In due course, Godfrey became the Honorary Secretary of the Tunbridge Wells Amateur Photographic Association, later Honorary Vice-President and Honorary Curator of the Tunbridge Wells Photographic Record Section. Photography was the chosen hobby of the well-off local gentry.  He knew many of the distinguished members, such as Henry Peach Robinson, Thomas Sims, Francis Smart, Joseph Chamberlain, who assisted Francis Smart in his darkroom, and Ernest Ashton.  He also knew Sir David Salomons, a renowned early proponent of domestic electric lighting and the motor car, whose wife was Patroness of the Association in the 1920s. It held regular meetings at the various grand houses of the members in Tunbridge Wells, such as Bredbury, which belonged to Francis Smart. After dinner they would have lectures with shows of lantern slides. 

Godfrey and his brother were very advanced in their ideas and believed in 'natural ' cures rather than chemicals. They were also very prescient in their dislike of modern inventions, such as washing-up liquid, that they said would kill all the fishes in the rivers. Although they had a bathroom in the house they believed hot baths were bad for you and washed every day with a sponge and cold water. In short, they were classic, well-educated Victorian eccentrics.