This list includes studios in Keighley, Bingley and Skipton. The information is drawn from local directories and British Newspaper Archives press reports. It will be updated and it accuracy improved as more information becomes available. Where a name is underlined it means that an example from the studios is available.
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George Bannister 1893-1906
George Bannister 109, South Street, Keighley (Kellys 1893 and 1901)
G Bannister, 109 Halifax Road, Keighley moved out of shop prior to June 1906 (Bingley Chronicle 22nd June 1906)
Bertram Basebe, Earl Street, Keighley (Kellys 1901)
John Binns, Laylands House, Low Bridge, Keighley, (Kellys 1901)
Thomas W Bradley, Highfield Street, Keighley 1870-1877 (Whites 1870, POD 1877)
2 Highfield Lane, Keighley, Albert Street also mentioned.
John Bradley, Junction Street, Keighley, (Whites 1870)
Mrs Sophia Brownsworth, 19 Otley Street, Skipton, 1893 -1908
(Kellys1893 and 1908)
Wife of David Brownsworth Artist and Photographer who died in 1891. In 1888 he was living at 19 Otley Street, house and shop.
David Brownsworth, Otley Street, Skipton, (Kellys 1908)
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William Cooke 1861-1887
1861 Turkey Street Keighley, (Whites 1861) Census shows him living at Strawberry Cottage, Occupation Photographer and Optician. Early CDVs show Strawberry Cottage address rather than Skipton Road.
1871 Skipton Road. (POD 1871) Census shows him living at North Street, Keighley, William aged 40, Occupation Photographer.
1875 107 North Street (Whites 1875, 1881, 1887 and 1888, also Cravens 1884)
1881 107 North Street, Census shows Earl Street. William listed as Artist - Oil Painting. Maybe this is his home address. Son Francis aged 21 Artist Student.
1891 Census shows 107 North Street. Listed as Artist, Oil and Water Colour painting.
John Edward Cole 45 Aireworth Street, Keighley 1874-1901 (Kellys 1888)
The Studio, 45 Aireworth Street, Keighley. Est 1874
(Cravens 1884, Whites 1887, Kellys 1893 and Kellys 1901)
Benjamin Cullingworth, Cavendish Street, Keighley, 1871.
Died suddenly in 1876. He had been a photographer for many years. At one time resident of Harrogate (Knareborough Post 1st April 1876)
Henry Charlton, Well Street, Keighley, (Kellys 1901)
H Charlton, 45 Aireworth Street, Keighley, (Kellys 1908)
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David Dove, 25 Gordon Street, Keighley, (Kellys 1901)
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E W Evans – Jessop took his studio in 1884
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Pickles Greenwood 1877-1901 (POS 1877, Kellys 1893 and 1901)
Hainsworth Lane, Ingrow, Keighley (POD WR 1877)
Spring Bank, Ingrow, )Kellys 1877, 1901)
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Richard Holgate, 65 Main Street, Bingley. 1877-1884
(Pod 1877, Whites 1881, Cravens 1884)
Died in 1896 (Bfd Daily Telegraph 7th July 1896)
Alfred J Hart Halifax Road Studio, Keighley, 1887-1893
Mrs Mary Hart, 27 Oakworth Road, Keighley (Kellys 1888)
William and Walter Harvey, 33 Florest Street, Keighley, (Kellys 1908)
W Horner, Spring Gardens, Otley Road, Skipton, (Kellys 1901)
Elizabeth Horrobine, High Street, Skipton, and Morecambe
High Street, Skipton 1869-1876
Morecambe, 1861-1894. For many years A J Croxall managed the Morecambe studio. (Lancaster Standard 31st Aug 1894)
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George Inskip, 2 Keighley Road, Skipton, 1881-1908 (1881 Clothing district, 1884 Cravens, Kellys 1901, 1908)
Richard Inskip, 1 Waller Hill, Skipton,(Kellys 1893)
David Ibbotson, 16 North Street, Keighley, 1908
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W J Jessop 1884 (Late Evans)
Skipton Road, Near Mechanics Institute, Keighley
North Street, Keighley Late Evans (Cravens 1884)
Alex Jennings 1876-1908
1876 Waller Hill, Keighley Road, Skipton 1876 (Craven Herald 15th April 1876)
1881 Belmont Terrace, Skipton (Whites clothing district directory 1881)
1884 Waller Hill Skipton Photographic Artist (Cravens 1884)
1887 Skipton & Keighley (Whites 1887)
1893 46 Cavendish Street, Keighley (Kellys 1893)
1898 New Studio Cavendish Street (Keighley News 26th Feb 1898)
1901 Cavendish Street Keighley (Kellys 1901)
1904 Cavendish Street Keighley (Robinsons 1904)
1908 105 Cavendish Street Keighley (Kellys 1908)
Park Road, Bingley
John Joy, 29 Royal Arcade, Keighley, 1908 (Kellys)
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Keighley Photographic Studio 45 Aireworth Street, 1887 – See John Cole
William Knowles, Burlington Studio, 16 North Parade, Keighley 1905
One dozen cabinet photos 12s 6d. (Bingley Chronicle 4th Aug 1905)
Dec 1905 Photo greetings cards, Stamp size 1s, Midgets 1s 6d per doz. (Yorkshire Evening Post 16th Dc 1905)
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George W Lover, Waller Hill, Skipton, 1901 (Kellys 1901)
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James Masker 1870-1877
2-4 North Brunswick Street, Keighley (Whites 1870, 1875)
North Adelaide Street, Keighley (POD West Riding 1877)
Died Jan 1914 (Shipley Times 30th Jan 1914 Obit and photo)
Duncan McKenzie, 4 North Brunswick Street, Keighley 1884-1887 (Cravens 1884, Whites 1887)
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Robertson & Co Cavendish Street, Keighley, 1879 (Keighley News 7th June 1879)
Carte de visite 2s 6d per doz, Cabinet Size 1s 6d each, large portraits and coloured in oil from 3s.
William Robertson & Co 4 North Brunswick Street, Keighley. (Whites West Riding Clothing 1881, Cravens 1884).
John Hartley Riddiough, 82 Low Street, Keighley, (Kellys 1908)
Robert Riley, New Street, Keighley, (Whites 1870)
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William Smith 1893-1901
Crossroads, Keighley, (Kellys 1893, 1901)
William Smith, Myrte Place, Bingley, (Jones 1863)
John Henry Smith, 1901-1908
Hallam’s Yard, Sheep Street, Skipton (Kellys 1901)
Waller Hill Skipton, (Kellys 1908)
Arthur Sagar 1889-1909
A Sager, Church Street, Keighley. According to local press opened in 1889 in Church Green.1889 -1909 (Kellys 1893,1901,1908, Robertsons 1904)
A Sager, Keighley and Dial Street, Nelson 1895 (Nelson Chronicle 5th April 1895) The Nelson studio may have been short lived as only one reference can be found to this in 1895.
A Sager, Keighley and 55, North Parade, Bradford 1900-1912 . It would appear the previous occupants of the Bradford studio were T.C. Bridges and G.F. Smith. Sagar may have bought their business as a going concern. It would have been much easier for him to expand his business by taking over an existing studio rather than starting a new one himself.
1904 in Bradford advertised viewing places available for Royal procession.
An announcement in March 1909 said the business had failed. He was living at 27 Hall Royd Shipley. Reports say the trouble was Sagar spent money travelling to USA due to a relationship with another woman, rather than his wife.
D Smith & Co, 1893-1908 (Kellys West Riding 1893)
D Smith & Co. Burrage Gdns Bingley (Kellys 1901)
D Smith & Co Wellington Street Bingley (Kellys 1908)
Robert Speight, Wellington Street, Bingley, (Jones 1863)
Samuel Storey, 16 North Street Keighley, 1901-1904 (Manager of Sagar’s Keighley studio 1889) (Kellys 1901, Robinsons 1904)
Eli Sharp, Cavendish Street, Keighley, (Whites 1870)
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George Tillett, Park Road, Bingley, (Kellys 1908)
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J C Wright & Co (Late Wilkinsons Photographers) Aireworth Street, Holy Croft, Keighley from Jan 1879 (Keighley News 25th Jan 1879)
CDV from 2s 6d to 6s per dozen
Cabinets from 8s to 12s per dozen
J C Wright & Co 45 Aireworth Street, Keighley (Whites Clothing District 1881)
Two employees of Wright were taken to court in May 1879 for Sunday trading in Bingley. These were John Ellis, an employee of Wright, and Frederick Newell. Both stated their address was Holy Croft, most probably the business address. They were” unlawfully using worldly labour on the Lord’s Day.”
J Wilkinson
J Wilkinson, Mill Lane Burnley, New Market Street Blackburn, 76 Market Street Colne and Aireworth Street Holy Croft Keighley.
As above, Lancashire and Yorkshire School of Photography
J Wilkinson & Co, as above plus Barnoldswick.
Wilkinson & Co, as above plus Claremont Terrace Nelson.
Wilkinson & Co as above plus The Market Todmorden, Great Harewood, Padiham and Leonard Place Bingley (total of ten studios).
Mill Lane, Burnley closed in 1878 (Burnley Express 7th Sept 1878)
Keighley and Bingley, Branches closed in 1879. Wright & Co took the studio at Keighley. (Keighley News 25th Jan 1879)
J Wilkinson, 59, Albion Street, Maida Hill, Burnley
J Wilkinson, 79, Market Street, Colne
William Waddington, 70, North Street, Keighley, (Kellys 1901)
George Whitaker, Leonard Street, Bingley, 1901-1908 (Kellys 1901, 1908)
James Wilson, South Street, Keighley. (Kellys 1888)
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