Directory of Early Photographers in Northamptonshire, A - B

Anonymous

The second photographer to run a studio in Northamptonshire is referred to by Heathcote, but he has not been identified by name. It is known that he acquired the daguerreotype licence relinquished by Joseph Whitlock (q.v.) at the end of 1845, and that he set up business in 1846 in Mercers’ Row, Northampton, using the premises that had formerly been occupied by Whitlock.

ARLIDGE, Albert

18 West Street, Lower Weedon, Weedon
KN 1906

ARLIDGE, C W

Lower Weedon, Weedon
KN 1914, KN 1920

ARLIDGE, Samuel

Weedon Beck
WN 1874

Mount Pleasant, Northampton
KN 1877

BAILEY, H

Peterborough
PD 1892

Kingscliffe
TC 1905/6

TC 1905/6 adds ‘artistic photographer’.

BAILEY, John, jun.

West Street, Kingscliffe, Wansford
KN 1874

BAILEY, John & Henry

West Street, Kingscliffe
WRN 1884

BAILEY, Thomas H

West Street, Kingscliffe, Wansford
KN 1885, KN 1890, KN 1894, KN 1903, KN 1906

See also Thomas W Bailey, below.

BAILEY, Thomas W

West Street, Kingscliffe, Wansford
KN 1898

The ‘W’ initial looks as if it could be a mistake. See Thomas H Bailey, above.

BAINES, William

Brackley
KN 1894

Banbury Road, Brackley
KN 1898, KN 1903

BALL & Co

Bridge Street, Peterborough
KN 1890, KN 1894, KN 1898

13 Narrow Street, Peterborough
PD 1892, COP 1894, CAP 1896, COP 1898, CAP 1901, CAP 1907

13 Narrow Bridge Street, Peterborough
KN 1903, KN 1906

See also William Ball, below.

BALL, William

Broad Bridge Street, Peterborough
KN 1869, WN 1874

Narrow Street, Peterborough
CLP 1876

13 Narrow Bridge Street, Peterborough
HN 1876, KN 1877

Narrow Bridge Street, Peterborough
KN 1885

KN 1885 has ‘W Ball & Co’. So Ball & Co (above) may also refer to William Ball. But a change of family member at the head of the business is another possibility.

BALL & Coates

Queen Street, Peterborough
KN 1910, CAP 1912

5 Cowgate, Peterborough
TC 1918

BAMFORD, Harry

45 Montague Street, Kettering
TC 1918

BATES & Co

31 Sheep Street, Northampton
SN 1893

BATES, Arthur

1a Lower Hester Street, Northampton
SN 1889, KN 1890

BEALE, Anthony & Co

George Row, Northampton
SN 1893

See also ‘Beales’, below.

BEALES, Anthony & Co

County Studio, George Row, Northampton
LN 1893/4

See also ‘Beale’, above.

BEALES, Walter

Park Road, Peterborough
WRN 1884, KN 1885

BEAN, John

6 Mercers’ Row, Northampton
KN 1920

BEAN, Wilkinson &

5 Horse Market, Northampton
KM 1910

BEECH, H

Millfield, Peterborough
SP 1862, KN 1864

BERRY, John

High Street, Daventry
WN 1874

BIDEN, John

41 St Giles’ Street, Northampton
WN 1874

BIJOU Photo Company

45 Montague Street, Kettering
KN 1906, KN 1910, TC 1910/11, KN 1914

Called the Bijou Art Company in TC 1911/12.

BILSON, Arthur

21 Horse Market, Northampton
SN 1889

In WNN 1896 an Arthur Bilson is listed as ‘photographic apparatus maker’ at 62a Mare Fair, Northampton.

BLACKMAN, Mrs J

Westgate, Peterborough
KN 1864

BLACKMAN, Thomas

14 Westgate, Peterborough
WN 1874, HN 1876

Long Causeway, Peterborough
CLP 1876

St John’s Street, Peterborough
KN 1877, WRN 1884

Exchange Street, Peterborough
PD 1892

See also the Blackman entries below.

BLACKMAN, Thomas & Co

Exchange Street, Peterborough
COP 1894, CAP 1896, KN 1898, KN 1903

5 Exchange Street, Peterborough
COP 1898

See also Thomas Blackman & Son, below.

BLACKMAN, Thomas & Son

Exchange Street, Peterborough
KN 1890, KN 1894

Long Causeway, Peterborough
KN 1890, KN 1894

See also Thomas Blackman & Co, above.

BLACKMAN, T J & W

6 Exchange Street, Peterborough
CAP 1901

BLACKWELL, Robert

Brackley
KN 1864, KN 1869, KN 1877, KN 1885

High Street, Brackley
HN 1876, WRN 1884

BONE, Miss May

Photographic Arcade, 5 Market Street, Peterborough
TC 1918

Westgate Studio, 62 Westgate, Peterborough
TC 1918

Market Place, Peterborough
KN 1920

TC 1918 adds ‘also at Hunstanton’. May Bone’s Hunstanton and Fakenham studios are listed in the Norfolk studio directory.

BOUGHTON, W & Sons

Cathedral Studio, Market Place, Peterborough
COP 1898

This appears to be a short-lived outpost of Walter Boughton’s empire, which was founded in Thetford, Norfolk, in the 1880s. Other businesses in the Boughton chain can be found in the Norfolk and Suffolk studio directories.

BRIGHTWELL, Leonard

15 High Street, Wellingborough
KN 1890, KN 1894, KN 1898

BROCK, Benjamin George

237 Wellingborough Road, Northampton
KN 1903, TC 1905/6, KN 1906, LN 1906, LN 1907

BROWN, James

6 Mercer’s Row, Northampton
KN 1885

BROWN & Draycott

11 Gold Street, Northampton
KN 1885

BUCKLEY, William

147 Bridge Street, Northampton
WNN 1896

BULL, John

City Road, Peterborough
KN 1864, KN1869, WN 1874, HN 1876, CLP 1876, KN 1877, WRN 1884, KN 1885, KN 1890, PD 1892

4 City Road, Peterborough
KN 1894, KN 1898

41 City Road, Peterborough
COP 1894, CAP 1896, COP 1898, CAP 1901, KN 1903

CAP 1896 adds ‘& Son’.

BURROWS, Thompson

Buckwell Street, Desborough, Market Harborough
KN 1914

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