EARLY SUFFOLK PHOTOGRAPHERS - S
SAUNDERS, James
Kirkley, Lowestoft
KS1858
Harding's Cottages, Kirkley, Lowestoft
HN1863, HS1864
London Road, Kirkley, Lowestoft
HN1868
1 Providence Place, Lowestoft
MS1868, KS1869
He is referred to as ‘James Saunders junior’ in KS1869. This may mark a transfer of the business from father to son, but the use of ‘junior’ in trade directories does not always seem consistent. A Saunders carte mount, dating from the late 60s, gives the 1 Providence Place address, and offers the spelling, ‘Kirtley’.
SAWYER, J R
Sawyer was a Norwich photographer, details of whom can be found in the Norfolk Directory. One of his carte mount designs from the (probably late) 60s refers to an additional studio at 18 Brook Street, corner of Butter Market, Ipswich.
SAYERS, Fras. H
19 London Road South, Lowestoft
KS1892
SCRIVENER, Charles
13 Well Street, Bury
MS1868
SCRIVENER, Frederick
Norwich Road, Ipswich
HS1864
13 Well Street, Bury
HS1864, KS1865
Cutler Street, Ipswich
KS1865, KS1869
18˝ Norwich Road, Ipswich
KS1869, KS1865, MS1868
11 Well Street, Bury
KS1869
Well Street, Bury
HS1873
7 Norwich Road, Ipswich
KS1875
SELF, John
Framlingham & Saxmundham
WS1892
Wellclose Square, Framlingham
KS1896, KS1900, KS1904, KS1908, KS1912, KS1916
‘J.P.’ is appended to his name in KS1916.
SELF & Armstrong
Wellclose Square, Framlingham
KS1892
SEYMOUR, Jonas D
12 St Nicholas Street, Ipswich
WS1885
SHERBORN, Henry Robert
Wellington Street, Newmarket
WS1874, KC1875, KC1883, WS1885
Church Lane, Newmarket
KC1875, KC1879
High Street, Newmarket
KC1888, KC1892, KC1896, KC1900, TC1901, KC1904, KC1908, KC1912, KC1916, AC1916
Newmarket
WS1892
‘FRPS’ is appended to his name in KC1896. Described in TC1901 as 'also photographic dealer'.
SHORT, William
Church Street, Eye
WS1874, KS1875
SMITH, J
Wickhambrook
KS1858
SMITH, Thomas T
New Street, Woodbridge
KS1896
SMITH, Walter Azembey
11 Brook Street, Ipswich
MS1868
18 Upper Brook Street, Ipswich
KS1869, KS1875, KS1879, SI1881, KS1883
18 Brook Street
HS1873
‘& Co’ is added to his name in KS1883. SI1881 adds ‘corner of Butter Market’ to the address.
SOUTHGATE, H J
Upper Orwell Place, Ipswich
IDT1906/7, AS1916
SPANTON, William
16 Abbeygate Street, Bury
KS1865, MS1868, KS1869
Jarman relates that Spanton's ‘Repository of Arts & West Suffolk Photographic Establishment’, housed in a building of his own design in Abbeygate Street, was in operation by 1864. Versed in a variety of building and decorating trades, Spanton concentrated in the late 1860s on photography, framing and gilding. He died in 1870, aged 47.
SPANTON, William Silas
16 Abbeygate Street, Bury
KS1875, KS1879, KS1883, WS1885, KS1888, WS1892, KS1892, KS1896, KS1900, TC1901
Jarman says that William Silas (the son of William Spanton, above) gave up art training in London to take over the business on his father's death in 1870. He diversified into the sale of art materials and built up a practice as an optician. He was prominent in local affairs, and was involved in the conversion of Moyses Hall, Bury, to a museum. As a photographer, he resisted the introduction of electric light in his studio until his retirement in 1901. A photograph of his north-light studio, dating from about 1900, shows some up-to-date props, but also shows natural lighting arrangements that would have looked much the same 30 or so years before.
SPARROW, Horace
George Street, Brandon
KS1904, KS1908
High Street, Brandon
KS1912
18 & 20 High Street, Brandon
KS1916
SPRINGTHORPE, George
18 Tacket Street, Ipswich
MS1868, KS1869, HS1873, KS1875, KS1879, SI1881, KS1883, SI1885, WS1885, KS1888
20 Tacket Street, Ipswich
SI1881, SI1885, WS1885
STAINER, Maurice
Descendant Steve Clarke reports that Stainer had a studio on New Road, Saxmundham, in 1881. See, also, Stainer in the Norfolk directory.
STANLEY, Alfred H
25 Bury Street, Stowmarket
KS1912, KS1916, AS1916
See also Fred Stanley, below.
STANLEY, Fred H
Woolpit
KS1904, KS1908
‘Fred’ is a possible contraction of ‘Alfred’. See Alfred Stanley, above.
STEVENS, F W
Mendlesham
KS1912, KS1916
STOKES, J
Grey Friars' Road, Ipswich
KS1858, KS1865
40 St Peter's Street, Ipswich
KS1865
Unless it records a fourth J Stokes, KS1858 seems most likely to refer to Josiah Stokes, below. KS1865 could refer to either Josiah or Joseph.
STOKES, Joseph
28 Grey Friars Road, Ipswich
KS1869, HS1873, KS1875
See also J Stokes, above.
STOKES, Joshua
28 Greyfriars Street, Ipswich
MS1868
STOKES, Josiah
Friars' Road, Ipswich
HS1864
See also J Stokes, above.
STOKES, Thomas
Clare
KS1896
This entry seems likely to be a mistaken version of Thomas Stokoe, below.
STOKOE, Thomas
Clare
KS1879, KS1883, KS1888, WS1892, KS1892, KS1900, KS1904
High Street, Haverhill
KS1883, KS1888
Market Hill, Clare
WS1885, KS1912
Haverhill
WS1885, WS1892
High Street, Clare
KS1908
KS1883 says that attendance at the Haverhill studio is ‘every Friday and first & second Saturdays in the month’. See also Thomas Stokes, above.
SYRETT, R J
13 Hatter Street, Bury
WS1855
Heathcote records that Syrett ran the Hatter Street studio from June 1853 until July 1854. He subsequently formed part of the Gilliam & Syrett partnership that had premises in London Road, Lowestoft, in July 1855.