EARLY CAMBRIDGESHIRE PHOTOGRAPHERS - S
SANDERSON, Frederick Herbert
48 Bridge Street, Cambridge
SC1895
SANDERSON, Goodrich &
Post Office Terrace, Cambridge
KC1904, KC1912, KC1912
SANDY, John
166 East Road, Cambridge
KC1912
SARONY, Oliver F X
Linkman identifies Sarony (a Canadian, born 1820 and died 1879) as an itinerant daguerreotypist who set up in Cambridge for 13 months in 1854/5. He later prospered with a permanent studio in Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Heathcote lists the following studios: Parker’s Piece, Cambridge, from November 1854 to December 1855; Holbeach, Lincs, in August 54; opposite the Session House, Wisbech, July to November 1854. Sarony added the collodion process to his repertoire in 1855. He was a great traveller in England and overseas, often working in partnership with John Baum(e). More information about his career can be found in 'Photographers in mid-nineteenth century Scarborough' (Anne & Paul Bayliss: Bayliss, 1998).
SAUNDERS, Hills &
15 King's Parade, Cambridge
KC1869, SC1887, KC1888, HC1873, KC1875, SC1878, KC1879, SC1881, KC1883, SC1884, KC1892
King's Parade, Cambridge
SC1874, SC1891
2 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge
SC1884
19 King's Parade, Cambridge
SC1907, KC1908, CAD1909/10, SC1910, SC1911, SC1912, KC1912, SC1913, SC1914, SC1915, KC1916, SC1916/17, SC1919/20
Also at Oxford, Eton, Harrow & London, according to KC1869, HC1873, KC1875. In HC1873 the address is expanded to ‘The Oxford Photographic Gallery, 15 King's Parade, Cambridge’. In KC1908 the firm appears as ‘Hill & Saunders’.
See Hills for the early history of the partnership, which was dissolved in 1889 (though the original name continued in use for studios run by representatives of both families.) In March 1893 (we learn from Dimond & Taylor) the Eton studio, run by Frederick & Ernest Saunders but still trading under the traditional name, was granted its second Royal Warrant as Photographers to the Queen at Eton.
SCOTT & Wilkinson
47 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge
KC1888, SC1891, KC1892, SC1895, KC1896, SC1898, KC1900, SC1901, TC1901, SC1904, KC1904, SC1907, KC1908, CAD1909/10, SC1910, SC1911, KC1912, SC1912, SC1913, SC1914, SC1915, KC1916, AC1916, SC1916/17, SC1919/20
Reeve notes that photographers from the firm were present to record the Prince of Wales receiving an honorary degree in 1892 and the town's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897.
SEATON, William
East Station Street, Chatteris
KC1912, KC1916
SETTERLOWE, John
An itinerant recorded by Heathcote as operating at Mr Hemment’s, Market Place, Whittlesey, June 1855.
SHAW, A C
2 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge
KC1900
SHAW, Clements Athol
2 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge
SC1898
SHELDON, G
7 Melbourne Place, Cambridge
KC1864
SHEPHERD, A W
Sand Street, Soham
KC1916
See also Sheppard.
SHEPPARD, Alfred John
Sand Street, Soham
AC1916
See also Shepherd.
SIMPSON Brothers
Cambridge
SC1878
SIMPSON, John Gray
Priory Street, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge
SC1884, SC1891
4 Priory Street, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge
SC1887
Priory Street, Chesterton, Cambridge
KC1888, KC1892
13 Priory Street, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge
SC1895. SC1898, SC1901, SC1904, SC1907, CAD1909/10, SC1910, SC1911
15 Priory Street, Chesterton, Cambridge
KC1896, KC1900, KC1904
15 Priory Street, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge
SC1912, SC1913, SC1914, SC1915, SC1916/17, SC1919/20
When dating photographs, it would seem inadvisable to rely too heavily on the slightly varying forms of address.
SKEELS, Ernest
East Park Street, Chatteris
KC1904, KC1908, KC1912
Sutton, Ely
KC1908, KC1912
SMEE & Co
98 Mill Road, Cambridge
KC1896
SMITH, A L
Station Road, March
TC1901
SMITH, Alfred
Shepreth
KC1912, KC1916
SMITH, Frederick John
Margett Street, Cottenham
KC1904, KC1908, KC1912, KC1916
SMITH, J
26 Lower Park Street, Cambridge
SC1881
SMITH, Leonard William
96 Lynn Road, Wisbech
KC1908, AC1916
According to Fosbrook-Ream, Smith sold the business to Lilian Ream after the First World War but continued working there as her employee until the late 1920s, when she gave up that studio (Studio note: 96 Lynn Road). Smith was also the goalkeeper for Wisbech Town FC.
SMITH, Samuel
According to Golding and Weston, Samuel Smith (1802-1892) settled in Wisbech in 1847 and took up photography in 1852, going on to make hundreds of calotypes of the area. An amateur rather than a studio professional, he enjoyed some repute as an architectural photographer, still using the calotype process as late as 1864. A selection of his work is held by the National Media Museum at Bradford.
SPENCELY, David Robert
Main Street, Littleport
KC1892, KC1896, KC1900, KC1904, KC1908, KC1912
Granby Street, Littleport
KC1896
SQUIRES, W
Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge
MAC1866
29 Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge
MAC1867
STALLAN, William James
East View, London Road, Sawston
KC1904
STARR, Ralph
108 Fitzroy Street, Cambridge
SC1891, KC1892, SC1895, KC1896, SC1898, KC1900, TC1901, SC1901
STARR & Rignall
108 Fitzroy Street, Cambridge
KC1904, SC1904, SC1907, KC1908, CAD1909/10, SC1910, SC1911, SC1912, KC1912, SC1913, SC1914, SC1915, KC1916, AC1916, SC1916/17, SC1919/20
High Street, Ely
KC1904, KC1908, KC1912, KC1916, AC1916
85 Regent Street, Cambridge
CAD1909/10
See also E S Ball.
STEARN, Messrs
72 Bridge Street, Cambridge
SC1887, TC1901, AC1916
These entries appear to refer to the firm of Thomas Stearn, below.
STEARN & Son(s)
72 Bridge Street, Cambridge
SC1895, SC1898, SC1901, SC1904, SC1907, KC1908, CAD1909/10, SC1910, SC1911, KC1912, SC1912, SC1913, SC1915, SC1916/17, SC1919/20
Brunswick Terrace, Cambridge
KC1908, KC1912, SC1916/17, SC1919/20
Listed as ‘& Son’ 1895-1901, and ‘& Sons’ 1908-1919/20. All entries appear to refer to the firm of Thomas Stearn, below.
STEARN, Thomas
72 Bridge Street, Cambridge
KC1869, HC1873, SC1874, SC1878, KC1879, SC1881, KC1883, SC1884, SC1891, KC1892, KC1896, KC1900, KC1904
SC1874 lists ‘Thomas Stearn junior’; SC1891 lists ‘Thomas Stearne & Son’; KC1892-1904 lists ‘Thomas Stearn & Sons’. There also seems to have been an earlier Thomas Stearne who went unrecorded by trade directories. According to Reeve, all Bridge Street entries refer to Thomas Stearn junior, while Thomas senior had, at some stage, premises at King's Head Yard, off Magdalen Street, Cambridge. See also Sterne.
STEELE, Edward
Steele is referred to by Hannavy as active in Wisbech in the 1860s, but he has not found in trade directories. Could confusion with Enoch Steele, below, be possible?
STEELE, Enoch
8 High Street, Wisbech
KC1869, KC1875
High Street, Wisbech
HC1873
STERNE, Thomas
72 Bridge Street, Cambridge
KC1875
This must be Thomas Stearn, above.
SUCKLING, Arthur H
Horne Lane, Linton
KC1904
Oak Cottage, Horne Lane, Linton
KC1908, KC1912
Hope Cottage, Horne Lane, Linton
KC1916
SWAINE, George
Little South Street, Wisbech
KC1864, KC1869
Norfolk Street East, Wisbech
HC1873
20 Norfolk Street East, Wisbech
KC1875, KC1879, KC1883, KC1888, KC1892, KC1896
Described as painter, glazier & photographer in HC1873.