Directory of Early Photographers in Leicestershire C - D

CAIRNCROSS & Co

63 Jarrom Street, Leicester
WRLR 1914, KL 1916

CARLOW, A

Stanley Chambers, 30 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester
KL 1908

CLARE, Harry

20 Granby Street, Leicester
WRLR 1909

CLAYTON, Walter

4 London Road, Leicester
CG 1875, KL 1876, WL 1877, WRLR 1878, WRLE 1880, KL 1881, WRLR 1881

Portland House, London Road, Leicester
WRLE 1887/8, WRLR 1889/90, KL 1891, WRLE 1892

6 London Road, Leicester
BEL 1888, KL 1888

CG 1875, WL 1877 and WRLE 1880 add ‘and at Nottingham.’ WRLR 1878 specifies Greyhound Street, Nottingham. For Clayton’s advertisement in WRLE 1880, see studio note.

COCKSHAW, William Valentine

'Engraver, printer and photographic artist' of 18 Welford Road, Leicester, in 1858, and of 17 Marlborough Street, Leicester, at an earlier date. His bankruptcy was reported in The Leicester Journal (19.3.1858) and The London Gazette (29.4.1858 and 10.6.1858).

COLE, William

See entry for Spell & Sons.

COLES, James

4 Grafton Street, Leicester
LTP 1870

COLLINS, H

39 Hamilton Street, Leicester
BEL 1902

CONACHER, T

Kegworth
BEL 1902

See also Conacker, below

CONACKER, T

Whatton, Loughborough
WRLE 1899

See also Conacher, above.

COOKE, Herbert S, & Co

15 Rutland Street, Leicester
WRLR 1911, KL 1912

COOPER, C W

20 Beatrice Road, Newfoundpool, Leicester
BEL 1902

COOPER, Henry B

18 Abbey Park Road, Leicester
WRLR 1889/90, WRLE 1892, WRLR 1894

9 Belgrave Road, Leicester
KL 1895

13 Abbey Park Road, Leicester
WRLE 1899, WRLR 1903, KL 1904, WRLR 1906

Abbey Park Road, Leicester
BEL 1902

15 Abbey Park Road, Leicester
KL 1908, WRLR 1909, WRLR 1911, KL 1912, WRLR 1914, KL 1916

COOPER, Henry Bernard

Orton Road, Leicester
WRLR 1906

Listed as a separate entry from Henry B Cooper (above).

COOPER, Henry W

13 Abbey Park Road, Leicester
KL 1895, KL 1899

COPE, Henry C

Cope has been identified by Bob Hakewill as assistant to Alexander Smith (q.v.) in his Northampton Road studio in Market Harborough in 1891. The census shows him as aged 17, single and born in Barnsley, Yorkshire. He probably later had his own studio in Pontypridd, where Mari Alderman's online directory of Welsh professional photographers shows a Henry Cope in 1923 and 1926.

COPLAND, John

125 Martin Street, Leicester
KL 1888

CORKETT, Frederick

See entry for British Photographic Publishing Co, where he served as manager.

CORT, W S

8 Church Street, Market Harborough
WRLE 1899

According to Aucott, William Cort was a boot and shoe maker, who branched out into photography. His photographs of the town's new cattle market were published by the 'Market Harborough Advertiser' in 1903, and around 1905 he was running a camera-hire service.

COWPERTHWAIT, William

45 Overton Road, West Humberstone, Leicester
KL 1916

COX, A & Co

30½ Galltree Gate, Leicester
WRLE 1887/8

COX, H & Co

30 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester
BEL 1888, KL 1888

COX, John

104 Narborough Road, Leicester
KL 1916

COYNE, Stirling

22½ Galltree Gate, Leicester
WRLR 1889/90

DADFORD, John Lee

Itinerant photographer from Leicester, who appeared in court in Oakham, Rutland, in 1899, charged with taking money for photographs that he failed to supply. (Source: The Grantham Journal, 25th February, 1899)

DAVIS, S

Market Place, Loughborough
WND 1864

DAVIS & Durrad

18 Granby Street, Leicester
WL 1863

DAY, E A

4 Leicester Street, Melton Mowbray
KL 1912

DE FREYNE

Welford Place Chambers, Leicester
WRLR 1914

DELACROISE, Emile

117 London Road, Leicester
KL 1899, WRLE 1899, BEL 1902

DONN, Samuel

5 Applegate Street, Leicester
BUL 1867

DRAKE, John

57 Asylum Street, Leicester
WMD 1864, KL 1864

DRAYCOTT, John

Sileby, Loughborough
WRLR 1894

DRINKWATER, William Edwin

101 London Road, Leicester
WRLR 1906

DUDGEON, George

51 Hinckley Road, Leicester
KL 1904, WRLR 1906, KL 1908, WRLR 1909, WRLR 1911, KL 1912, WRLR 1914, KL 1916

DUDLEY, Horace H

22½ Granby Street, Leicester
WRLR 1903, KL 1904, WRLR 1906

DURRAD, Davis &

18 Granby Street, Leicester
WL 1863

DYKE, Colville

20 Granby Street, Leicester
KL 1895

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