Victorian Photographers Northumberland
 

I often come across collections of Victorian and Edwardian photographs - generally the Carte de Visite. Many have the names of the photographers on the reverse.

Before moving these on, from now on, I'll scan any that are for Northumberland - old Northumberland - Newcastle to Berwick - and record them here.

I'll do both sides, but the objective is to record the photographer. The identity of the subject(s), is, almost always, lost to time.


Please add your own if you have any!


added:
J.W. Barsted's Photographic Studio Amble #18, #20
J A Pringle of Amble, photographer to the Royal Family #19
J Robson Alnwick & Amble #58
J. Borthwick, Photographer, 61 Bondgate St. Alnwick #4
J. Candlish Ruddock, Bondgate, Alnwick. #12
Gowenlock Photographer Alnwick #27
J. Marshall & Son, Photographic Artists, Bondgate Without, Alnwick #9
J.C. Paterson, Photographer, Stationer & Music Seller, Alnwick #2
George Potter Photographic Artist, Lisburn Street, Alnwick #8
McIntyre Photographer Tweedmouth Berwick #22
J.P. Gibson, Hexham #5
Fred R. Lee Haltwhistle #33
T.H. McAllan Photo Artist Hexham #34
Gibson, Coldstream and Wooler #3
Ed Forster, 17 Portland Place, Pegswood #19
J. Bell Bedlington #32
T. Blacklock, Photographer & Artist, Vulcan Place, Bedlington #7
J.L. Clark, Central Hall Buildings, Waterloo Blyth #17
W.A. Hunter, Sussex Street Blyth. (Blyth and Tyne Photographic Institute) #16
John Charlton, Morpeth #13
J. Austin Photographer 13 Grainger St. West, Newcastle #11
A&G Taylor, Newcastle #19
C. Wilson, Photographic Artist, Marlbourough Street, late Neville Street Newcastle #6
W Laubach, Photographer, 10 New Bridge Street Newcastle #22
P.M. Laws 38 Blackett Street Newcastle upon Tyne. #24
Peter Higgins, Watson's Villa, Westgate Rd, Newcastle #31
E. Sawyer Photo Artist Barras Bridge Newcastle on Tyne #25
Richard Wood 16 New Bridge Street Newcastle #23

J.C. Paterson, Photographer, Stationer & Music Seller, Alnwick
 

J.C. Paterson, Photographer, Stationer & Music Seller, Alnwick


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg


J.C. Paterson, Photographer, Clayport Street, Alnwick

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...wick-photo.jpg


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...paper-1864.jpg

Gibson Coldstream and Wooler
 

Gibson. Coldstream and Wooler
[blank reverse, details on front]


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...eam-wooler.jpg

J. Borthwick, Photographer, 61 Bondgate St. Alnwick
 

J. Borthwick, Photographer, 61 Bondgate St. Alnwick
'Negatives kept, copies can always be had'


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg

J.P. Gibson Hexham
 

J.P. Gibson Hexham
'Duplicates may be had'


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg

C. Wilson, Photographic Artist, Marlbourough Street, late Neville Street Newcastle
 

C. Wilson, Photographic Artist, will remove form Neville Street, to new and first-class premises, No 8 Marlbourough Street, (opposite the Cattle Market), Newcastle upon Tyne. Observe the Address No. 8.


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-newcastle.jpg

T. Blacklock, Photographer & Artist, Vulcan Place, Bedlington, Fallowfield
 

T. Blacklock, Photographer & Artist, Vulcan Place, Bedlington, Fallowfield


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...bedlington.jpg

George Potter Photographic Artist Lisburn Street Alnwick
 

George Potter Photographic Artist Lisburn Street Alnwick
'Negatives kept, copies can always be had'



http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg

J. Marshall & Son, Photographic Artists, Bondgate Without, Alnwick
 

J. Marshall & Son, Photographic Artists, Bondgate Without, Alnwick



http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg

Great idea Mike, somebody might recognise someone!
Here's a few of mine - all from my Grandmother in Amble so must be related but only Mrs Otto (top left) identified.

J. Austin Photographer 13 Grainger Street Newcastle
 

Splendid Gordon. If you have the scan at high resolution I can always add the Northumberland ones to the the thread 'large size'.

Here's an odd one. the image itself embedded in the card feels like something solid - glass or metal. I thought subject was a boy but on closer inspection it must be a girl?

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-newcastle.jpg

J. Austin Photographer 13 Grainger St. West Newcastle & 75 Princes St Edinboro.
The American Gem Latest Novelty 9 for 7½ d


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...ian-tomboy.jpg




[edit. I think this is what you call a 'Tintype' where the photo was on a metal plate. These are allegedly magnetic, and this one is. It would also explain the rust]

J. Candlish Ruddock, Bondgate, Alnwick.
 

Another Alnwick photographer. Blank reverse.

J. Candlish Ruddock, Bondgate, Alnwick.


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...te-alnwick.jpg

Other direction now, one from Morpeth.

'Charlton Morpeth'

I thought the name on this was just a dirty smudge at first but it is in fact an ink stamp - 'Charlton Morpeth'. I assume an early card for this photographer.

Plenty in the Newspaper archives regarding Mr. John Charlton, Photographer and for many years teacher at the Bullers' Green Mission Sunday School.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...er-morpeth.jpg

Not a photograph but a magic lantern, with dealers plate John Watson 34 Grainger St Newcastle, according to Lucerna, the magic lantern resource, that dates it to mid 1890s. Currently residing in my fathers loft and has been for at least 60 years, pics attached

Nice item. I did have a box of magic lantern glass slides at one time. Landscape photos, coloured Christmas themed slides and other religious ones. Now sadly gone. All very collectable I think. Boy were they heavy when all together.

W.A. Hunter, Sussex Street Blyth. Blyth and Tyne Photographic Institute
 

Blyth and Tyne Photographic Institute, Sussex Street Blyth. W.A. Hunter, Photographer.
Cards copied and Enlarged. Mourning Cards and Frames. Copies of this card can always be had.

One of Gordon's cards:

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...reet-blyth.jpg

J.L. Clark, Central Hall Buildings, Waterloo Blyth
 

Only a solitary Blyth card in the collection I have:

J.L. Clark, Central Hall Buildings, Waterloo Blyth.

If we don't have 20-30 Blyth photographers I'll be surprised!



http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...rloo-blyth.jpg


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...rloo-blyth.jpg

J.W. Barsted's Photographic Studio Amble.
 

J.W. Barsted's Photographic Studio Amble. [1903]


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...pher-amble.jpg

A few more to add:
Ed Forster, 17 Portland Place, Pegswood. A photo of my dad's great aunt, circa 1915

My great grandparents and their children about 1899 A&G Taylor, Newcastle. With apologies for writing on the reverse!

Finally, the famous J A Pringle of Amble, photographer to the Royal Family. My grandfather's wedding photograph, 1899.

Very nice Janwhin.

Another Barsted Amble card in Gordon's collection. Nice art nouveau back.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-mary-tait.jpg

McIntyre Photographer Tweedmouth Berwick
 

McIntyre Photographer Tweedmouth Berwick

(Gordon's card)


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...th-berwick.jpg

W Laubach, Photographer, 10 New Bridge Street Newcastle
 

W Laubach, Photographer, 10 New Bridge Street Newcastle

[Gordon's card]


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-newcastle.jpg

Richard Wood 16 New Bridge Street Newcastle
 

Here's one from just a few doors along from your Laubach photographer:

From the Photographic Studio of Richard Wood 16 New Bridge Street Newcastle


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-newcastle.jpg

P.M. Laws 38 Blackett Street Newcastle upon Tyne.
 

Gallery of Photography P.M. Laws 38 Blackett Street Opposite Grey's Monument Newcastle upon Tyne.
P.M. Laws New Discovery in Photography. Portraiture by Gaslight. Sittings during the Winter.


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-newcastle.jpg

E. Sawyer Photo Artist Barras Bridge Newcastle on Tyne
 

Practical Portrait Painter & Photo Artist E. Sawyer Opposite St Thomas' Church Barras Bridge Newcastle on Tyne

[Gordon's]

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...-upon-tyne.jpg

That Group photo is an odd one. Could be a post mortem photo for the youngest child. Very strange position he is in. Victorians were masters of the art of posing the dead. We will never know.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...photograph.jpg


Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography (BBC)

Gowenlock Photographer Alnwick
 

Here's a new one, nearly overlooked in a pile of various photos. Gowenlock Alnwick. Totally blank reverse, small impressed name to front.
Crudely cut down to fit a photo frame by someone.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...ographer-2.jpg

Henry Scott Gowenlock, Photographer, aged 29 and his assistant, Florence Lister, aged 26, are both lodging in Alnwick on census night 1911. They are in the premises of Fanny Thompson, widow, aged 50, at 8 Bondgate Within.


[edit- looking at the death index Gowenlock died in the same quarter as the 1911 census!]


[edit 2. He's a draper's assistant in 1901. His parents ran the Globe Inn in Alnwick at this time.]

Rather an unusual surname, my mother was "in service" in the late 1920's to a Mrs Gowenlock who had Castlegate House in Warkworth. That is the house at the top of Castle Street where you go towards the castle. She took in boarders and at the time my mother was there Major Vernon Merivale was a resident, he was involved at Hauxley Colliery which was then in it's infancy.

There are a few WW1 medal index cards for Northumberland Fusilier Gowenlocks, but none on the Absent voter lists. Possibly Alnwick or Warkworth men discharged before early 1918? Some of those lost local combatants no one knows about.

Peter Higgins, Watson's Villa, Westgate Rd, Newcastle
 

Gordon's Lynemouth School card by
Peter Higgins, Watson's Villa, Westgate Rd, Newcastle



http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...h-school-1.jpg


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...h-school-2.jpg

J. Bell Photographer Bedlington
 

This one I had two identical copies of. Sold one on ebay; bought by someone in France?

Blank reverse, front marked J. Bell .... Bedlington
A leek show, old bottle aficionados might notice the two tone stone ginger beers as vases on the table.


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...humberland.jpg

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...mberland-2.jpg

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...mberland-3.jpg

Fred. R. Lee Haltwhistle Photographer
 

Fred. R. Lee Haltwhistle
(blank reverse)



http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...otographer.jpg

T.H. McAllan Photo Artist Hexham
 

T.H. McAllan Photo Artist Hexham.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/cart...her-hexham.jpg



T.H. McAllan Photo Artist Hexham.

This or any other carte enlarged to life or intermediate size, and finished in oil, water colours, or crayons.

Portraits of deceased friends carefully copied. Views taken in any part of the country. Pianofortes for sale or hire.

Pianos. Music. Music Books. Music Stools. Portfolios. Bibles. Prayer Books. Church Services. Waiting cases. Picture frames. Envelopes. Note paper. Sachets. Purses. Pocket books. Albums & general stationary.

Elizabeth Smailes nee`Dodds Leach Hume, drowned in River Coquet, Amble harbour - mid-summer 1900.

Shields Daily Gazette 09 August 1900
Elizabeth Smailes

She was not the only female to drown in the harbour that year:


Newcastle Courant 27 October 1900,
Annabell Margaret Ashworth of 40 Church Street.

Thanks for this Mike, I couldn't find anything.

Any idea how deep the water is at the weir opposite the Stanners?
.

It is tidal there, from walkable across the old weir (knee deep) to two to three feet at a high tide. Obviously any significant rain and it can be deep, fast flowing and lethal

Thanks holydog. I wonder if she was buried in the churchyard at Stanners where they lived...(hint...hint)