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The Midlands and East Anglia
Norfolk and Suffolk

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.

Small yellow label 'The Ancient House, Ipswich. Date 1567. J. Haddock, Bookseller, Ancient House Ipswich, Occupier'. Now occupied by Lakeland "The Home of Creative Kitchenware!" (my exclamation mark).
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.

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.

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. Thanks to Colin who has identified this as the ruined part of Corton church 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.

Great Yarmouth and area

'Caister Castle, Great Yarmouth'. Early view.
Condition 9.
Order #11375.
Price $22.

'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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.