Edwin Dale

Edwin Dale

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Edwin Dale

Edwin Dale was an accomplished amateur photographer who took hundreds of pictures in Jersey in the early years of the 20th century

Edwin Dale ran a shoe shop

Edwin Dale was born on 3 January 1882 and has left behind a fascinating selection of island views taken between 1910 and 1920; some of them possibly earlier. There is a collection in the Photographic Archive of La Société Jersiaise, and images are also held by private collectors.

He entered the Jersey Eistedfodd photographic competition for the first time in 1913 he won four first prizes and two second prizes. He made his living running his father’s boot, shoe and leather shop at 63 New Street but he had a passion for photography, and among his favourite subjects were harbour scenes and steamships, churches, houses, country lanes and coastal views, sport and the railway. He also took portraits and photographs of islanders at work.

He had a motorcycle which he used to travel around the island to take his photographs.

He covered such events as the Royal Visit of 1911, and could be described as an amateur 'photojournalist'. He was active a few years before Jersey's acknowledged first professional photojournalist, Percival Dunham.

At least 40 of his images were published as a series of postcards around 1914. Many of his photographs are numbered among the most iconic images of the island in the second decade of the 20th century, and others not on this page will be found in various galleries throughout this website.

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  A self portrait of Edwin Dale with his motor cycle
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  St Helier Harbour
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  Collecting vraic
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  Stopford Road
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  Stopford Road
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  Militia at Grouville Common
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  Militia at Grouville Common
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  Rifle practice at Grouville Common
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  Militia officers and Ncos at a Grouville camp
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  Militia artillery
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  Passengers ready to disembark in St Helier Harbour
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  A Royal Square parade
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  Edwin Dale's father John's shop at 13 Union Street
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  Militia artillery on the sand dunes
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  Trinity Church
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  Vraic cart
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  Unloading a vessel at the Harbour
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  A Battle of Jersey commemorative plaque in the Royal Square
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  A cycle race at the FB Fields
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  A penny farthing bicycle
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  Coiffe Jersiaise, or Jersey bonnet
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  A woman on a swing
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  Vallee des Vaux
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  Lady in a flower garden
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  A Jersey country lane
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  A Jersey cow
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  Don Monument in the Parade
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  Victoria Avenue
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  Don Monument
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  An informal portrait of a lady
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  Edwin Dale, his wife and daughter in Southampton
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  A 1914 portrait
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  La Corbiere
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  Woman and baby at La Corbiere (probably the Bivouac Tearoom)
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  New North Quay slipway
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  Concours Musicale competitors arrive
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  Loading coal
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  English Harbour
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  Great Union Road Methodist Chapel
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  York Street arch for Edward VII's coronation
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  Beaumont
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  Quarrying stone for roadmaking
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  The Esplanade
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  King George V and Queen Mary pass through Bath Street in 1911
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Two ladies with a pram, possibly in what became Waterworks Valley