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My gr grandfather and George E Swain had quite an interesting past. With Percy John Swain actually using an alias of John Percy for a few years until his brother helped him out financially.
SWAIN, George Edwin
2a Davey Place, Norwich
KN1908, KN1912, AN1916
1867-1933. He was a photographer by 1891, when, at the age of 24, with his wife, Clara, and two small children, he was in Luton, Bedfordshire. He was still in Luton in 1901. By 1905 he was working as a photographer in Adelaide, Australia, where (Paul Godfrey has discovered) he was knocked off his bicycle by a negligently-driven horse and trap. He was back in England in 1907, for he took on the Davey Place studio in Norwich when his younger brother Percy (see below) ran into debt at the end of the year. The Davey Place studio was augmented and then succeeded by one in St Giles Street (see entries for Mrs Swain, below). After the First World War Swain was active in the moving picture industry, recording current events for showing in local cinemas. His son, also George, followed in his footsteps. (Stephen Peart: 'The Picture House in East Anglia', [Terence Dalton, 1980]).
SWAIN, Mrs G
25 St Giles Street, Norwich
AN1916
See, also, Mrs M Swain, below.
SWAIN, Mrs M
27 St Giles Street, Norwich
KN1912, JN1914, KN1916
This is Mildred Mary Swain, 1879-1962, wife of George (above). From the opening of the Davey Place studio onward, the Swain photography business seems to have involved both George and Mildred, and for a time they appear to have been running two studios. Their son, also George, joined the family business towards the end of the First World War, at the age of sixteen. (Everitt).
SWAIN, Percy John
Born c1883, Percy was the much younger brother of George Edwin Swain, above. In 1901 he was working in London as a boot-shop assistant. Other details, including his period as a photographer in Norwich, can be pieced together from a report found by Paul Godfrey in the 'Norfolk Chronicle', 29th Feb 1908, together with a follow-up piece on 28th March:
Before going to London, he had, in 1899, become a chemist's assistant in Luton. In 1902 he set up as a photographer in Hastings, Sussex, but was in financial difficulties after two years. Leaving Hastings with debts unpaid, he took a variety of jobs in different places, working under the alias of 'John Percy'. In March 1907 he arrived in Norwich and joined Louis Smith (q.v.), whom he had known in London. They acquired a former studio at 2a Davey Place and set up as photographers. In September 1907 the partners hired further premises at Orford Place, which they ran as the Lightning Speed Photography Gallery. Smith managed the new studio, while Swain (still generally known as John Percy) stayed at Davey Place. In December, Smith wanted to dissolve the partnership and carry on alone. This led to the drawiinng-up of documents that referred to Swain by his real name (under which his earlier debts had been incurred), and Swain decided to file a petition for bankruptcy. In due course his brother George took on the Davey Place business.
Percy Swain moved on, and in 1911 he was working as a photographer in Loughborough.
http://www.early-photographers.org.uk/Nor%20S.html
