter's Square
A copy of this postcard appears in Erik Krieger’s Manchester: The Postcard Collection. The photographer and copyright holder are both unknown. The image dates from after 1958 as the uncropped version shows the Peter House office block which was built in that year.
Map of Industrial Towns around Manchester
From the Manchester Chamber of Commerce Handbook, 1931-1932.
The upper left corner says ‘Norah Simcock fecit 1931’ so it is possible that this image is still in copyright, although the ownership is not definite. The companion street map from the same book is known to have been drawn in at least two versions, one of which is credited to a different artist.
Cities of Manchester and Salford
From the Manchester Chamber of Commerce Handbook, 1931-1932.
No artist details are given. If this is an anonymous work then it is out of copyright. While there are considerable stylistic similarities to the regional map in the same volume which carries a credit to Norah Simcock, it is also more closely related to another street map (reprinted in the wonderful recent Manchester: Mapping The City by Wyke, Robson & Dodge) published in the Manchester Guardian in 1926, bearing the initials WM.
Banana Split
Joan Marks, 1952, Cafe & Milk Bar Catering, London: Heywood & Co. This image is by an unknown artist, and the copyright holder is unknown. I have tried and failed to trace who holds any surviving copyright owned by Heywood & Co.
Festival of Britain staff outside Lower Campsfield Market
The National Archives, WORK 25/207.
I believe this anonymous photograph commissioned for the Festival of Britain was once Crown Copyright and is now out of copyright.
The Skill of the British People
Copyright in the sculpture itself is held by the estate of de Henriquez whom I have been unable to contact.
Photograph from the National Archives WORK 25/210/D1/FOB4034; copyright as WORK 25/207.
Manchester United Festival of Britain match against Red Star Yugoslavia
Copyright holder unknown.