Directories of Early Photographers - Useful Links For Other Counties

UK Photo History Generally

Geoff Caulton's Photo Detective site:
www.photodetective.co.uk

Ron Cosens site
www.cartedevisite.co.uk

Rosemary and Stan Rodcliffe's site
www.earlyphotographers.org.uk/databases.html

Lynn's Waffles
https://lynnswaffles.com/victorian-photographers-info-2/

Photographic Exhibitions in Britain 1839-1865
http://peib.dmu.ac.uk/index.php

David Gobbitt's study of photographers in Ipswich: Sawyer, Smith and White
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8895 and
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/localities.britisles.england.sfk.general/8895.1

Directories of early photographers give rather patchy coverage of Great Britain, and printed directories aren’t always easy to obtain. But a number of directories are now online and more will doubtless follow. The links below are to free online directories (some of which are more detailed than others). 

 England (mainland)

Brighton & Hove

Bristol

Cambridgeshire

Chester & North-East Wales

Derbyshire

Leeds and Bradford

London   

Staffordshire  

Sussex       

Birmingham and Warwickshire

 

Wales

Chester & North-East Wales 

Glamorgan

 

Scotland

Ayrshire   

Edinburgh

Glasgow  

Islands   

Jersey

Isle of Man  

Isle of Wight 

Other Photo History Links

Marcel Safier's website

David Spencer's website: PhotoSeed

Elizabeth Wright's website: History of Clarendon Park

Tony Copsey's website: Suffolk Painters

John Frearson's website: The Speight family of photographers

Paul Godfrey's websites: Great Yarmouth - a Seaside Photographer, and Ilford Photo-finishing Equipment

John Benjafield's website: Early Norfolk Photographs 1840-1860

 

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