This is my home territory and, if you get this way, you are welcome to come in for a coffee and trawl thru 25,000 stereoviews.
Keystone 1920s silver gelatin
view. 'A dairy farm, England'. Full text on back. No link to East Anglia
but is unlikely to be anywhere else.
Condition 9/10.
Order #11320.
Price $10.
Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk
West Suffolk Photographic Establishment.
W. Spranton, 16 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds. 'Norman Tower, Bury
St Edmunds'. Sprantons were professional photographers in Bury from the
1860s to 1940. The Spranton-Jarman collection of 4,000 glass negatives
is held by the Suffolk Records Office.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11321.
Price $22.
Untitled. This is Bury St Edmunds
Abbey Gate.
Condition 8.
Order #11322.
Price $18.
George Downes. Published by
the Photographic Institution, 168 New Bond Street, London. '10. St Mary's
Church, Bury St Edmunds, interior looking east'. Downes was an important
photographer who worked with Howlett on the 'Great Eastern' series and
later with Cundall. His views are rare.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11323.
Price $22.
Ipswich and area
Handwritten 'Freston Tower,
near Ipswich'. Click
for an interesting website. 1850s salt print.
Condition. Almost impossible
to grade as salt prints usually are. No damage.
Order #11325.
Price $15.
A nice East Anglian view. White
label on back 'Ancient House, Ipswich. Date 1567. Occupant J. Haddock.
Bookseller, Ipswich. Public Library, instituted 1791.' A fine example of
pargetting.
Condition 9.
Order #11326.
Price $20.
Another view of the same building.
Similar label.
Condition 7/8 (milky).
Order #11327.
Price $15.
Handwritten 'Half-timbered
house, Butter Market, Ipswich'.
Condition 8.
Order #11328.
Price $15.
The next group are all by Emeny and Son of Walton-cum-Felixstowe near Ipswich. While the first group are of that area, the second group are obviously not even of England. As most are untitled I have kept them together as a example of the work of one photographer. The Emeny family had a photographic business for many years in Walton and are still remembered by the older generation. I have a Frith photograph of Felixstowe beach from 1899 that shows an Emeny photo studio on the beach.
Emeny blindstamp. Dated 1906.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11333.
Price $12.
Emeny blindstamp. Dated 1905.
Condition 8.
Order #11334.
Price $8.
Emeny blindstamp. Dated 1906.
Condition 8.
Order #11335.
Price $12.
Emeny blindstamp. 'Bawdesey
1905'. Bawdsey Manor, on the Suffolk coast, has always been an isolated
and mysterious place much used by the Security Services. During WWII a
10-mile exclusion zone was placed around it and Watson-Watt proceeded to
invent Radar there.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11336.
Price $15.
From here all the Emeny views have the following gold printed back and gilt edges, making them the most luxurious stereoviews I have ever seen. They don't scan well but are superb.
Emeny. Untitled. Definately
Suffolk.
Condition 8.
Order #11337.
Price $10.
Foreign Emney views from here. All untitled, condition 8 and priced at $6 each.
Order #11338.
Order #11339.
Order #11340.
Order #11341.
Order #11342.
Order #11343.
Order #11344.
Lowestoft and area
This is the Royal Hotel on
the seafront at Lowestoft. A very distinctive building, useful for stereo
identification of views of Lowestoft harbour. Pulled down in the 1970s
to make way for a shed/greenhouse which the local council saw fit to erect.
The Rolling Stones once played here as the supporting band! The sandstone
statue of Neptune can still be seen further along the front - now very
much weathered by 150 years of North Sea salt winds. If you visit please
bring thick coat and flask of hot soup.
Condition. Light foxing.
Order #11346.
Price $15.
A fine untitled 1850s view
of the Royal Hotel Lowestoft from the Pier.
Condition. Slight foxing and
stains.
Order #11347.
Price $18.
An 1860s view from the same
neg. as the one above.
Condition 8.
Order #11348.
Price $22.
Untitled. Lowestoft, down the
pier from the seaward end. St John's Church in the distance. Neptune busy
wrestling on the left.
Condition 8.
Order #11349.
Price $22.
An untitled Edwardian amateur
view of Lowestoft Pier looking seaward.
Condition 7.
Order #11351.
Price $12.
Fryer & Co's Stereoscopic
Views. This is Lowestoft South Beach just south of the pier. Please click
HERE
for a webcam view of the same location taken in the past few minutes.
Condition 8.
Order #11354.
Price $12.
Untitled 1850s view across
Lowestoft Harbour, identified by the Royal Hotel in the distance.
Condition 8 (some slight dents
on left image).
Order #11356.
Price $22.
Untitled view across Lowestoft
harbour - the Royal Hotel in the distance.
Condition 7/8.
Order #11357.
Price $18.
A slightly lighter version
of the previous view.
Condition 7/8.
Order #11359.
Price $15.
J. Saunders, Kirkley, blindstamp.
Untitled Lowestoft seafront view with Neptune still wrestling. See below
for other views by this photographer.
Condition. Obviously very
dark but that is how it was produced. Much more viewable than scan but
some marks in sky.
Order #11360.
Price $12.
I think this might be 'Sparrows
Nest' on the outskirts of Lowestoft.
Condition 5 (milky and marks).
Order #11363.
Price $8.
Also possibly Sparrow Nest
on this Edwardian view.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11364.
Price $10.
The next are a run of views of the Lowestoft area, some with the blindstamp 'J. Saunders, Photographer, Kirkley'. I am researching these and the apparently previously unknown photographer.
Untitled. Thanks to Pretoria
who has identified this as St Margaret's Church in Hollingsworth Road. Still there
and looks exactly the same.
Condition. Obvious spots on
r/h image.
Order #11366.
Price $12.
J. Saunders, Kirkley, blindstamp.
Untitled view somewhere near Lowestoft.
Condition 7/8 (slight foxing
in sky).
Order #11367.
Price $10.
Handwritten 'Kirkley Church'.
Just outside Lowestoft. Late view.
Condition 7/8.
Order #11368.
Price $8.
J. Saunders, Kirkley, blindstamp.
This is Somerleyton Hall near Lowestoft. Lord Somerleyton was as common
as the rest of us but was raised to the peerage in the nineteenth century
for making a fortune out of zip fasteners or Bott's Digestive Sauce or
some such product. Went on to build a village around his stately pile and
generally throw his weight about as do his descendants by all accounts.
Condition 6.
Order #11369.
Price $12.
Untitled view of Somerleyton
Hall. Designed in the Italianate style by its first owner Sir Samuel Morton
Peto. Peto was a flamboyant engineer who built much of the railway system
and ports in East Anglia. He once lived near Felixstowe and, the Ipswich
to Felixstowe railway passing through his lands, he made a covenent that
all passenger trains should stop at a station which he built on his property
in case he wanted to travel. The railway only wriggled out of that in the
1930s. Peto also spread his talents far and wide, building among other
things, the Victoria Bridge in Montreal.
Condition. Mount slightly
split in center with slight damage to image. Some foxing in sky.
Order #11370.
Price $8.
Another untitled Somerleyton
view.
Condition. Slight white spotting.
Order #11371.
Price $12.
Another of Somerleyton Hall.
Doesn't look like something the Nouveaux Riches would construct!
Condition 8.
Order #11372.
Price $12.
And Somerleyton Hall again.
Condition 7/8.
Order #11373.
Price $12.
Great Yarmouth and area
'Caister Castle, Great Yarmouth'.
Early view.
Condition 9.
Order #11375.
Price $22.
'Caister Castle, inner view,
looking N.W., 1867'. This is #131 in Nall's Series which is a beautifully
produced series of views. Nall was, unfortunately, only the Great Yarmouth-based
publisher and there is no photographer's attribution. The quality is Francis
Bedford but I don't think he worked in this area. They are definately NOT
Poulton as they are very superior to his work. William England did a series
at Sandringham and he is a candidate for these. The quality is truly exceptional.
Condition 8.
Order #11377.
Price $25.
Nall's Series #12 (see above).
'The Friars'Tower Great Yarmouth, as seen from outside the walls'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11378.
Price $25.
Great Yarmouth market place.
Condition. Very clear, slight
purple ink mark at bottom of left image and slight paper deposit on the
back.
Order #11379.
Price $22.
Yellow label Nall's Series,
182 King St (see above) '33. Victoria Esplanade and Wellington Pier, Great
Yarmouth'.
Condition 7/8 (light surface
scratches).
Order #11380.
Price $18.
Handwritten 'Yarmouth ????'. Thanks again
to Pretoria who states that this is on the corner (or very near) Regent Road by the main,
new cinema on the seafront in Great Yarmouth.
Condition 9.
Order #11381.
Price $18.
Yellow label Nall's Series,
182 King St (see above) '36. Nelson Column, Great Yarmouth'. Nelson was
a Norfolk man and this column was erected in his honour before the one
in Trafagar Square. Suffered years of neglect but has recently been fully
restored to its original glory. Click HERE
for interesting information.
Condition 8 (light surface
scratches).
Order #11382.
Price $22.
Fortescue Mann, Stereoscopic
Views of Yarmouth & Neighbourhood. 'No 1. Drawbridge over the Yare'.
This is a nice collectible series of 60 views and there is a full list
of the 60 titles on the back of this view.
Condition. Right image moderately
faded and small stain on left image.
Order #11383.
Price $12.
'St Nicholas Ch., Great Yarmouth'.
Early view dated Oct. 1858.
Condition 8.
Order #11384.
Price $12.
Horatio Nelson King (HNK).
'St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, nave looking E.'. This is the largest parish
church in England.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11385.
Price $10.
Handwritten 'Yarmouth'. I am
quite prepared for someone to email and redirect this view to Yarmouth
Isle of Wight. Until such time it will sit here.
Condition 8 (image corner
slightly lifting).
Order #11387.
Price $12.
Poulton's English Scenery 'Yarmouth.
Wellington Pier'.
Condition 7.
Order #11390.
Price $12.
Poulton's English Scenery 'Great
Yarmouth. View in the Harbour'. Fascinating view.
Condition. Overall spotting.
Order #11391.
Price $12.
Yellow label Nall's Series,
182 King St (see above) '41. Old Jetty, Great Yarmouth'.
Condition 7.
Order #11392.
Price $12.
White label '208. View from
the beach. Yarmouth. Instantaneous'.
Condition. Much as produced
I think. Early view of this type.
Order #11393.
Price $15.
Fortescue Mann, Stereoscopic
Views of Yarmouth & Neighbourhood. 'Fritton Decoy'. A full list of
60 titles on the back but this doesn't seem to be one of them.
Condition 8.
Order #11395.
Price $12.
Handwritten 'Fritton'.
Condition 9.
Order #11396.
Price $8.
Handwritten 'Fritton'.
Condition 9.
Order #11397.
Price $12.
Handwritten 'Fritton'.
Condition 9.
Order #11398.
Price $12.
Handwritten 'Fritton'.
Condition 9.
Order #11399.
Price $10.
Untitled but this is obviously
another Fritton view.
Condition 9.
Order #11400.
Price $12.
Handwritten 'Fritton'.
Condition 9.
Order #11401.
Price $12.
Norwich
Norwich was the second city of England for centuries. For views of Norwich Cathedral please click here.
A slightly later (1870s) view
of Norwich Castle. Pens in the foreground was the cattle market.
Condition 8.
Order #11403.
Price $15.
A very clear early 20th century
untitled view of Pulls Ferry, Norwich.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11404.
Price $12.
Fine Art Photographers' Publishing
Co. 'The Organ, Norwich Cathedral'.
Condition 9.
Order #11405.
Price $12.
Waveney Valley and Broads
The next few are nice amateur views on the Norfolk Broads which, for the information our colonial cousins, are water-filled peat diggings from around 1200 years ago - not ladies of a similar age.
W.T. Fisher's Series of Stereoscopic
Views of Beccles. No 7. Church and Market Place from King's Head'. If you
want to learn about this area read the delightful books by Adrian Bell
(journalist Martin Bell's father) who used to sit in the King's Head and
watch the world go by. I've also spent many happy hours in there in my
youth watching the local talent doing likewise. Walter T. Fisher hailed
from Filey in Yorkshire and obviously paid for his holidays in Suffolk
by stereographing. He is known to have made a further series of Great Yarmouth,
but this is the only view by him that I have seen.
Condition 8.
Order #11406.
Price $22.
Untitled.
Condition. A nasty surface
scratch on left image.
Order #11407.
Price $6.
Untitled.
Condition 8.
Order #11408.
Price $12.
Unreadable title.
Condition 8.
Order #11409.
Price $10.
Untitled.
Condition 9.
Order #11410.
Price $12.
Cleer Alger blindstamp 'Framlingham'.
Alger was a land surveyor and my local photographer. Based in Diss in Norfolk,
he stereographed his way up and down the Waveney Valley. He and his son
photographed the area from the 1860s to the late 1880s when Alger Senior
died. Alger Junior carried on until 1903 when he managed to get himself
killed in a motoring accident which must have taken a deal of ingenuity
and persistence. 600 of his glass negs are in the Suffolk Records Office.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11411.
Price $22.
North Norfolk
Keystone 'Blickling Hall, Norfolk'.
Birthplace of Anne Boleyn in 1507, looks as good now as always (I drove
past it yesterday to check for you!). Descriptive text on back. Click
here
for the National Trust website for this Jacobean jewel.
Condition 10.
Order #11412.
Price $15.
The next six views of Cromer are all dated 'circa 1850'. If only! They are all late 1850s and look dangerously like salt prints.
Handwritten 'Cromer Norfolk'.
Condition 7.
Order #11413.
Price $15.
Handwritten 'Cromer Norfolk'.
Condition. Fading and light
marks.
Order #11414.
Price $12.
Handwritten 'Cromer Norfolk'.
Condition 8.
Order #11415.
Price $22.
Handwritten 'Cromer Norfolk'.
Condition 7.
Order #11416.
Price $15.
Handwritten 'Cromer Norfolk'.
Condition. Light foxing in
sky. Edge of mount a bit tattered.
Order #11417.
Price $15.
Handwritten 'Cromer Norfolk'.
Condition 8.
Order #11418.
Price $25.
Handwritten 'Cromer Church'.
Built high so that mariners could navigate into port by sighting it.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11419.
Price $18.
Four views now of Hunstanton - Very scarce area for stereoviews.
Handwritten 'Hunstanton. Facing
the sea'.
Condition. Overall light spotting.
Order #11421.
Price $15.
Handwritten 'Hunstanton, July
25th 1870'. Family on the beach.
Condition. Surface marks on
right image.
Order #11422.
Price $12.
Handwritten 'Hunstanton, July
25th 1870. Lighthouse'.
Condition. Views well, right
image much clearer than left but views out.
Order #11423.
Price $15.
Handwritten 'Peterbro' House,
Hunstanton (signature) Architect, J. Rippon, Builder. 1870'.Condition 7.
Order #11424.
Price $15.
Bullock (Kings) Lynn. 'Sandringham.
The Church, exterior'. Dated December 1873 although it obviously isn't
as this is midsummer.
Condition 8 (slight loss on
back).
Order #11425.
Price $18.
Bullock (Kings) Lynn. 'Sandringham.
The Hall, northwest view'. Dated December 1873 - once again midsummer.
Condition 8 (slight loss on
back).
Order #11426.
Price $18.
The
final views are from the highly collected Views of Sandringham series by
William England, published by the London Stereoscopic Company in the 1860s.
Tex Treadwell, in his monograph on the work of England, seems to have missed
this little series completely - possibly because there is no reference
to William England on the views. I believe there are probably 15 views
in the series, and a list will be issued soon which will be almost complete.
In the meantime, I would be grateful for any further titles you may have.
George Eastman House holds view #4 - 'Ornamental Water, from Pleasure
Grounds'. Many of the views were issued without numbering but they all
seem to match with numbered views. Sandringham is in north Norfolk and
the Royal Family traditionally spend Christmas there.
Not numbered. 'The Prince and
Princess. The Lawn'.
Condition 8 (marks in the
water area are reflections of the building).
Order #11427.
Price $35.
Not numbered. 'The Prince'.
Retailer - J.W. Queen, Opticians, Phildelphia.
Condition 8 7.
Order #11428.
Price $25.
Not numbered. 'The Princess'.
Written on back 'Princess Alexandra, 1863 (neg 1862).
Condition. Overall processing
spots.
Order #11429.
Price $22.
Not numbered but is No 1 of
the series. 'The Prince and Princess'.
Condition 8.
Order #11430.
Price $35.
'No 1. The Prince and Princess'.
Condition. Very obvious red
marks on right image.
Order #11431.
Price $5.
'No 2. Sandringham Hall. East
View'.
Condition 7/8.
Order #11432.
Price $35.
'No 3. Sandringham Hall. West
View'.
Condition 7/8.
Order #11433.
Price $30.
'No 4. Ornamental Water, from
Pleasure Grounds'.
Condition 8.
Order #11434.
Price $25.
'No 5. The Terrace Walk'.
Condition 8/9 (very slightly
light).
Order #11435.
Price $35.
Unnumbered but this is No 5.
'The Terrace Walk'. Variant on the previous view.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11436.
Price $30.
'No 7. Interior - The Drawing
Room'.
Condition 8.
Order #11437.
Price $35.
'No 8. The Hall. Trophies of
the Chase, by H.R.H.'.
Condition 9.
Order #11438.
Price $25.
'No 9. The Prince and Princess,
&c. Terrace Steps'.
Condition 8.
Order #11439.
Price $35.
'No 10. Interior, Conservatory'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11440.
Price $22.
'No 11. Avenue leading to the
Church'.
Condition 8.
Order #11441.
Price $35.
Not numbered but this is a
variant No 11. 'Avenue leading to the Church'.
Condition 8.
Order #11442.
Price $35.
'No 12. View in the Park'.
Condition 8.
Order #11443.
Price $30.
'No 13. Sandringham Church'.
Condition 8.
Order #11444.
Price $35.
'No 14. Interior, Sandringham
Church'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #11445.
Price $30.
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