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The Basingstoke studio of photographer Thomas Remley Prewett (1857-1932) was at 40 Wote Street for no more than 14 months (possibly just one year) from October 1893.
Findmypast subscribers can find relevant advertisements in the Hants and Berks Gazette:
1893 Oct. 21 page 4 column 1:
"WANTED TO BE KNOWN. -- T. R. PREWETT, THE GOOD PHOTOGRAPHER, late of 17, Wote-street, will re-commence business on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1893, at 40, WOTE STREET, opposite Angell's Champion Clothing Establishment."
1893 Oct. 21 p. 8 col. 2:
"Mr. PREWETT begs to state that he does not indend leaving Basingstoke at all now, as he has secured new premises at 40 Wote-street, and has built a studio with a direct north light which cannot be excelled for portraiture. Mr. Prewett was most successful with children at 17, Wote-street, in the morning. Now he has a proper light he will be able to take them at any hour in the day."
A few months earlier, at the end of a long report of the royal marriage celebrations (8 July 1893 p. 8 col. 4) the Gazette mentioned: "We understand that Mr. Prewett is leaving the town at Michaelmas."
In the 23 September 1893 edition (p. 4 col. 1) he announced that he would be removing from Wote Street to more convenient premises at 37 Winchester Street, opposite the "Wheatsheaf", on Thursday 28 September. This plan must have fallen through very swiftly, perhaps before Michaelmas (29 September), when rental terms would often start or finish.
Prewett's studio at 40 Woke Street was still being advertised a year later (e.g. 29 September 1894 p. 4 col. 1). But there was a new proprietor before Christmas: "H. M. RUMBLE (late T. R. Prewett)" (15 December 1894 p. 4 col. 3). In the 1901 census, Thomas is described as a travelling photographer at Gravesend, Kent.
David