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Old 18-06-2016, 11:46 AM
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Default McIntyre Photographer Tweedmouth Berwick

McIntyre Photographer Tweedmouth Berwick

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Old 18-06-2016, 12:01 PM
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Default W Laubach, Photographer, 10 New Bridge Street Newcastle

W Laubach, Photographer, 10 New Bridge Street Newcastle

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Old 18-06-2016, 12:25 PM
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Default 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


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Default 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.


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Default 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

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Old 22-06-2016, 08:39 AM
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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.




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




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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.]
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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.
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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.
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Default Peter Higgins, Watson's Villa, Westgate Rd, Newcastle

Gordon's Lynemouth School card by
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Default 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.







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Default Fred. R. Lee Haltwhistle Photographer

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Default T.H. McAllan Photo Artist Hexham

T.H. McAllan Photo Artist Hexham.





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.
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W Laubach, Photographer, 10 New Bridge Street Newcastle

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

Shields Daily Gazette 09 August 1900
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Old 17-12-2016, 08:11 PM
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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.
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Thanks for this Mike, I couldn't find anything.

Any idea how deep the water is at the weir opposite the Stanners?
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Thanks for this Mike, I couldn't find anything.

Any idea how deep the water is at the weir opposite the Stanners?
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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
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Thanks holydog. I wonder if she was buried in the churchyard at Stanners where they lived...(hint...hint)
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