EARLY SUFFOLK PHOTOGRAPHERS - C
CABLE, William
Stone Lodge, Ipswich
MS1868
Spring Hill, California, Ipswich
KS1869
CADE, Alfred Henry
Palmerston Road, Ipswich
HS1873
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
WS1885, KS1888, JI1890, WS1892, KS1892, SI1894, KS1896, KS1900, TC1901, KS1904, KI1906, IDT1906/7
The gap of twelve years between 1873 & 1885 could indicate two photographers with the same name.
CADE, Henry
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
SI1885
Could this be Alfred Henry Cade, above?
CADE, Robert
Orwell Place, Ipswich
KS1858
10 Orwell Place, Ipswich
HS1864, KS1865, MS1868, KS1869
Cornhill, Ipswich
HS1873
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
KS1875
Heathcote places Robert Cade at Orwell Place from March 1855, describing him as a watch and clockmaker, jeweller and silversmith who became interested in photography in the early 1850s. On a carte mount dating from the 1870s is printed ‘established 1852’. Cade began as a photographer of mansions and estates, but set up a glasshouse at his premises in 1855 to take collodion portraits and, in the same year, made a portrait of Frederick Scott Archer, the inventor of the process.
CADE & White
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
KS1879, SI1881, KS1883
Successors to Robert Cade, above. A Cade & White carte mount of the, perhaps, early or mid 70s, has the address: Cornhill, Ipswich.
CANN, Porter &
Itinerants who (according to Heathcote) took a studio at 14 Cornhill, Bury, from May to August 1854. They also practised at an unknown address in Newmarket during August 1854.
CARTER, Joshua
Debenham, Stonham
KS1865. KS1869
CHAPMAN, Rogers &
London Road, Lowstoft
KS1858
CHINERY. William
Arcade Studio, Arcade Street, Ipswich
KS1896
108 Bramford Road, Ipswich
TC1901
See also Chinnery.
CHINNERY, W
108 Bramford Road, Ipswich
KS1900
See also Chinery.
CHISNALL, J
Long Melford
WS1874
See also Chiswell.
CHISWELL, John
Long Melford
KS1875
See also the suspiciously similar Chisnall.
CLARKE, Benjamin
South Elmham Street Cross, Harleston
WS1892
This may represent a briefly held additional studio of Benjamin Clarke, below.
CLARKE, Benjamin
Bungay
WS1892
Earsham Street, Bungay
KS1892, KS1896, KS1900, TC1901, KS1904, IDT1906/7, KS1908, KS1912, KS1916
See also Benjamin Clarke of Harleston, above.
CLARKE, Charles C
Aldeburgh
WS1892
1 Brudenell Place, Aldeburgh
IDT1906/7, A1916
The dates and address suggest he is the ‘& Son’ of John Charles Clarke and Son, below. Brudenell is spelt ‘Brundell’ in A1916.
CLARKE, John Charles
Brudenell Terrace, Aldeburgh
KS1865, WS1874
1 Brudenell Terrace, Aldeburgh
MS1868, KS1869, KS1875, KS1879, KS1883, WS1885
Southwold
WS1892
Sutherland House, High Street, Southwold
KS1892
Brudenell Place, Aldeburgh
TC1901
Brudenell is spelt ‘Brundenell’ in KS1879. See also John Charles Clarke & Son, below.
CLARKE, John Charles, & Son
1 Brudenell Terrace, Aldeburgh
KS1888, KS1892 KS1896, KS1900, KS1904 KS1908, KS1912, KS1916
High Street Aldeburgh
KS1896, KS1900, KS1904 KS1908, KS1912, KS1916
Brudenell is spelt ‘Brundenell’ in KS1892. See also Charles C Clarke and John Charles Clarke, above.
CLARKE, John Palmer
7 Angel Hill, Bury
KS1888, KS1892, KS1896, KS1900
31 Abbeygate Street, Bury
KS1896, KS1900
Angel Hill, Bury
TC1901
The son of John William Clarke, below. Jarman recounts that John Palmer Clarke moved to Cambridge in 1903, when the firm’s negative stock passed to H I Jarman. For a few years before the move, Clarke seems to have maintained studios in both towns. For his later history, see the Cambridge Directory.
CLARKE, John William
28 Angel Hill, & Whiting Street, Bury
MS1868
Meat Market, Bury
KS1869, HS1873
Angel Hill & 3 Meat Market, Bury
KS1875
7 Angel Hill Bury
KS1879, KS1883, WS1885, WS1892
41 Abbeygate Street, Bury
KS1879
31 Abbeygate Street, Bury
WS1892
The father of John Palmer Clarke, above. Jarman says that the firm also had premises in King's Road, Bury. These are shown in a photograph dating from about 1875, where a yard formed an open-air studio for equestrian pictures. In addition to their work as portrait photographers, the Clarkes were very active in the field of topographical photography, and their views contribute significantly to the surviving record of the Bury area.
A carte from, probably, the 1880s gives the address ‘7 Abbey Hill, opposite Abbey Gate’.
COBB, William
16 Victoria Street, London Road, Ipswich
KS1858
1 Clarkson Street, Ipswich
HS1864
London Road, Ipswich
HS1864 MS1868
Norwich Road, Ipswich
KS1865 KS1869
Cobb's advertisement in HS1864 boasts of ‘the largest studio and the best arrangement of light in the Eastern Counties’. For twelve ‘album portraits’ he charged 10/6d. A mount from the early 1860s, with no more precise address than ‘Ipswich’, bears the Masonic square and compass symbols.
CONYERS, Henry James
53 Elsie Road, Southtown, Yarmouth
WN1890
COOPER, John
Turret Lane, Ipswich
KS1858, HS1864
92 North Street, Sudbury
WS1874
See also Ambrose Copsey.
COPPING, Willie
Cockfield
KS189
COPSEY. Ambrose
Friars Street, Sudbury
KS1865
10 Market Hill, Sudbury
MS1868, KS1869
North Street, Sudbury
HS1873
92 North Street, Sudbury
KS1875
Sepulchre Street, Sudbury
KS1879
8 Sepulchre Street, Sudbury
KS1883, WS1885
Additional information from local historian Lyn Boothman: Copsey was born 1831/2 in Glemsford, Suffolk, and married in the Bury St Edmunds district in 1855. By 1857 he was working as a cabinetmaker in Long Melford. The 1861 census finds him in Long Melford as a photographic artist with four children. A fifth child was baptised there later that year.
See also Copey.
COPSEY, Archibald
6 Melford Road, Sudbury
WS1892
CORK, Charles S
Bridge Street, Hadleigh
WS1874
CORNABY, James G
19 Albert Place, London Road South, Lowestoft
HN1872
CORNABY, James S
19 London Road South, Lowestoft
WS1874
COSSER, George Whitfield, & Co
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
KS1912, KI1912, KI1913, KI1914
43 Carr Street (late Westgate Street), Ipswich
KI1915, KI1918
The 4 Westgate Street studio was formerly the premises of successive Cade (q.v.) photographers. George Whitfield Cosser also operated for many years in Colchester, Essex, and briefly had a studio at King's Lynn, Norfolk (KN1912).
See also Whitfield.
COURT, Eliza
Wife of James Court, below. Jayne Greenacre draws attention to the fact that, in the 1871 Southwold census, it is Eliza who is described as a photographer, while James is referred to as a watchmaker. In the 1881 census, the widowed Eliza is entered as both watchmaker and photographer. Her niece married Eugene Arthur Finch (q.v.).
COURT, James
High Street, Southwold
MS1868, KS1869, HS1873, WS1874, KS1875
Described as ‘watchmaker & photographer’ in 1868 and 1873.
COUSINS, G S
35 Brentgovel Street, Bury
KS1896
30 Butter Market, Bury
KS1900, KS1904, KS1908, KS1912
Butter Market, Bury
TC1901
CRACKNELL, M P
Worlingworth, Wickham Market
KS1865
CROUGHTON, George
19 London Road South, Lowestoft
KS1875, KS1879, WS1885
CROUGHTON, H
London Road South, Lowestoft
HN1877
CUBITT, Charles Edward
Lowestoft
WS1892
1 Suffolk Road, Lowestoft
KS1892
CULLINGHAM, B
London Road, Lowestoft
HN1872
CUNDALL, Downes & Co
49 Abbeygate Street, Bury
KS1865, MS1868
This partnership, formed in 1858, was one of a number set up by Joseph Cundall under the auspices of the Photographic Institution, which he established in London in 1852. (Another of his partnerships – formed c1855 – was with Robert Howlett, who made the famous portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the deck of the Great Eastern.)
Born in Ipswich, a printer by trade and later a publisher & photographer, Cundall was (according to Dimond & Taylor) a founder member of the Photographic Society of London, and an indefatigable arranger of exhibitions and promoter of other photographers. He died in 1895.
CUTHBERT & Co
49 St Matthew's Street, Ipswich
KS1912