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OH, MY GOODNESS!!!!   

This is absolutely amazing, these are definitely my relatives.

Fairbank Camplin' sister married into the Woolhouse family and raised a flock of baby Woolhouses.   I know Fairbank emigrated to Vancouver shortly after, possibly as a result  this episode.   Isn't it ironic that I'm in regular contact with a Woolhouse descendant found through here.  I wonder what his reactions will be about all this.

Can you please tell me where I can see these newspaper reports for myself? They will certainly go in a prominent position in the FH scrapbook.

A very grateful and totally gobsmacked / stunned
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P.S.  I'll be back with further comment - this could get quite interesting!   

I have recently inherited this amazingly large, rolled-up print, measuring exactly 20” x 16”.

 -  I’d really like to know the date so I can narrow down the individual.  Any ideas?

 -  I’m amazed at the size of the print and wonder if this is it’s original size that would have
     been framed, or is it just as likely to be a more recent copy, or enlargement.

 -  Bearing in mind the contents of the studio and the size of the print, is it reasonable to
     assume this young lady was from something other than "the working class”?

Thoughts would be greatly welcomed
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I'm very much hoping someone can shed some light on what it was like for my ancestors to live in W. Norwood 1869–1940.

The Camplin family who were builders, lived in Clive Road, Hamilton Grove / Road and Rommany Road from the time they came into London to help with, what was then, the new housing development in the area.

I know my Grandfather, his sons and cousins all attended the Salters Hill School over the period 1895 to 1929 and I suppose several of their ancestors also attended the same school, but I don’t know where it was, or when it was built. I also suppose the fathers and young men often frequented the Bricklayers Arms, thought to have been built mid 1860’s. Does anyone know of other pubs close by?

The only stories that have been passed down to me are that one relative was chief engineer at Crystal Palace at some point and another Camplin owned a grocers shop 1908-1914, which I guess was in the High St. somewhere.

Other names that were linked through marriage were: Amory, Barrett, Carr, Coe, Cripps, Goatley, Golding, Kingdon, Kroll, Matthews, Walters, Watts, Williams, Woolhouse.

That's all I know and would dearly love to learn more by way of stories of events and celebrations, old photographs of the streets and housing, etc. Does anyone have an idea when the various roads acquired their new housing – I can see from Google Earth that several of the 1800’s houses are still standing today.

I have just a small handful of snaps, which I’d be very happy to share.

Thank you everyone for the help you've given me.  It's very impressive how you've managed to get rid of a lot of the noise, I didn't think for one moment that it would be easy.

So, William was sporting a "Newgate Frill", not fox-fur on his coat collar!  I'm slightly surprised beards were tolerated where he worked - the Huntley & Palmer's biscuit factory.  I can imagine a few customers finding a bonus hair when they opened their packets of digestive creams.   

Not that I'm at all good at guessing people's ages, but the little girl looks to me to be aged around 8.  Being there is only one child in the photo, I imagine it to be the youngest who was Edith born 1872.  This would make the photo to have been taken say 1879/80, with William aged 44 and Mary 45.

Thanks again everyone.
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Thanks Sue,

I will definitely get these.  I actually have maps in electronic form (.jpg) for 1824, 1876, 1877 and 1918 if you would like me to e-mail them to you.

Graham