Cockney Life at the Elephant and Castle, London, January 8, 1949Gelatin Silver print by Bert Hardy (1913 1990), titled Cockney Life at the Elephant and Castle, London, January 8, 1949 Cockney Life at the Elephant and Castle, London. There are thousands of similar basement rooms where tens of thousands of people live yet each one is different. Picture Post Magazine, January 8, 1949. There is a spot to the border on the left of the image. Provenance: Purchased from The Photographers Gallery, London, in 1991 on the