EARLY SUFFOLK PHOTOGRAPHERS - W-Z
WADDELL, John Smellie
Leiston
KS1912, KS1916
WALLIS, L W
High Street, Mildenhall
KS1900
Mill Street, Mildenhall
KS1904, IDT1906/7, KS1908, KS1912, KS1916
WALTERS, Harry
117 Crown Street, Ipswich
SI1894, KS1896, KS1900, KS1904
113 Crown Street, Ipswich
KS1904
11 St Margaret's Plain, Ipswich
KI1906, IDT1906/7, KS1908, KI1909, KI1910, KS1912, KI1912, KI1913, KI1914, KI1915, KS1916, AS1916, KI1918
IDT1906/7 adds ‘near Christchurch Park’. From KI1912 onwards, the business is listed as ‘H Walters & Son’.
WARREN, W
19 London Road South, Lowestoft
KS1888
WATSON, Frederick
49 Abbeygate Street, Bury
WS1892
99 Northgate Street, Bury
KS1896
Cemetery Road, Bury
KS1900
35 Queen's Road, Bury
KS1904
34 Abbeygate Street, Bury
KS1908
34 Crown Street, Bury
KS1912
WEBB. Henry Arthur
Stradbroke
KS1904, KS1908
near Stradbroke
KS1912
Post Office, Stradbroke
KS1916
WEBSTER, W
The Studio Royal, 105 St Helen's Street, Ipswich
SI1894
WELTON, Henry
Thoroughfare, Woodbridge
KS1900, KS1904, IDT1906/7, KS1908, KS1912, AS1916
26 Thoroughfare, Woodbridge
KS1908
WESTROP
Sheila Miller reports the existence of a carte de visite, probably from the 1860s, by Westrop of Bury St Edmunds. The fact that no trade directories have been found for him suggests that his studio may have been short-lived, and short-lived studios are sometimes a sign of a photographer whose practice was largely itinerant. The uncommonness of the surname does, therefore, make one wonder whether this could be the John Westrop noted by Fairground Ancestors. He is recorded there as a travelling photographer and showman, who attended fairs in Lincoln (1881), Much Hadham, Herefordshire (1891) and Hull (1900). If this is the same man, he had a career duration of 30-40 years.
WHITE, Arthur Leslie
52 Buttermarket, Ipswich
KI1912, KS1912, KI1913, KI1914, KI1915
21 Victoria Parade, Felixstowe
KS1916
WHITE, John
18 Upper Brook Street, Buttermarket, Ipswich
KI1885
18 Upper Brook Street, Ipswich
WS1885, KS1888, JI1890, KS1892, WS1892, SI1894, KS1896, KS1900
52 Buttermarket, Ipswich
WS1892, SI1894, TC1901, KS1904, KI1906, IDT1906/7, KS1908, KI1909, KI1910
13 Victoria Parade, Felixstowe
KS1900
Victoria Parade, Felixstowe
TC1901, IDT1906/7, AS1916
21 Victoria Parade, Felixstowe
KS1904, KS1908, KS1912
21 Hamilton Road, Felixstowe
CF1909
Felixstowe
KI1909
John White cartes, dating from the 1880s & 1890s, give the Ipswich address simply as 18 Brook Street. The Ipswich studio is listed as ‘John White & Son’ in KS1904, IDT1906/7, KS1908, KI1909 and KI1910. The Felixstowe studio is
listed as ‘John White & Son’ in KS1908, CF1909, KI1909 and KS1912.
His advertisement in CF1909 promises ‘Every description of indoor and outdoor photography. Enlargements from any photograph and in any style, finished by experienced artists. Miniatures in permanent ceramic colours on copper enamel, or in water-colours on ivory.’
WHITE, Cade &
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
KS1879, SI1881, KS1883
WHITFIELD, Cosser & Co
43 Carr Street, Ipswich
KS1916
But see also Cosser, in which series of entries this would fill a gap. (An unnecessary comma in KS1916 seems to have created an imaginary partnership of Messrs Whitfield and Cosser instead of referring to the business of George Whitfield Cosser.)
WHITLOCK, W
45 Churchgate Street, Bury
KS1865
WILKINS, Arthur J
65 St John Street, Bury
KS1896
WILKINS, Jeffery
4 Westgate Street, Ipswich
KS1908
WILLIAMS, George
167 Bells Road, Gorleston
KN1904
WILLIAMS, William
Berners Street, Ipswich
WS1844
Listed as ‘photographic portrait artist’, Williams is the earliest known Suffolk studio photographer.
WILSON, Christopher
91 London Road, Lowestoft
KS1904, KS1908
91 London Road North, Lowestoft
IDT1906/7, KS1912, KS1916, AS1916
Wilson is the subject of a book, 'Images of Lowestoft: the photographs of Christopher Wilson' by Ian G Robb (Sutton Publishing, 2002). Robb/Godfrey reports that he first worked (c 1888-1893) in Sleaford, Lincs, before moving to Lowestoft and the studio of Walter Boughton (c1894-1904). Though subsequently setting up his own business, he remained part of the Boughton/Jenkins circle of competing but friendly photographic families. (According to LJ/IR, he succeeded Boughton as official photographer to the mayors of Lowestoft.) The rise of the amateur photographer forced him in later years to take up the developing and printing trade and sell photographic equipment. Though promoting Kodak products as a retailer, he retained a strong personal preference for the products of British photographic manufacturers. The Lowestoft Record office holds a collection of his prints, including some dating from his Sleaford years.
WILSON, Thomas
High Street, Hadleigh
SI1881, SI1885, WS1885, KS1892, SI1894, KS1896, KS1888, KS1900, TC1901, KS1904, IDT1906/7, KS1908
Hadleigh
WS1892
27 High Street, Hadleigh
KS1912
WINTER, Cornelius J W
Regent Street, Yarmouth
WN1854, CN1856
Southtown, Yarmouth
CY1863
High Street, Yarmouth
HN1868
WOOLFE, J H
Westgate Street, Ipswich
KS1908
WOOLSEY, Herbert
Church Street, Eye
KS1888, KS1892, KS1896, KS1900, KS1904, KS1908, KS1912, KS1916
Eye
WS1892
WOOLSTON, Daniel James
12 Arcade, London Road North, Lowestoft
KS1912
12 Victoria Arcade, London Road North, Lowestoft
KS1916
London Road North, Lowestoft
AS1916
The studio appears as 'Arcade Studio, London Road North' on a mount in the possession of Ann Green.
WRIGHT, Samuel
Market Hill, Sudbury
KS1865
14 Market Hill, Sudbury
MS1868
Described in MS1868 as ‘dealer in photographic materials, chemicals, etc.’.
YALLOP, Alfred William
198 High Street, Gorleston
KN1896, TC1901, IDT1906/7
107 High Street, Gorleston
KN1900
17 Harbour Quay, Gorleston
KN1900, KN1904
197 High Street
KN1904
14a King Street, Yarmouth
KN1904, KN1908, KY1911/12, KN1912, KY1913/14, KY1915/16, KN1916
It’s tempting to wonder whether ‘107’ in KN1900 could be a mistake for ‘197’. (King Street studios). Paul Godfrey reports that the Harbour Quay studio was originally a wooden shed, which was eventually replaced by a bricks-and-mortar building. The Yallop business was continued by Alfred's son, Sydney, into the 1960s.
YARDLEY, Miss Alice Olivia
197 & 198 High Street, Gorleston
KN1908, KY1911/12, KN1912, KY1913/14, KY1915/16, KN1916
Harbour Quay, Gorleston
KN1908, KN1912, KN1916
Brush Wharf, Gorleston
KY1911/12, KY1913/14, KY1915/16
High Street, Gorleston
AS1916
Paul Godfrey believes that Harbour Quay and Brush Wharf are probably the same address.
YOUNG, Augustus
74 London Road, Lowestoft
KS1888
95 High Street, Lowestoft
WS1892 KS1892
Kirkley
WS1892
Victoria Terrace, Kirkley, Lowestoft
KS1892 KS1896
Wellington Road, Kirkley, Lowestoft
KS1904 IDT1906/7 KS1908, KS1912
IDT1906/7 and KS1912 omit ‘Kirkley’.
YOUNG, E
Old Station Road, Newmarket
KC1916