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Directory of Early Photographers in Suffolk - A - BABBOTT, Charles
Two different Charles Abbotts may be represented here. The second would appear to be the successor to Joseph H Abbott, below. ABBOTT, J H
See also Joseph H Abbott, below. ABBOTT, Joseph H
A connection with J H Abbott, above, seems possible, but there is a gap of 27 years. ABEL, Thomas
ALDERTON, Robert Ernest
ALDERTON & Goodwin
ALDIS, Elijah
ALDOUS, W & P
ALEXANDER, R D According to 'The Ipswich Journal' (26.12.1868), he had a 'private photographic studio' in the 1850s. Though himself, apparently, an amateur, he employed as his assistant William Cobb (q.v.), who went on to become a prominent Ipswich professional photographer. ALLEN, George
ARBON, William
ARCADE Photographic Co
For Arcade Studio, see Chinery. ARMSTRONG, Self &
ARTIS, Frederick
ASTON, William
BALLS, Frederick
BANYARD, James Charles
See also Banyards. BANYARDS, C
See also Banyard. BARKWAY, Frederick M
BARR, W
BARRETT, F
BARRETT, John
WS abbreviates Lowestoft & Ipswich to their initial letter. It seems likely that WS1892 misprints ‘I’ for ‘L’. BARRETT, Michael Frederick
BATLEY, Walter
SI1894 shows Walter Patley (q.v.) at 12 St Matthew's Street, but enters him in the B section of the alphabetical order. BAWDEN, William
Also described as 'newsagent, stationer & tobacconist'. BAXTER, John James
BEALES, George Anthony
This studio was later occupied by Edward Adolphus Tear (q.v.). BEATTIE, John Heathcote identifies Beattie as an early daguerreotypist and (from 1851) a wet plate photographer. Scottish by birth (c1820), he spent time in eastern England, including periods in Norfolk and Suffolk, before settling in Bristol in 1858 (Linkman). Heathcote lists his Suffolk studios as: Northgate Hill, Bury, from April to July 1852; Angel Hill, Bury, from October to December 1854; Upper Olland Street, Bungay, from April to May 1855; Museum Street, Ipswich, in December 1855. According to 'The Norwich Mercury' and 'The Norfolk News', he also worked in July and August 1856 'at the top of London Road, Lowestoft, next to the Baptist Chapel'. A 'Norfolk News' advertisement of 21st June 1856 refers to a previous visit to Lowestoft six years earlier. Whilst, this appears to indicate a visit to the town in 1850, Beattie's counting of the years may have been a little approximate. (He was in Great Yarmouth, just across the Norfolk border, in 1852, and that could have been close to the time of his first Lowestoft visit.) BEDFORD, Carus C
KI1910 also shows Bedford as offering ‘cinematograph & lantern entertainments’. KI1913 shows him working at Ebor House as a ‘photographic material & gramophone & record dealer’, but no longer, apparently, as a studio photographer. BEDWELL, J
BEERE, Henry William
BERRY, Miss Susanna
Described in KS1888 as ‘photographic colourist’. BEVAN, Henry William
According to Robb/Godfrey, glass negatives from Bevan's studio passed into the hands of the Jenkins family, when they took over the premises. They survived in the Pier Terrace basement until lost (along with Jenkins plates) in the East Coast floods of 1953. Some of the Bevan archive may, however, have already been lost in the earlier floods of 1897. The Robb/Godfrey correspondence dates the Bevan studio to 1874-1896. According to LJ/IR, Bevan was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1852 and arrived in Lowestoft in 1874, when he took over the photographic interests of William Reed and of Delaney & Co. His wife, Clarissa (whom he married in 1876), was from Lowestoft, and they had three children. He was appointed official photographer to the mayors of Lowestoft and in 1877 (shortly before her death at the age of 103) he photographed Lady Pleasance Smith, daughter of the Lord of the Manor of Lowestoft and wife of the Linnaean Society’s founder. Bevan sold the business to Harry Jenkins in 1898 and died in 1927. BEVAN, J
BOATWRIGHT, Ambrose
Described in MS1868 as ‘photographer & agent to the Library Company’; described in HS1873 as ‘photographer, stationer, toy & fancy repository’. BOOTH, George Active in the early 20th century in Church Street, Woodbridge. He was a printer, stationer and photographic publisher, but he may not have been a photographer in his own right. BOUGHEN, Hugh
Ben McKenzie confirms that this is the same Hugh Boughen as had previously run a studio in Derbyshire. BOUGHTON’s
This must refer to the firm of Walter Boughton, below. BOUGHTON, Robert Thomas
BOUGHTON, Walter, & Sons
The KS1900 entries are separate, but in view of the firm's moves and expansions, these two Suffolk studios seem likely to be part of the same chain. This is the same business that had a changing pattern of branches in four Norfolk towns between 1883 & 1912, for which see Boughton in the Norfolk Directory. A carte, apparently from the late 1890s, also mentions a studio at Bury St Edmunds. Its coincidence with the other studios mentioned on the mount – Lowestoft, Thetford & Yarmouth – would tie in with the state of the Boughton chain at around 1896. But the Bury business began operations rather earlier in the decade. An advertisement, discovered by David Gobbitt in the 'Bury and Norwich Post', 5th September 1893, states that the Bury studio has recently been opened and locates it at 7 Market Hill. According to LJ/IR, Boughton succeeded H W Bevan as official photographer to the mayors of Lowestoft. Robb/Godfrey notes that the Boughton, Jenkins and Wilson families were business competitors in Lowestoft but maintained strong social links.The studio at 54 London Road continued in use for many years, with Walter being succeeded by his son and grandson. Paul Godfrey's memories of the premises in the 1960s form a separate studio note. BOULTWOOD, Sidney He had automatic photo studios in Lowestoft and Ipswich shortly before the beginning of the First World War. For further details, see entry for ‘StickyBacks studios’. BRIDGMAN, Thomas Cooper
Recorded by Heathcote as an itinerant, who described his process as ‘actinographic’, and who set up a studio at Botanic Gardens, Bury, July to August 1854. His appearance at a different address in WS1855, however, suggests a second or a longer stay in the town. An earlier presence in the town is also indicated: his discovery of an improved version of the collodion process was reported by the 'Bury and Norwich Post' on 1st June 1853. (No address was mentioned on that occasion.) BROOKS, C E
See also Charles Brookes below. BROOKES Charles E
See also C E Brookes above. BROWN, Tom
BUGG, Arthur A
Malster describes his Finborough Road studio as 'a small hut'. BURROUGHES, Frank Smith
See also Burroughs. Note: Gorleston was a Suffolk parish until the early 1800s when it became a part of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. We have therefore included Gorleston photographers in both county listings. BURROUGHS, Frank S
See also Burroughes. Note: Gorleston was a Suffolk parish until the early 1800s when it became a part of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. We have therefore included Gorleston photographers in both county listings. BURROWS, Henry
BURROWS, Robert
He may (in the light of the Burrows entry below) have been the father of R Burrows junior, below. But Robert Burrows senior may not have been a photographer at all, and the two Roberts in this list may have been the same person. Malster gives the dates of Robert Burrows as 1810-1883 and describes him as an Ipswich professional artist who took up photography in the 1850s. BURROWS, Robert, junior
Possibly, but not necessarily, the son of R Burrows, above. WS1855 shows a Robert Burrows junior as an artist at the Cattle Market, Ipswich.
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