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Professional photographers in London
« on: Friday 21 August 09 19:50 BST (UK) »
I have just found some old photographs of family members, although I can't indentify the sitters, which were taken in the East London area at the following establishments;

Calvert 192 Barking Road
A.J. Hilder 267 Barking Road Plaistow
J.E. Reeves 50 Hermit Road Canning Town
F.W. Clark 19 Alice Road Stratford.

There was also one taken at the Star Photographic Studio in Wellington, Nilgiris, India.

Does anyone know about these company's or where i would best look to find out about them? Ideally I would like to know when they started up and closed down the business.

Regards
Ross - East Lothian.
Kirkham - Nottinghamshire.
Barker - Essex.

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Re: Professional photographers in London
« Reply #1 on: Friday 21 August 09 20:12 BST (UK) »
Hi

AJ Hilder appears on the photolondon.org.uk site - listed at that address in 1891 and 1901 Census.

Best wishes

aidem

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Re: Professional photographers in London
« Reply #2 on: Friday 21 August 09 21:44 BST (UK) »
This is another site that I've found helpful

http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/
Bristow - Surrey
Clayson - Kent/ Surrey/ Canada
Crawford - Lanarkshire/ Canada
Early - Oxfordshire/ Essex/ Hampshire/ Canada
Ellam - Yorkshire
Goldthorpe - Yorkshire/ Canada
Rowe - Hampshire
Snell - Essex/ Surrey
Yale - Shropshire

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Re: Professional photographers in London
« Reply #3 on: Friday 21 August 09 22:25 BST (UK) »
This is the site you want.
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/default.asp
If you can scan the photos front & back & put them on here we'll probably be able to date them more accurately.

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Re: Professional photographers in London
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 23 August 09 19:43 BST (UK) »
Thank you for the pointers. Very helpful.
Ross - East Lothian.
Kirkham - Nottinghamshire.
Barker - Essex.

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Re: Professional photographers in London
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 March 11 09:32 GMT (UK) »
I know the original post was now quite a long time ago, but I wondered if you are still looking for information? I know a bit about J.E. Reeves as he was my gt gt grandfather.

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Eliza

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Re: Professional photographers in London
« Reply #6 on: Friday 04 March 11 11:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi Eliza,

Great to hear from you.

I was given a few old photos a couple of years ago but didn't know who the sitters were. At the time of the original post I was looking to see if the photographers kept a log of their customers and if they were in existence. Also I was trying to date them to figure out who was who from that information.

I have attached the photo for you, in case you don't have any examples of your ancestors work.

I would like to know the years the studio was open and if any of his records survived?

Kind regards

Paul
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Kirkham - Nottinghamshire.
Barker - Essex.

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« Reply #7 on: Friday 04 March 11 15:49 GMT (UK) »
Wonderful photo...the lady has quite a bit of bling on her wedding finger :)

Datewise I would suggest about 1898-1900ish, as she is wearing the puffball sleeving that were in style after the huge gigot sleeves went out of fashion in 1897. Give or take a year or so.

There is some information on J. E. Reeves' financial proceedings here:
 http://www.rootschat.com/links/0c4i/   

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« Reply #8 on: Friday 04 March 11 16:42 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks for the photo, Paul. As a family we have a couple that might have been taken either by him or by his daughter and son-in-law, so it is lovely to see this one. One he took of the West Ham Football Team was in an auction of football stuff fairly recently.

I'll dig out exactly what I have over the weekend, and get back.

Yes, China, the financial stuff is interesting and we suspect it may have been one of the factors that prompted his move to Australia!

Regards,
Eliza
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