Directory of Early Photographers in Suffolk - F - G

FARRINGDON, John Irving

4 Lower Baxter Street, Bury
KS1912

FARTHING, Thomas F

Tacket Street, Ipswich
HS1873

28 Tacket Street, Ipswich
WS1874, KS1875, KS1879

26 Tacket Street, Ipswich
SI1881

FENTON, George

Presumably a Bury photographer. He is mentioned as the employer of William Collings, photographer, in a 'Bury and Norwich Post' court report, 13th May 1862. (For brief details of the case, see Collings' entry.)

FIELD, C E

Yoxford
KS1908

FINCH, Arthur

High Street, Southwold
KS1883, WS1885

Eugene Arthur Finch (also known as Arthur Aegena Finch) was one of a family of photographers originating from Norwich. Jayne Greenacre reports that he married the niece of Eliza Court (q.v.) in Southwold in 1876, but that he was still working with his father in and around Acle, Norfolk, in 1877. His 1880s studio in Southwold High Street appears to be the one formerly run by his wife's relations. He died in 1883, so the entry in WS 1885 could indicate a considerable time lag between the collection of trade directory information and its actual publication. Alternatively, it could be the result of a family member continuing the business under Arthur's name. Neither scenario would be unprecedented.

For background information on the Finch family, see entries under Aegena, Finch and Fynch in the Norfolk studio directory.

FISHER, Alfred

Thoroughfare, Woodbridge
KS1875, KS1879, KS1883

FISK, A G

St John's Street, Woodbridge
HS1873

Considering the 1873 gap in the record of Alfred Samuel Fisk, below, considering the address, and considering that this is the only A G Fisk entry, a misprint seems likely.

FISK, Alfred Samuel

New Street, Woodbridge
KS1858, KS1865, MS1868, KS1869, WS1874, SI1881, SI1885, WS1885, KS1888, WS1892

St John's Street, Woodbridge
HS1864, KS1875, KS1879, SI1881, KS1883, SI1894

Woodbridge
WS1892

St John's, Woodbridge
KS1896

See A G Fisk, above, for a possible explanation of the lack of an 1873 entry.

Fisk's advertisement in HS1864 speaks of ‘Ten years' practical experience in Photography & Art’ and insists that his studio has ‘the most perfect arrangement of light and shade to suit the contour of each Sitter’. ‘Private waiting and dressing rooms are available’. An advertisement in WS1874, found by David Gobbitt, gives the more precise etablishment date of 1852.

David has also supplied some further information: Fisk was described as a cabinet maker (like his father, Samuel) at the time of his 1858 marriage to Sarah Gammage, and the 1861 census listed him as 'cabinet maker and photographer'. He won a bronze medal 'for excellence in photography' at the Needham Market Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition in 1867 and a bronze medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 for pictures of animals. 'The Ipswich Journal' of 17th July 1867 praised the clouds in his pictures, though a year later (8th August 1868) the same paper questioned their authenticity.

FISKE, George G

Creeting, Needham Market
WS1885

See also George O Fiske, below.

FISKE, George O

Creeting, Needham Market
WS1892

See also George G Fiske, above.

FOSDIKE, Edward A

Earl Soham
WS1892

FREEMAN, William

Mansion House Buildings, Westgate Street, Ipswich
HS1864

FROST, James

Stanton, Bury
KS1908, KS1912, KS1916

GAGER, Thomas

61 Station Road, Sudbury
KS1900

GARROD, Jesse

College Road, Framlingham
KS1888

GATES, Thomas

52 Station Road, Sudbury
TC1910, KS1896

61 Station Road, Sudbury
KS1904

Station Road, Sudbury
IDT1906/7

1 Station Road, Sudbury
KS1908, KS1912

GILL, John H

40 Church Terrace, Bury
WS1892

77 Whiting Street, Bury
KS1896, KS1900, KS1904, KS1908, KS1912, KS1916

Whiting Street, Bury
TC1901, IDT1906/7, AS1916

An advertisement, discovered by David Gobbitt in the 'Bury and Norwich Post', 5th September 1893, refers to Gill's recent opening of the studio at 77 Whiting Street. The advertisement also reveals that Gill was 'For many years with Mr W S Spanton' (q.v.).

GILL, William

Appleby relates that Gill became apprenticed, at the age of 15, to William Vick (q.v.) of Ipswich. He eventually set up his own business in Colchester, Essex, in the 1880s, and subsequently became known both for his writing on photography and for his pictures taken under such difficult lighting conditions as moonlight and sunsets.

GILL, W

Head Street, Ipswich
AS1916

Some confusion is half suspected here. According to Appleby, W R Gill, son of William Gill, above, was running a studio at Head Street, Colchester, Essex, at this time. There was (and is) a Dog’s Head Street in Ipswich, but not, it appears, a Head Street.

GILLAM & Syrett, R.J

Itinerants listed by Heathcote as practising at London Road, Lowestoft, July 1855.

GLEICHEN, Ernest

Known only from 'The Norfolk News', 6th August 1863, which reports the court appearance in Lowestoft of 'M. Ernest Gleichen, photographer, and Sarah, his wife', charged with assaulting Samuel Butcher on 26th July. The case against Gleichen was dismissed, but his wife was fined 15 shillings.

GOBBETT, W J

Stradbroke, Wickham Market
KS1865

GODDEN, John H

54 High Street, Haverhill
KS1908, KS1912, KS1916

A carte mount refers to studios in Haverhill and Sawston.

GOODERHAM, F

Rope Walk, Ipswich
IDT1906/7

GOODERHAM, Grayson W

Castle Street, Eye
WS1874, KS1883, WS1885, KS1888

Debenham
KS1892, WS1892, KS1896

GOODERHAM, John

Felixstowe
WS1885

61 Rope Walk, Ipswich
JI1890, WS1892, SI1894

GOODWIN, H

42 Princes Street, Ipswich
KS1865

GOODWIN, Alderton &

20 Fore Street, Ipswich
KI1912

GOWING, Charles

East Nayland
KS1904, KS1908, KS1912

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