EARLY NORFOLK PHOTOGRAPHERS - B
BAILEY, Albert
Watton
KN1900, KN1904, KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
BALDRY, G W
Baldry is listed at 6 London Street, Norwich, 1864, by Cory, who describes him as ‘from London’. But no Baldry is to be found in Pritchard.
BANGER, Edgar H
2a Exchange Street, Norwich
KN1896, TC1901
114 St Benedict's Street, Norwich
KN1900, KN1904, KN1908, JN1911, KN1912, JN1914, KN1916
Listed as Banger & Co in KN1912, KN1916. Cartes and cabinet prints, probably from the 1890s, have ‘2 Exchange Street, Market Place, Norwich’. Cory gives this form of the address for c1894. TC1901 misreports him as 'F H Banger'.
BANGER, Gavin &
White Lion Street, Norwich
KN1888
Back of the Inns, Norwich
WN1890
85 Upper St Giles Street, Norwich
KN1892
BANTOCK, Roger James
7 Castle Street, Thetford
KN1904, KN1908, KN1912
38 King Street, Thetford
KN1916, AN1916
BANYARD, C
Theatre Street, Dereham
KN1883
BARBER Charles
Dereham Road, Norwich
MN1867, KN1875
See note after the entry for Charles J Barber.
BARBER Charles J
St Benedict's Road, Norwich
HN1863, HN1868, HN1872, HN1877
The series of Barber/Barker entries is confusing. Since the two surnames are similar, since St Benedict’s Road is the Dereham Road, since the initials ‘I’ and ‘J’ look much alike, and since no two of these entries ever appear in the same source, some errors in the original directory listings seem possible. The four entries in this A to Z may represent just two photographers – or even one. Charles J Barber, aged 40, is the only one of this group of alleged photographers to have been found in the 1871 census.
BARKER Charles Ives
Dereham Road, Norwich
KN1869
The provision of a full middle name, Ives, adds an air of authenticity. But see note after the entry for Charles J Barber.
BARKER, C J
Dereham Road, Norwich
WN1864
See note after the entry for Charles J Barber.
BARROW, Edward Thomas Ebenezer
Market Street, Wymondham
KN1908
BATCHELDER, Stephen John
Opposite Pitt Street, St Augustine's, Norwich
KN1865
St Augustine’s Street, Norwich
MN1867
Ber Street, Norwich
HN1868, HN1872
Regent Road, Yarmouth
HN1872, KN1875, HN1877, KN1879
73 Regent Road, Yarmouth
GY 1874, SYcirca1878
2 Roman Place, Nelson Road, Yarmouth
KN1875, KN1879
Two identically named members of the Batchelder family practised photography, and, except in Kelly, it is not always clear which is referred to. KN1865 mentions Stephen John Batchelder & Son and MN1867 refers to S J Batchelder & Sons, while Stephen John Batchelder junior is listed in KN1875 and KN1879. Other directories simply have Stephen or S J Batchelder. (Regent Road studios)
BEALES, Anthony
Believed active in the early 1890s. A cabinet print of Clarke & Co, apparently dating from the mid 1890s, is marked ‘Studio Royal, Norwich, late Anthony Beales’.
BEATTIE, John
Known to have set up temporary studios in Regent Road, Yarmouth, in July 1852, and in Diss some time in 1855.
Born in Scotland around 1820, Beattie was a daguerreotypist who took up wet plate photography in the early 1850s. His travels in Eastern England included both Norfolk and Suffolk, but he eventually settled in Bristol in 1858. He is referred to by both Linkman and Heathcote.
BELCHAMBERS, Henry
Chamberlain Buildings, Lynn
CN1856
Described in Craven as a ‘photographic portrait painter’. His 1857 advertisements in the Lynn Advertiser refer to his having been practising in the town for two years and identify the studio as being in Railway Road.
BENNETT, Mrs Charles
This was Sybilla Bennett, the wife of a local builder. Heathcote notes that, in August 1854, Mrs Bennett advertised a portrait studio at 7 London Road, King’s Lynn, and she contributed photographs to an exhibition marking the opening of Lynn's Athenaeum in 1854. She also offered lessons in making wax flowers.
BERRY, William C
Church Street, Wells
KN1883
BERRYMAN, Mrs M
Castle Meadow, Norwich
KN1858
BIDWELL, Frederick
Lynn Road, Swaffham
KN1875
See also Frederick B Bidwell, below.
BIDWELL, Frederick B
London Road, Downham
K1879
See also Frederick Bidwell, above.
BIRD, Sawyer &
42 London Street, Norwich
HN1872
King Street, Yarmouth
HN1872, HN1877
London
HN1872, GY1874, HN1877
Norwich
GY1874
182 King Street, Yarmouth
GY1874, KN1875
32 London Street, Norwich
KN1875, KN1879, KN1883
36a Rathbone Place, London (offices)
KN1875
42 London Street, Norwich
HN1877
14 King Street, Yarmouth
SYcirca1878, KN1979, KN1883
74 Oxford Street, London (offices)
KN1883
John Sawyer had already been running a studio at 42 London Street for some years before 1872, and Heathcote says the partnership was formed in 1871. According to Pritchard, Sawyer & Bird also had London premises at 87 Regent Street West, 1872-3, and were part of the firm of Sawyer, Bird & Foxlee at that address in 1874. Further information about the partnership appears under Sawyer & Bird. (King Street studios)
BLANCHARD, Valentine, senior
According to the 'Lynn Advertiser', he opened a studio at the 'Photographic Rooms of Mr Agger, the builder' in Railway Road, Lynn, on 18th June 1859, and stayed there until late February or early March 1860. For information about his later career, see studio note.
BLANCHARD, Valentine, junior
Nephew of Valentine Blanchard, above. The 1881 census shows him as a photographer at 107 Norfolk Street, King’s Lynn, but no record of this studio has been found in trade directories. He subsequently ran studios in Wisbech and Cambridge. For more information, see the Cambridegeshire Directory.
BLAKELY, S Fitzgerald
Snettisham
KN1896
BLAZEBY, James
He is referred to by Cory at 16 Bethel Street, Norwich, c1867, working with William Blazeby, below.
BLAZEBY, William
Bethel Street, Norwich
MN1867, HN1868, KN1869, HN1872, HN1877
BOND & Newman
Bank Plain, Norwich
KN1888
Bond may possibly be William Bond, below, operating at the same time under his own name at the Denmark Street address. A cabinet print from the mid-to-late 1880s gives the information: 'Bond & Newman, late R Green. Bank Plain and New Catton, Norwich'.
BOND, Frederick
172 Waterloo Road, Norwich
KN1912
BOND, Henry
Withers Street, Holt
WN1883
BOND, William
Cawston, Norwich
KN1875
Church Lane, Norwich
WN1883
New Catton, Norwich
KN1883
Denmark Road, New Catton
KN1888
Granville Terrace, Norwich
WN1890
Magdalen Road, Norwich
WN1890
Bank Plain, Norwich
WN1890, KN1892
Aylsham
WN1890
1 Sprowston Road, Norwich
KN1892, KN1896, KN1900, KN1904
53 London Street, Norwich
KN1896
Magdalen Street, Norwich
KN1896
63 Magdalen Street, Norwich
KN1900, KN1904
72b Magdalen Street, Norwich
TC1901
131a Magdalen Street, Norwich
JN1911, KN1912, JN1914, KN1916
These entries probably all refer to the same practitioner. Denmark Road was later known as Sprowston Road. Cory mentions an additional studio at 4 Churchill Road, Norwich, 1894. Cartes in the possession of Sheila Miller mention studios at both Bank Plain and New Catton, so there was a period - not evident from trade directory entries - when both studios were operating at the same time. (See also Bond & Newman, above.)
Bond seems to have been quick to see the possibilities of a market outside the studio. A cabinet print naming studios at Bank Plain and Magdalen Road, and apparently dating from the late 1880s, announces, ‘Schools, wedding parties and every class of outdoor work attended to’.
BONE, Miss May
Norwich Street/Road, Fakenham
KN1904, KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
Beach Terrace, Hunstanton
KN1908
Red Lion Street, Aylsham ,
KN1908
Pier Gate, Hunstanton
KN1912, KN1916
Station Road, Fakenham
AN1916
Miss Bone’s Hunstanton operation aimed for a share of the holiday trade. The business took promenade photos that were presented in postcard format and bore the address ‘May Bone’s Kiosk, Hunstanton’. Photohistorian Paul Godfrey believes that she was one of the earliest photographers to produce 'walkie' pictures. She also ran studios in Peterborough in the years after the First World War. Though a substantial amount of her work was for the inexpensive and unpretending holiday market, an attractive example of her more thoughtful work can be seen on David Spencer’s website.
BOSANQUET, Richard
141 Blackfriars Road, Yarmouth
TC1901
BOSWELL, William
Magdalen Street, Norwich
HN1863, HN1868
15 & 16 Exchange Street, Norwich
MN1867
Exchange Street, Norwich
HN1868
MN1867 and HN1868 refer to ‘William Boswell & Son’, which suggests that the son entered the business between 1863 and 1867. But this assumption is undermined by a number of surviving ambrotypes. Printed on the back of these is, ‘W Boswell jun., Magdalen Street, Norwich. Portraits in this style, Sixpence’, and several of them are dated 1859 or 1860. Cory gives 1859 as the earliest date for the Magdalen Street Studio. He dates the Exchange Street premises from c1864, and suggests the firm continued in photography until about 1872.
BOUGHTON, Walter
Guildhall Street, Thetford
WN1883, WS1892
Market Place, Thetford
WS1885, KN1888, KN1892
King Street, Thetford
WN1890
For subsequent operations in partnership with his sons, see below.
BOUGHTON, W & Sons
92 Regent Road, Yarmouth
KN1896
King Street, Thetford
KN1896 KN1900, TC1901, KN1904, KN1908, KN1912
Station Road, Thetford
KN1896, KN1908, KN1912
Lowestoft
KN1896
60 London Street, Norwich
KN1900
2 St John's Terrace, Lynn
KN1900, TC1901
London Street, Norwich
TC1901
High Street, Lynn
TL1901
102 High Street, Lynn
KN1904, KN1908
This was a family-owned chain of studios, building on the success of William Boughton’s work in Thetford during the 1880s. There is only one mention of a Lowestoft studio in Norfolk sources, but the Boughtons ran a number of studios in Suffolk (for which, see the Suffolk directory). They also opened a studio in Peterborough (then in Northamptonshire) in the late 1890s.
BOVILL, William John
Northwold
KN1896, KN1900, KN1904, KN1908
BRADDOCK, George
Martham
KN1865, KN1869, KN1875, KN1879, WN1883
White Street, Martham
HN1868, HN1872, HN1877
HN1863 records a George Braddock, watchmaker, at Martham. The photographer is also described as a watch and clock maker in HN1868, HN1872, and HN1877.
BRAND, C & Co
Opaline Works, 75 & 77 Dereham Road, Norwich
KN1892
Station Road, North Walsham
KN1892
Yoxford House, St Stephen's Road, Norwich
MN1867, HN1868, KN1869, HN1872, KN1875, HN1877, KN1879, HAM 1879, WN1883, EN1883
Cory records 31/33 St Stephen's Road as the number of Yoxford House.
BROWN
A cabinet print, in the possession of Sheila Miller and dating probably from the 1890s, is marked: 'Brown, Photographic Artist, 10 Cloisters Street, Norwich'.
BROWN, Mrs C
East Gates Studio, 91 Norfolk Street, opposite Railway Road, Lynn
TAL1895
BROWNE, George
Prince of Wales Road, Norwich
WN1890
A cabinet print from the second half of the1880s gives the studio address as Foundry Road, Norwich, and adds: 'George W Newman, manager'.
BRUNTON, William George
High Street, Dereham
HN1863, HN1872, KN1875, HN1877, KN1879, WN1883, KN1883
Brunton’s business was described as ‘photographer and fancy repository’ in HN1863 and HN1872. In HN1877 he appeared as ‘jeweller, Berlin (wool) merchant, fancy repository & photographer’.
BULLOCK, Edward
4 London Road, Lynn
HN1872, HN1877
The common studio address arouses suspicions that Edward Bullock and Edwin Bullock (below) are the same person. Since the 1871 census shows Edwin as a King’s Lynn photographer, and since there is no sign of an Edward, it appears that Harrod is in error over the forename.
BULLOCK, Edwin
St James' Street, Lynn
HN1868, KN1869
4 London Road, Lynn
KN1875
The brother of H B Bullock, below, he opened his first studio on 5th June 1865. The move to the London Road studio was made at the beginning of 1872 (Source: 'Lynn Advertiser' ). He was bought out by Wallis and Manders (q.v.) in July 1878, but was in buisness again, in Luton, by 1871. (See also Edward Bullock, above.)
BULLOCK, H B
An itinerant photographer noted by Heathcote as setting up a studio in September and October 1852 at 110 High Street, Lynn. He produced portraits on paper by a method he described as ‘collodio-iodide of silver’.
BULLOCK, Thomas Brame
Son of Edwin Bullock, above. Born in King's Lynn in 1871/2, he later ran studios in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, but he may never have practised in his native county.
BURGESS, John Middleton
5 Lower Goat Lane, Norwich
KN1865
Burgess was the inventor of the Eberneum or Ivorytype process, one of a number of methods devised for producing positive images on a manufactured, ivory-like material. At the time of KN1865, Burgess’ partner-to-be, Thomas Henry Grimwood, was running a tailoring business at the same address.
BURGESS, Grimwood &
Queen Street, Norwich
MN1867, HN1868, KN1869, HN1872
BURGESS & Jennings
Queen Street, Norwich
KN1875
By the time of HN1877, Jennings was running the business alone.
75 Dereham Road, Norwich
KN1896
BURRELL, H R
Market Place, Fakenham
KN1858