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Richard Thomas & Baldwins Limited Biography Biography
Richard Thomas & Baldwins Limited (RTB) was a major iron, steel and tinplate producer, primarily based in Wales and formed in 1948 by the merger of Richard Thomas & Co Ltd with Baldwins Ltd. It was absorbed into British Steel Corporation in 1967. As of 2024, the business now forms part of Tata Steel Europe.
Chillingworth, John Biography Biography
John Chillingworth was born in London on 18th January 1928 and served as an Army photographer during the Second World War. He worked for 'Picture Post’ from 1949-1956, producing over 400 photo-essays for the magazine. The Getty Images' Hulton Archive holds four hundred picture essays from his days with Picture Post, which used narrative photography to inform, entertain and influence the conscience of its readers. After 1956, Chillingworth concentrated on journalism and continued to take photographs on a freelance basis. He ran his own management consultancy from the 1970s. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and passed away on 6th April 2025, aged 97 years.

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Two copies of the quarterly magazine of Richard, Thomas & Baldwins Limited containing picture stories ‘Wires Around the World’ by Sidney R Campion (photographs by Peter Hewitt), ‘The Severn Bridge’ by Rolt Hammond (photographs by Peter Hewitt and the National Physical Laboratory), ‘Work For the Disabled’ by Rolt Hammond (photographs by Peter Hewitt), ‘The Pembrokeshire Coast’ by R M Lockley (Crown Copyright), ‘This is RTB’, ‘The Film In Industry’ by Norman MacQueen (photographs by Peter Hewitt), ‘Record Sleeves’ by Christopher Bradshaw (images provided by respective record companies), ‘Rulers of the Town’ by Gwyn Thomas, ‘Holiday in the Snow’ by Denzil Batchelor (images by the Swiss National Tourist Board) and ‘Men at Work: The Limestone Quarry’ (photographs by John Chillingworth)
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English
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National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
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