Derbyshire Photographers Profiles : Horace Holme of Long Eaton
Derbyshire Photographers' Profiles
by Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand
Horace Holme

of Long Eaton




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Horace Holme operated from The Studio, Refuge Assurance Building, Market Place in Long Eaton from 1920 (a 1948 directory states that the firm was established in that year) until about the early or mid-1960s, when he retired.

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Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings
The extended Hutchings family,
by H. Holme of 135 College Street, Long Eaton,
Undated, but probably taken in the summer of 1919 or 1920
Size: 216 x 270 mm

Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings

Notes by DH:  Includes my great-grandfather Joseph Cockbill aged nearly 90 (d. 1926, bur. at Walton on Trent). Location: Garden/tennis court next to 80 Derby Road, Long Eaton. In the background, the Bethel Chapel is visible at top left.  Long Eaton Vicarage? mid right


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The Hutchings Brothers,
by H. Holme of 135 College Street, Long Eaton,
Undated, but probably taken c. 1919-20
Format: Post Card
Size: 84 x 136 mm

Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings

Notes: Location as in above photo.


Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings
Rev. George Arthur Morgan,
by Horace Holme of Long Eaton,
Undated, but probably taken in the late 1920s
Format: Post Card, impressed "Horace Holme, LONG EATON" Size: 128 x 83 mm

Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings

Notes by DH:  In c. 1925 GAM moved to Wollaton Rd Methodist Church, Beeston, and c. 1929 he officiated at my grandfather's funeral service.


Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings
Long Eaton Motor Club Dance at the Rialto, Long Eaton,
by Horace Holme,
Dated 19 Ooctober 1928
Size: 137 x 234 mm

Image © & courtesy of David Hutchings

Notes by DH:  Includes five members of the Hutchings family


Image © & courtesy of Roger Beswick Eric Beswick, taken by Horace Holme at Long Eaton, c.1944

Image © & courtesy of Roger Beswick

No further information is available relating to this photograph.

Image © & courtesy of Roger Beswick

References
Image kindly provided by David Hutchings & Roger Beswick
Information provided by David Hutchings
Anon (1932) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1932, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London.

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