EARLY NORFOLK PHOTOGRAPHERS – N-R
NEAVE, William John
Neatishead, Norwich
KN1908, KN1912
NEVE, C J
Neve ran a Photographic Institute at St Stephen's Gates, Norwich. He is known from an ambrotype that appears to date from the late 1850s.
NEWMAN, George
45 Dereham Road, Norwich
KN1888
Foundry Bridge, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich
KN1892
Cory notes a studio at 1 Queen Street, Norwich, 1889. He may well be the same as George W Newman, below.
NEWMAN, George W
Manager at the Foundry Road, Norwich, studio of George Browne (q.v.) at some time in the 1880s. Quite possibly the same as George newman, above.
NICHOLSON, Samuel
Market Place, Fakenham
HN1868, KN1869, HN1872, KN1875
Nicholson is recorded as chemist, druggist and insurance agent at the same address in HN1863. He is described as chemist as well as photographer in HN1868 and HN1872. In HN1877 he is described as dispensing and agricultural chemist, tea dealer, oil merchant and dealer in photographic chemicals and apparatus – but no longer as a studio photographer.
NORWICH Photographic Co
Queen Street, Norwich
WN1883, KN1883, EN1883
Cory believes the company lasted from about 1881 until around 1886.
NURSE, William
Burnham Market
HN1863, HN1872, KN1875, HN1877, KN1879, WN1883, KN1883, KN1888
He is described as baker & photographer, HN1863, HN1872.
OGLEBY, Samuel
St Stephen's Gates, Norwich
CN1856
Described as ‘photographic portrait painter’. Heathcote doesn’t record this studio, but it seems likely to be the same as Oglesby below.
OGLESBY, Samuel
An Eastern counties itinerant who, according to Heathcote, set up a Norwich studio in St Stephen’s Road, near the hospital in 1854. He may also have practised in the North of England before settling in Llandudno in the 1860s. See also Ogleby, above.
O'HANLON, Mrs Rachael
108 Norfolk Street, Lynn
KN1912
ORD, W
Castle Meadow & Westlegate, Norwich
KN1858
ORIENT Art Co (Bert Armond Taylor, propr.)
Bridge Chambers, Southtown Road, Yarmouth
KN1904
ORIENTAL Photo Co/ Studio
157 King Street, Yarmouth
KN1908, KN1912, AN1916
Listed as Oriental Photo Co in KN1908/KN1912 and as Oriental Studio in AN1916. (King Street studios)
PARISH, John
45 Southtown Road, Yarmouth
WN1890, KN1892
PARISIAN Art Photographic Co
31 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich
KN1896
A cabinet print from the 1890s gives the address as 74 King Street, Norwich. Cory records this as a short-lived studio, occupied after the one in Prince of Wales Road.
PEARSE, George S
Victoria Road, Diss
KN1908, KN1912
PECK, E
High Street, Dereham
TC1901
PLOWRIGHT, Walter C
Market Place, Swaffham
KN1904, KN1908. KN1912, KN1916
PORTER, Florence
Assistant of Jasper James Wright (q.v.) of King's Lynn. She is mentioned in the 1898-1900 diary of James Speight (q.v.), and is recorded in the 1901 census as a photographer living with her parents in Austin Street, King's Lynn.
PRESTON & Co
Market Place, Holt
KN1908
PRESTON, Thomas
Market Place, Holt
KN1912
New Street, Holt
KN1916
PRICE, Alfred
26 King Street, Yarmouth
KN1888, WN1890, KN1892, KN1896
68 Southtown Road, Yarmouth
KN1888
(King Street studios)
PRIDGEON, W R
103 High Street, Lynn
WN1864
Originally a clock maker, Pridgeon briefly played host to the business of Oliver Sarony (q.v.), before setting himself up as Sarony's successor in March 1857 (Source: Lynn Advertiser). Dimond reports that, on 3rd April 1865 at Sandringham, Edward, Prince of Wales’ wrote, ‘We and the whole party were photographed (in a group) by Mr Pridgeon, a Lynn photographer and the result was satisfactory.’ A reference in the Lynn Advertiser indicates that he was still in business on 12th Aug 1865, when he was promoting Diamond Cameo Portrait cartes (four pictures per carte, introduced in 1864).
PROUT, J A
Hired to help in the King's Lynn studio of Willliam Woodhouse (q.v.) from 1st January 1866, Prout took over the Blackfriars Road premises in April 1866. Woodhouse reacquired the business in December 1867 or January !868. (Source: Lynn Advertiser)
PURDY, Miss Amy Elizabeth
84 High Street, Lynn
KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
QUINTON, Benjamin J
Rose Lane, Norwich
HN1864, WN1864
Opie Street, Norwich
KN1865, MN1867, KN1869
Bank Street, Norwich
HN1868
Fishgate Street, Norwich
WN1883
QUINTON, Mrs Caroline
Barn Road, Norwich
KN1888
QUINTON, S
Bank Street, Norwich
HN1872
RALPH, Frederick
Victoria Cottage, Dersingham
KN1896, KN1900, KN1904, KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
The Esplanade, Hunstanton
KN1908
High Road, Hunstanton
KN1912
Hunstanton
AN1916
A 1906 cabinet print by F Ralph of Hunstanton records that the photographer is ‘by special appointment to HM the King’. Dimond explains that Ralph was Usher of the Servants’ Hall at Sandringham for nearly four decades, and that for the last few years of this time he combined the role with running a local photographic business. (Dimond believes the Hunstanton branch was established by 1892.) Ralph claimed, in a 1902 magazine interview, to have taught Princess (later Queen) Alexandra to take and process her own photos. Certainly she became a keen photographer and, though grander professional input may have been sought when she learnt the necessary skills, it seems quite possible that she profited from Ralph’s experience and advice.
See also Frederick William Ralph, below.
RALPH, Frederick William
Heacham Road, Hunstanton
KN1896, KN1900
High Road, Hunstanton
TC1901
Southgate, Hunstanton
KN1904
Described in the 1891 census as artist and photographer, Frederick William was the older son of Frederick, above. He worked with his father before setting up in business under his own name.
RALPH, Walter
Cameo Studio, Dersingham
KN1912, KN1916, AN1916
Walter was the younger son of Frederick, above. He, too, started out in his father’s business before running his own studio.
RAY, W
Tower Street, Lynn
KN1858
READ, Alfred E
5 St Peter's Road, Yarmouth
KY1911/12, KY1912, KY1913/14, KY1915/16, KN1916
49 St Peter's Road, Yarmouth
KY1911/12, KN1912, KY1913/14, KY1915/16
READ, A E
21 Wensum Street, Norwich
KN1916
This could possibly be a new branch of the business of Alfred E Read, above.
READWIN, George Francis
34 Knowsley Road, Norwich
KN1900
131a Magdalen Street, Norwich
KN1900, TC1901
TC1901 identifies the Magdalen Street address as 'The County Stores' and offers 'photography at moderate prices'.
REEVE, Mrs G
Old Market Place, Harleston
KN1900, KN1904
REEVE, George R
Harleston
WN1883
Redenhall, Harleston
WN1890
Old Market Place, Harleston
KN1896
REEVE, Harry
Old Market Place, Harleston
KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
REID, Archibald Frederick
Staithe Street, Wells
KN1892
REMINGTON, H
Town Green, Wymondham
KN1900
REYNOLDS, William
102 High Street, Lynn
KN1912, KN1916, AN1916
ROBERTS, Edward H
Recorded in the 1901 census as a photographer, aged 25, boarding in Friars Street, King's Lynn.
ROBINSON, Alfred John
Stratton St Mary, Long Stratton
KN1900, KN1904, KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
RODWELL, Robert
Regent Road, Yarmouth
CY1863
(Regent Road studios)
ROGERS & Havers
Noted by Cory at 5 Davey Place, Norwich, 1859. Hepworth refers to the firm's advertisement in Roger's 1859 directory of Norwich.
ROGERS, Alfred John
Church Street, Cromer
KN1912, KN1916
ROSE, George A
34 Nelson Road North, Yarmouth
TC1901, KN1904
ROSE, George Albert
2 Bell's Road, Gorleston
WN1890
The similarity of names suggests he could be the same as George A Rose, above, but the 14-year gap prompts separate entries.
ROSE, John
41a Exchange Street, Norwich
KN1916
ROYAL, Walter James
West Street, Cromer
KN1912, KN1916
RUMBLE, Albert Ernest
Hilgay, Downham
KN1908
RYDER, W
93 High Street, Lynn
KN1865
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