Photo Scarborough

Lovely booklet advertising Scarborough’s Royal Hotel, c1960, illustrated by Laurence Scarfe, photographs by Harry Bennett and printed by the Curwen Press.

We are running a couple of workshops in a couple of weeks - 28 September 2025, at Beeforth Hive in Scarborough. Make your own camera obscura and pinhole cameras. For more and to book - www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/photo-scar...

Do you have 6 - 8hrs a month that you can spare?
The Winter Heritage Trust is seeking a Treasurer and new trustees to help build a sustainable future for Britain’s oldest photographic studio.
Download the advertisement to learn more -
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St Nicholas Cliff and the Rotunda Museum by John Latham of Matlock Bath. Scarborough was photographed by many photographers! #stereoscopyday #photographichistory #Scarboroughhistory

In Scarborough and have time to pop in and see this small exhibition?
#historicphotography

Pop-Up Exhibition
Back Stories: imagery on the reverse of 19th century photography.

Learn about the fascinating world of Carte de Visite photographs - by looking at the backs of them! What can the tell us about 19th century photographers

Castle Book Bindery, Scarborough Market
10 May-10 June 2025

This is a lovely exhibition - I could almost smell the bread!

Hidden Mother photography, Scarborough — Photo Scarborough Hidden Mother Photography, carte de visite portraits, Scarborough Photographers

New blog!

Exploring the Victorian photographers who photographed children and how they often positioned mothers behind them to keep them still, dressed in black, hiding behind the chair, these were the hidden mothers.

www.photoscarborough.org.uk/blog-2-1/wom...

What a cracking sheep! This carte de visite portrait of an unknown girl on a toy sheep is by Scarborough photographer Arthur May Cromack. Find out more about him here - www.photoscarborough.org.uk/arthur-cromack

The W W Winter Lecture - Photography and the Country House Speaker: Jonathan Wallis (online only talk)

Looking forward to this.

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George Royle’s Fol de Rols theatrical entertainment group, based at Scarborough’s Floral Hall from 1911-1914. Photographer: Boxell & Co. The business of Thomas Boxell born in Brighton in 1845, in Scarborough from about 1880.

Thomas Huggins came from Surrey to work in Oliver Sarony’s Scarborough photographic studio during the 1860s. He soon set up a rival business, by 1881 he was in Leeds + later found in York + Hull.
Find out more about him + other Scarborough photographers - www.photoscarborough.org.uk/thomas-huggins

The world is a much worse place today to hear of the passing of John Blakemore last night.
I had the honour of working with John a number of times, always an inspiration and amazing person.
Rest well my friend 🕊️
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Built over a nearly 11 year period Scarborough’s Marine Drive was only accessed by those paying a toll between 1908 and WW2. Photographer: A. Hickman, Museum Terrace, Scarborough. Anyone know anything about him?
More on the rich photographic history of the town - www.photoscarborough.org.uk

Women Photographers – hidden in plain sight — Photo Scarborough Discover the women photographers creating work in Scarborough

NEW BLOG POST! Women Photographers - Hidden in Plain Sight. History of women in commercial photography in Scarborough.
#womenphotographers #photographichistory #scarborough #yorkshirecoast

www.photoscarborough.org.uk/blog-2-1/wom...

Photographic portrait of a 19th century man with great moustache and sideburns wearing a long coat and hat.

Back of a carte de visite portrait by Beckett and Willis Scarborough Photographers, with the Scarborough coat of arms

This chap, Mr Cornwall is wearing what we’d love to for this New Years Eve party! Very smart in 1864. Beckett and Willis had a short lived partnership between 1863 and 1866, both continuing their business in Scarborough after the partnership was dissolved.
#photographichistory #yorkshirecoast

Edward Taylor was born in Scarborough in c.1848. By 1879 he was advertising his photographic studio near the Promenade Pier. He worked on the sands during the season.

Find out more - www.photoscarborough.org.uk/edward-taylor

#photographichistory #yorkshirecoast #portrait

George Willis was know for his views of Yorkshire Abbeys. Like many other photographers his bread and butter was portraiture. This one is unusual as just these has been cut out and mounted on this carte de visite.
Find out more about Scarborough’s photographers - www.photoscarborough.org

James Townsend Wigney was a Huddersfield photographer who during the summer seasons of the 1860s set up a studio in Scarborough Assembly Rooms. His portraits of theatrical celebrities and politicians can be found in national museum collections.
www.photoscarborough.org.uk/james-wigney

One of many Scarborough photographers, Charles Dickinson Brigham had an eventful life. Threatening behaviour, embezzlement, fights in pubs and sadly suicide. Find out more here - www.photoscarborough.org.uk/charles-brig...
#photographers #photographichistory #scarborough

Oliver Sarony is probably the best known of all of the Scarborough photographers. His studio on South Cliff was at one time the largest in Europe. This carbon print cabinet card with an unknown sitter illustrates why he was so well known.

#sarony #photography #carbonprint #photographichistory

Scarborough had many different photographers in the the 19th and 20th Centuries. This Carte de Visite portrait of an unknown woman is by Henry Holder.
You can find out more about him here - www.photoscarborough.org.uk/henry-holder