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Thank you Jim.
That would seem to link in with what I can find on Phillips and Freckleton. My reading suggests that photo mounts of this type are more generally associated with pre 1900 than post so that fits.
Phillip and Freckleton seems to have been a loose and short lived partnership between two exisiting Nottingham photographers being Albert Phillips of Phillips and Co and Joseph Walter Freckleton of Freckleton and Co.
The only directory entries for Freckleton and Co are found in Nottingham's Wrights 1894-5 and Wrights 1898/9. The address being (1894-5) 69 1/2 Long Row West Market St Nottingham and (1898-9) 63 Long Row West Market St. Bother these addresses are given as also being that of Freckleton and Co while Phillips and Co have a separate Nottingham address.
I can find no reference of Phillips and Frecketon in Leicester or Loughborough. The only clues seem to be that the 20 Market Place address for Leicester has been a photographic studio for both F Brown (1887/8) and Arthur Moore (Kelly's 1895). However Phillips and Co (confirmed as the same Nottingham business and Albert Phillips) appears at 2 Museum Terrace, New Walk Leicester in 1899 (Kelly's) and continues through to 1909 with a change of address to 68 New Walk Leicester about 1903.
It is therefore my guess that Phillips and Freckleton briefly had addresses in Leicester and Loughborough between 1894 and 1898 but that they ceased when the partnership seems to have dissolved around 1899.
This also fits well with Jim's estimate of date and, for me at least, points to these photos being from the period 1894/5 to 1898/9.
GAH - I am not sure how this fits with your dates for Fanny Owen?
ATB - Mark
Added - A Leicester Mercury article published 14/8/1897 details a court case where Phillips and Freckleton are being sued. They are said to be of "New Walk" Leicester at this time.
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