Cambridgeshire Photographers

Name: BANNOLD PHOTOGRAPHY
Address: South Arbury, Long Drove, Waterbeach
Working Dates: c. 2000
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information:
References: Cambridge Yellow Pages 2000

Name: BANYARD, Floss Marion. b: Cambridge Cambridgeshire 1902 d: 1971
Address: 20 Sedgwick Street Cambridge
Working dates: 1921
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information: In the 1921 census Floss was living with her sister, a lodging house keeper, at 20 Sedgwick Street Cambridge Floss was a photographer's assistant working for Hillls and Saunders, Kings Parade Cambridge. In 1925 Floss married William Cutbush, ten years her senior, who. by 1939 was a stationmaster in Kent. Floss was not working in 1939, but her unpaid domestic duties included caring for her incapacitated elderly mother-in-law and 12 year old daughter.
References: 1921 Census

Name: BARBER, William Charles b: 1859 Halesworth, Suffolk d:1929
Address: Victoria Street, Littleport.
Working Dates: c. 1914 -1920s
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information: William was a printer and also a publisher of real photo postcards. William and his family were in Clerkenwell London when their three eldest children were born. By 1898 the family (William, wife Bessie, four daughters and a son) were in Littleport. In the 1911 census William is shown as a letterpress printer and an employer. Not currently known whose images were used on William's postcards.
References: William is included in a "Directory of Cambridgeshire Postcard Publishers/photographers noted before 1914" by Michael Rouse in "Cambridge in Early Postcards", Oleander Press 1978. 1916 Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire lists W.C.Barber, Victoria Street Littleport, as a printer.

Name: BARKER, John H. b. d.
Address: Cambridge
Working Dates: c. 1893-1901 in Cambridge
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information: In 1986 the Cambridgeshire Collection was allowed to copy a series of photographs, many taken in Cambridge between 1893 and 1898, mainly of street works and electricity generating equipment related to the Cambridge Electric Supply Co. The album was owned by a reader from Bedford. The series of 3 x 4in albumen prints in the album were of a good professional standard in terms of composition and exposure. The album had been put together by John H.Barker, who presumably was also the photographer concerned. The album was headed "John H Barker, Miller Prize, 1890-91 part 2". The album included a certificate to Barker from the Institute of Civil Engineers, congratulating him on the 50th anniversary of his election to that body on 6 December 1892 (certificate dated 6 Dec 1942). Thankfully 35mm copy negatives of all the photographs in the album are now preserved in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Sadly it would appear that this album has since changed hands and has been split and individual prints have been separated and sold on Ebay. Four examples from the author's collection are below. The Cambridge Daily News Fri 22 Feb 1901 p3 reported on a dinner for employees of the Cambridge Electric Supply Co on the occasion of the Company's secretary and engineer, John H Barker AMICE, MIEE, leaving Cambridge to take up an appointment at the Hon C.A.Parsons' Heaton Engineering Works in Newcastle upon Tyne.
References: Cambridgeshire Collection P Ele J9 30335-87

Great St Mary's Cambridge. CESCo's works Aug 1898, by John H Barker

Interior shot of plant, Cambridge Electric Supply co, 1890s, by John H Barker

Cambridge Electric Supply Co equipping St Mary's substation Sept 1898, by John H Barker

Cambridge Electric Supply Co dismantling Guildhall Sub Station, Sept 1898, by John H Barker

Name: BARRETT, Miss Eleanor Rose b: 1880 d: 1917
Address: Victoria Street, Cambridge
Working Dates: c.1911-16
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information: In the 1911 census Eleanor was living with her brother and his family at 40 Clarendon Street, Cambridge. Her brother was Thomas Hayer Barratt, china and glass dealer. Eleanor was described in 1911 as a professional photographer.
References: Mike Petty, The Photographers, (a handlist of local photographers), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Collection, 1992
Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1916

Name: BARRINGTON-BROWN, Antony Charles, MBE, MA, FRPS b:1927 Salisbury d:2012
Address: 1a Park Street, Cambridge
Working Dates: 1951-58
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information: Anthony Barrington Brown was the grandson of Charles Barrington-Brown, geologist and explorer. After military service Antony read chemistry at Cambridge and during his time at University worked as a photographer and picture editor for the student newspaper, Varsity. Antony, described as a natural scientist and freelance photo-journalist, then with a photographic business in Cambridge, took part in the 1956 Oxford and Cambridge Far-Eastern Expedition. He was the photographer to the expedition, travelling 30,000 miles by Land Rover through 21 countries. Antony specialised in portraiture and also acted as a stringer for national newspapers. His most famous image, taken in 1953, is of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick with their DNA double-helix model. In 1958 Antony changed career direction, moving into furniture design and manufacture. Antony was awarded the MBE in 2003 for services to heritage and to the community in Codford, Wiltshire. The National Portrait Gallery held an exhibition of Cambridge Portraits by Barrington-Brown in 2012, after his death in a car crash. The NPG has 228 of Barrington-Brown's portraits from the period 1951-1958. Below are two examples of Antony's day to day work, 6 in x 4 in graduation portraits, dated June 1952, with "AC Barrington-Brown" backstamp on the reverse. These were taken outside the Old Schools building after a graduation ceremony in the Senate House on 18 June 1952, the subjects are unknown (author's collection). The Cambridgeshire Collection holds two boxes of negatives and contact prints by Barrington-Brown showing Cambridge in the 1950s. The images are listed in a handlist, but are not currently included in the Collection's main illustrations card index. Some have been reproduced in Varsity magazine.
References: Mike Petty, The Photographers, (a handlist of local photographers), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Collection, 1992
Kelly's Directory of Cambridge 1953-57
Northern Whig - Wednesday 22 August 1956 P1 and Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 01 September 1955 p7 for reports on the Oxford and Cambridge Far-Eastern Expedition.
National Portrait Gallery catalogue www.npg.org.uk
Obituary by Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS on the RPS site in 2012: http://www.rps.org/news/detail/society_news/antony_barrington-brown_1927-2012)
"First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover" by Tim Slessor, photos by Antony Barrington-Brown.
Obituary by Graeme Aldous http://www.teeafit.co.uk/firstoverlandnewsletter/newsletter31.html

GHraduation Photograph by AC Barrington-Brown 1952

Graduation photograph by AC Barrington-Brown 1952

Barrington-Brown backstamp 1952

Name: BARRINGTON SAMPSON LTD
Address: 39 Whitmore St Whittlesey 1971, and additionally at 64 Station Road, March 1977
Working Dates: c.1971-77
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information:
References: Peterborough Yellow Pages 1971, 1974, 1977

BASEBE – see MASON and BASEBE

BAVERSTOCK, Daniel (Danny) See M and D Visuals

Name: BAYLES, Frederick b: c.1879 Middlesex d:
Address: 88 Russell Street, Peterborough
Working Dates: c.1891
Subjects, styles, advertising, other relevant information: In the 1891 census Frederick Bayles was listed as an apprentice photographer. He was the son of Isaac Bayles b: 1836 Yorkshire, a hotel waiter. No trace has been found of Frederick in 1901. In 1911 there was a Fred Bayles, born c.1878 Camberwell, a photographer, serving a sentence as a prisoner in HM Prison Stafford, for fraudulently obtaining money for bogus directory entries, This may or may not be the same person.
References: England census 1891, 1911.

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