Special Thanks

I would like thank the following people and organisations for making this site possible and for their help, advice and cooperation.

Bradford Central Library Staff for being helpful and obliging.

Leeds Central Library and Leodis Staff for being helpful, for information and allowing use of photos and the Library itself for holding on to such important material.

West Yorkshire Archives Staff for providing information on Percy Lund and John Sowden

National Media Museum for a wonderful tour around the archives.

British Newspaper Archive for providing a magnificent resource.

The expert contributors on Rootchat for thier input.

Julie Woodward, Shipley College for information on Titus Salt

Sarah Laycock, Bronte Parsonage Museum for providing information on John Hartley who ran the Post Office at Haworth.

Ron Cosens for advice, donating a magazine on Carbon Printing and providing me with lots of photos

The Royal Photographic Society for producing and selling the RPS supplements listing Leeds and Bradford Photographers.

Ken Kenzie for creating a very useful directory of Bradford Photographers.

David Rosemont for providing information on the Photographer Joseph Rosemont of Leeds and for a family photo.

David Bould for providing information on the Photographer Donald Mac Iver of Leeds and Bradford and for family photos.

Barbara Armstrong (nee Wormald) for providing and kindly allowing use of the photos of Edmund and Elizabeth Wormald

The staff at the J B Priestley Library for being super efficient and obliging and an opportunity to view the archives relating to Isaac Holden and Willie Riley.

Staff at the Royal Museum of Central Africa for providing information on Edmund Passingham and Henry Morton Stanley

Ian Leith from English Heritage for information on E Wormald and the Bedford Lemere Collection.

The late Eric Evans and family for donating a book on Early Leeds Photographers, for information on Richard Appleton and providing me with a St John's Camera.

Dr Annie Jamieson for help on the Appleton Studios.

Ancestry.co.uk and Findmypast for providing the resource to enable me to trace photographers family trees.

Memorial Art Gallery, New York for information on Edmund Passingham and a copy of 'The Print Sellers Window'

John Appleyard, author of The Story of Lucy and Percy Lund for information and help on Percy Lund

Joanna Sassoon for information on Ernest Lund Mitchell (Author of 'How E. L. Mitchel's photographs shaped Australia')

Tim Mitchell for sharing research and providing information on Percy Lund, Richard James Appleton and a portrait of RJ

Marjorie Williams for donating a copy of her book on the Lancaster Brothers, Artists and Photographers from Bradford.

Ray Brammall for donating a book The Yorkshire Photographic Union The First Hundred Years (1899-1999)

Caroline Brown and the Staff at Keighley Local Studies Library for information on Percy Lund and the portrait of Anne Bronte.

Paul Frecker for use of a photo of Oliver Sarony

Anne and Paul Bayliss and the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society for a copy of the Anne and Paul Bayliss article on Oliver Sarony.

Terry Levitt and Micheal Bortoft for photos of the Sarony studio in Scarborough.

The staff at Scarborough Library for information on Oliver Sarony.

Samantha Burrow for her drawing of the Sarony Studio building.

The Borthwick Institute archives, University of York for material relating to the take over of Gainsborough house (Part of Oliver Sarony's studio building) by The Retreat

Graham Hall for providing a copy of his article in the Bradford Antiquary on Lund Humphries.

Charles Lubelski for supplying a copy of a letter between Charles Lund and Edward Walter Humphries and for sharing research information.

Rosalind Moulton for a copy of the Lund's family history written by Alice Becker (Charles Lund's daughter) in 1934 and for donating other significant material relating to the family archive.

Richard Becker for copies of photos of Percy Lund and family, for copies of documents and for trusting me with a collection of Magic Lantern Slides which belonged to Percy Lund.

Shirley Murray for her translation of an article in the french journal Photo Magazine.

Lodge of the Living Stones No 4957 for information on W. L. Wilmshurst and The Seeker magazine

Geoff Huntriss for information on William Huntriss of Halifax

Mark Gamble for his article on Leeds Photographer William Hanson

The residents of Ryton who have helped to trace the history of an old Victorian Album

Gordon Jackson for information on Heslop Woods and Woods & Co, Scarborough and a photo from the studio.

Trevor Illingworth for allowing me to purchase the Holden Illingworth album and for sharing research information.

A descendant of F H Bentham for the loan of two Bentham albums along with supporting material.

Phil Willis for permission to use a photo of Albert Sach's studio

William Glen for comprehensive information on Henry Graham Glen's photographic and postcard business

and last but not least the Massam Family for getting me interested in this subject.