Dating photograph please I. Cox 5 Sandy Hill Woolwich kent

[rosie99]

Online auction site does not have any other CDV's for this photographer either 

[Gadget]

Searching through old newspaper adverts of 1880-1899, I can only see a W J Cox, and sometimes J Cox, a printer and stationer of Whitstable. He seems to be a stationer, printer and supplier of photographic albums and illustrations.  His address is neither Sandy Hill nor Woolwich!

Just wondering about the lack of a No 5 on the last census. Could it have become a shop/studio only 

[Quester]

Ok, thank you all, that seems to be it, very strange though as it obviously was a proper photographers at one time because of the studio backdrop.
Thanks again for all your help.
Regards Quester.

[okkool]

Hi Rosie,
Thank you so much. How strange that he is listed as a shoemaker. I wonder whether his wife or one of his children was a photographer? So maybe the photo is c 1900 or just before? Regards Quester

A few months ago I came across photos from S Roberts of Leeds. Samuel Roberts was a photographer for abt 10 yrs over the 1881 census period. He sold in 1885. He was a photographers assistant in Blackpool in 1891 and in 1901 he was a tobacconist back in Leeds. He ended up as a butter and cheese maker. So it is quite possible that John Cox is the right person at the right place and that he was a photographer for only a short period after the 1891 census but before 1901 census.

okkool

[okkool]

I took a look through the London Electoral Registers and found a listing for James John Cox living at 5 Sandy Hill Woolwich in 1897 and thereafter. In 1895 William John Pyefinch was living at that address and James John Cox was at 68 Earl St

okkool

[rosie99]

Sadly James John Cox is not at 68 Earl Street in 1901.  It is occupied by Richard Harry Childs and his wife Elizabeth.

[Quester]

Thank you everyone,
 So at least I know the photograph is not before 1897 and that is a great help. So many, many thanks. 
Regards Quester