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Derbyshire
Photographers' Profiles
by Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand Frederick Holbrook of Belper |
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Holbrook
was born c. 1864 in Belper, Derbyshire. By the time of the
1881
Census
he was living with his older brother Samuel at Common Side, Belper, and
working as an engine man. Trade directories later show
Frederick
Holbrook with studios at Albert Street (1895) and George Street (1912)
in Belper. The 1901 Census indicates that he was working as a
photographer on his own account, and boarding with a family named
Street in Chapel Street, Belper.
Adamson (1997) gives dates of 1906-1912 for the operation of the George
Street premises. A postcard photo taken c.
1915 suggests he also
had a
studio at New Road, and a 1925 directory gives the address of a studio
at 14
Field Row in Belper, a building which, according to the Belper
Research web site, burnt down. |
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A group of
Belper postmen by F. Holbrook Undated, but probably taken in the 1890s Format: Unmounted print Image © & courtesy of Adrian Farmer Notes: |
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School
group - High Street Infants by F. Holbrook of Belper Taken 1894-1895 Format: Cabinet card Image © & courtesy of Adrian Farmer Notes: |
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Unidentified
teenage
boy, possibly in costume
by F. Holbrook of Belper, Undated, but possibly taken c. 1900 Format: Cabinet card Image © & courtesy of Samantha Smith No further information about this photo. |
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Joseph
Turton (1882-1957) and Agnes Turton née Holbrook (1885-1906),
by F. Holbrook of George Street, Belper, Undated, but probably taken c. 1905-1906 Format: Cabinet card Size: Mount 108 x 166 mm Photo 95 x 138 mm Image © & courtesy of Robin Turton No further information about this photo. |
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Fanny
Whiteman by F. Holbrook, of George Street Studios, Belper taken between 1910 and 1920 Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Cynthia Maddock Notes by CM: This is Fanny Whiteman, my grandfather Amos Whiteman's sister from Milford. The family lived at Hopping Hill in her early days. |
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Louisa
McAuslan
(née Adshead) in Red Cross uniform taken at Green Hall Hospital by F. Holbrook, of George Street Studios, Belper taken between 1914 and 1918 (poss. dated Mar 1914) Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Robert Silverwood No further information. |
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Doris
McAuslan (daughter
of Louisa McAuslan, above) in Red Cross uniform taken at Green Hall Hospital by F. Holbrook, of George Street Studios, Belper taken between 1914 and 1918 (poss. Mar 1914) Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Robert Silverwood No further information. |
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Mary Rice
with her
grandson Geoffrey Storr, taken by F. Holbrook, of George Street
&
New
Road Studios, Belper, c. 1915
Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Robert Silverwood No further information. |
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A group of
wounded soldiers from
Green Hall by F. Holbrook of Belper Undated, but probably taken between 1914 and 1918 Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Adrian Farmer Notes: |
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| Unidentified
group,
by Holbrook, of George Street, Belper, Unknown date
Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Robert Silverwood No further information. |
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Three
generations of
the Watherston family from Heage, Derbyshire,
by F. Holbrook, of George Street, Belper, taken c. 1917 Format: Postcard Image © & courtesy of Diane Alton-Kaighin Annie Watherston née Rushworth (b. 1856) (back), her daughter Alathea Mary Yates Alton née Watherston (1886-1966) (right), and her grandchildren Freda Mary Alton (1909-1991) and Alfred George Alton (1910-1965) |
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by Diane
Alton-Kaighin:
Annie Rushworth - baptized 15 October 1856 at Heslington, Yorkshire, married Alfred Watherston from Heslington, Yorkshire (I've yet to find a marriage record). I don't when she died but she had moved to Blackpool, England in about 1924 and I have mail that was sent to her in 1938. My mother (b.1933) remembers an old woman living upstairs to his gran's who use to bang on the floor with a cane when they made too much noise. Alathea Mary Yates Watherston - born 20 December 1886 at Leeds, Yorkshire, married Thomas Alton 20 April 1908 at Heage, Derbyshire, died 21 March 1966 at Blackpool, Lancashire. Freda Mary Alton - born 1909 at Heage, Derbyshire, never married, died 27 April 1991 at Blackpool, Lancashire. Alfred George Alton - born 24 March 1910, married Doris May Harper 19 November 1931 at Blackpool, Lancashire, died 14 June 1965 at Blackpool, Lancashire. My great-grandfather Thomas Alton, Alathea's husband, died of pneumonia at the age of 34, on 1 February 1917, after six weeks of bootcamp. I believe this photo was taken for him to keep with him if he was sent to the trenches. All the photo's etc., are thanks to Freda. They were unknown until discovered in a chest in 1987 when she was being moved into a nursing home. |
| References
Images kindly provided by Adrian Farmer, Cynthia Maddock, Robin Turton, Samantha Smith, Diane Alton-Kaighin and Robert Silverwood 1871-1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD Anon (1895) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Kelly & Co. Limited, London. Anon (1895) History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire, T. Bulmer & Co. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith Anon (1912) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1912, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. |
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