ContributorCommunity HistoryDescriptionGerry Lambert crossing the Seventh Avenue, Inglewood c1950. Located on the border of the suburbs Inglewood and Maylands.
Gerry was the son of Theodore Lambert, who was brother of Reginald Lambert, a well know Western Australian photographer.CollectionHistory and Heritage Awards collectionCreator individualPhotographer unknownDate createdc1950Materialsdigital imageHistorical details
This photograph was submitted to the History and Heritage awards 2020 with the following text:
This cool and relaxed guy is my Dad, Gerry Lambert.
I don't really remember him being cool or even that relaxed. But this is the late 1940s, or perhaps early 1950s, well before I was born, more than a decade before he married my mother.
I love his style with the rolled-up sleeves and snazzy Forties relaxed slacks with sandals. This was seemingly before jeans became fashionable.
Gerry lived at 125 Seventh Avenue, Inglewood with his sister, Elsa, and widowed mother, Gladys. That house is across the other side of Carrington Street from where this photo was taken.
In the picture, he is crossing Seventh Avenue near the Inglewood - Maylands border. In the background from left to right you can see 126 Seventh Avenue, Inglewood and, 143 Eighth avenue, Inglewood, houses which are both still in place today. 144 Eighth Avenue seems to have been a shop based on the Bushells advertising. There is little sign of the shop today.
It is noted that no cars or stop signs are to be seen in the photo and this is probably a reflection of how few cars there were at the time of the photo being taken.
Gerry Lambert crossing Seventh Avenue near the Inglewood and Maylands border. City of Stirling Art and History Collection, accessed 06/12/2025, https://collections.stirling.wa.gov.au/nodes/view/6118
