Victorian Studios in Leeds

Hundreds of photographic studios were established in Leeds during the Victorian Era. As you would expect in any type of business not every one was a success, some failed, whereas a few were very successful enterprises and stayed in business for many years. Quite often these were family concerns with sons and daughters being involved. Sometimes the business was passed down through the family due either a retirement or a death in the family. 

When a photographer gave up his studio for one reason or another the studio and all the equipment and most importantly the negatives were often sold on to another photographer. These events were sometimes publicised in the press and it is interesting to look at these as quite often you are able to see a list of all the fixtures and fittings, this was described as the 'stock in trade', see examples in the Albert Sachs story, in Bradford, when Albert's studio was sold in 1920, and in the Sarony story when the entire 'stock in trade' was sold by Hobbiss in 1871. Retaining customers and the repeat business which they brought to the studio was obviously very important and that is why holding on to the negatives was so important, reprints could be made, a service which was often advertised on the back of the carte de visites. To assist in this the glass plates were sometimes numbered and details recorded in a day book, the negative number would be written on the back of the carte de visite or cabinet card. Sometimes the sitters name was even written on the backs of the photographs, although this is quite rare. A few examples of the mounting cards that were used are shown alongside the listings. Sometimes these can provide useful information about the studio and can help date the photograph. The design of these cards changed considerably from the 1850s through to 1910. At first the designs were quite plain but later they became much more elaborate. More information on these cards can be found here. Some early photographs were produced on glass and other materials and late in the 19th century portraits were sometimes printed on postcards. 

Some studio archives still exist from the Victorian Era, such as the W W Winter collection in Derby, where tens of thousands of glass plate negatives have survived. Their ledgers however have not survived and it is said that they were give up when there was an appeal for paper during the first world war. It has been possible to visit the Winters studio during heritage weekends and if this continues it is certainly well worth a visit. Quite remarkably the studio is still operating today. There is also a collection of glass plate negatives from the Brunskill studios, in Ambleside, where records of the sitters do still exist. 

Before the days when studios were lit by electricity the photographers relied on daylight. During the days of the daylight studio, buildings were converted with glass roofs being a popular feature. Due to the very nature of these leaky structures even if the building has survived the glass roof would not have, the roofs would have had to be replaced by a more conventional construction. When a photographer first set up a studio modifications to the buildings would have been required, and this required a considerable investment, and so it would have made perfect sense for the studios to be passed on from one photographer to another. You will see in this list that some studio addresses appear several times with different photographers taking charge. When electricity was finally introduced then some studios such as Rosemonts in Bond Street advertised that they had both Daylight and Electric Light Studios.

Thanks to those who have previously compiled lists of Leeds Photographers, these have been used as a starting point when drawing up the list shown below. This list has been compiled from a number of sources. It is currently being checked for accuracy and amended as necessary. Main sources have been Local Directories, British Newspaper Archives, RPS listings,  my own Carte De Visite collection,  Early Photographers In Leeds 1839-1870 and A Faithful likeness by Heathcote.. Quite a lot of new information has been added in the last eight years, however it should be noted that this list is not complete and the dates of the studios are approximate. It will be an ongoing task to maintain and modify the list drawing on new information as it comes to light, this should gradually improve its accuracy. Hopefully the list will be useful to anyone trying to date old photos of family members. The start and end dates will be verified, where possible, by reference to local press advertising and any information that can be gleaned from carte de visites, cabinet cards, magazines and books, or information from the descendants of the photographers, some of which have already been in touch. 

If you have any information on the studios or have photographs which have been dated then do please do get in touch and the best way to do this is via email. stpud2011@gmail.com Thank you.

Where addresses are given and no date has been shown then the information has been gathered from the addresses shown on the back of carte de visites. If an address is underlined then this shows that I have an example from the studio showing the address. Where a hyper link is provided then there is a biography of the Studio/Photographer either on this website or elsewhere. Dates showing a + sign before or after then this indicated that the studio date was extended beyond the date shown, but as yet no accurate start or end date can be found.

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Alexander and Billington, 39, Park Lane 1898-1899

Percy Alexander, 39 Park Street, 1898-1900

Anderson Bros, Goodman Terrace, 1897

31, Neven Street, 1899

James G Atkinson, Corner of Fenton Street and Woodhouse Lane

Arthur & Co, 23b Hanover Street 1899-1900

Joe Adamson, 22 Gresham Street, 1886-89

John William Atkinson, 13 Carr Street, 1857

James G Atkinsonm, Corner of Fenton Street and Woodhouse Lane

Thomas Atkinson, 70, Park Lane 1870

Fred Ash, 15 New Briggate 1908

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James Bacon & Sons, 38 Commercial Street  +1908+

James Bacon, 149 Woodhouse Lane, 1898-1902+

Thomas Bacon 149 Woodhouse Lane, 1894-97

John Baum opposite White Horse Hotel, Boar Lane 1855

Baume, White Horse Hotel, Boar Lane, 1855-56

George Balme, 30 Tulip Cres, Hunslet 1878

George Bannister, Cowling, 1889-99

Hartley Baron Late Eddisons 14 New Briggate

J Bardin, Blackburn Yard, Holbeck Lane, 1900

Harry Barraclough, Gildersome, 1889

W Barraclough, Otley

Edward Beaumont, 14 Melville Place +1908+

Joseph Bellwood, 7 Bude Road, 1897

William Lawford Berry, Gomersal, 1877-1900+

Archibald C Beilby, Roundhay

S C Bellhouse, 127 Victoria Road, Headingley

Billington of Alexander and Billington, 1890-99

Benjamin Brown Bingley, Gascoigne’s Yard Boar Lane, 1856-58

Johnson Boak, 61 New Briggate +1902+

Edward Boot

18 Central Market 1855-1870

New Briggate 1871-1883

Established at 18 Central Market as a general dealer in 1846, photographic studio being advertised from 1855. Photographs framed from one shilling upwards.

From 1863 CDV 10s per doz or 2s 6d for one. Notice to quit premises served 1870 due to redevelopmen Edward Boot given over £300 compensation.

From 1871 at New Briggate. CDV 5s per doz up to 1872, continued as photographer and lived at 23 Nile Street from 1875, died 2nd July 1883 aged 53

Jesse Bontoft Wells Road, Ilkley

John Berry Boden,

57, Park Lane 1861-70

123, Park Lane 1875-89

2 Caroline Street, 1870-78

2 Hanover Lane, 1881-89

25 Hanover Square, 1890-93

19 Winfield Mount, 1897

W A Bowes 6 Dodsworth’s Court, Briggate 1855

Thomas F F Borwell, 30 Lady Pit Lane, 1900

Robert Broadhead, Imperial Studio, 82 Woodhouse Lane 1881-83

Robert Broadhead, Sheepscar Studio, 194 North Street 1875-1908+

Charles Henry Braithwaite, Navey and Braithwaite April1856 to Sept 1857

C H Braithwaite, Nr Top of Briggate Established 1857

Reinhardt’s Yard, 75a Briggate 1857-88

82 Albion Street, 1888-1894

Charles died in Jan 1902 aged 85. In his later years he was living with his daughter Emily Emmott in Leeds but had been living in Ilkley for a while.

Arthur William Braithwaite, 82 Albion Street, 1892-1899

Son of C H Braithwaite. Arthur's wife Mary Jane was also a photographer. The family lived in Ilkley in 1881 and Arthur was also there in 1891. He died in 1899 aged 55. 

M J Braithwaite, 82 Albion Street, 1897-1898

Walter Braithwaite, 8 Monkbridge Road +1902+

Son of C H Braithwaite, well known Artist. died Feb 1917 aged 66

W I Brockbank, Bridge Street Studio, Otley. 1889-1900 (previously worked for Edson and Demaine)

J Brook, 14 Beckett Street

Thomas Brook, 14 Becket Street +1902-1908+

James Edward Brook, 4 Grosvenor Crescent, 1894- 1902+

Stewart Daniel Brooke, 29 Victoria Road, 1897

J S Brookes, 29 Hartwell Place, 1898

James Brown

11 New Station Street, 1889

72 Boar Lane 1890-91 also Manchester and Leicester

John Brayshaw, 59a Wellington Road, 1878-81

63a Wellington Road, 1882-83

Thomas Henry Briggs,

Ramsden and Briggs, 18 Park Row 1856

12 Sheepscar Street, 1857

Huggon and Briggs, 30 Park Row, 1861

21 Guildford Street, 1863

Henry G Briggs 12 Kelsall Street, 1897-98

16 Cookridge Street 1899-

R Broadhead, 194 North Street +1902+

Wilfred Beecher Broomfield, 72 Boar Lane, 1892-1893

Barnes Bell and Brown, 1a Commercial Street, 1881-87

Manager Roxby and Hemmons?

Alexander Brown, 29 Kings Avenue, 1892-93

Thomas W Brown, 77 North Street, 1861

76a North Street, 1863

78 North Street, 1866

Fred Strong Brownhill, 25 Hanover Lane, 1897

Albert Brundett, 115 North Street, 1890-91

William Brunton, Cookridge Street, 1857

James Burras,

2 Wilson Road, 1866

Wilson Row, Wellington Road, New Wortley

Wellington House, 61 Wellington Street, New Wortley 1870-73

Daniel Burden, 115 Bayswater Road, 1898

Charles Burrows and Arthur Walter Broughton, 24a Meadow Road, 1872-73

John T Burton, 15 Henfield Grove, 1894

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William Henry Chaffer, 4 Scarboro Street 1872-73

1 Stanhope Street.

150 Kirkstall Road 1872-87

William Chapman, 7 Thornhill Terrace, 1898

William Cheffins, Swallow Hill

Child and Wormald, 13, Great George Street, 1856-59

William Child, 14 and 66 Wellington Street 1861-1899

Child & Co, 14 Wellington Street, 1900+

City Stereoscopic Company, 26a Woodhouse Lane, 1897

John Clark and William Brunton, Cookridge Street, 1856-1858

Claphams, Corner of Kelsall Street, Wade Lane, Leeds. Pic of studio

John M Coppinger, 144 Burley Road, 1872-6

William Scott Cotton, 28 Bexley Grove, 1897

J Craven, 25 Upper North Street

T H Crosslands, Upper Accomodation Road, 1887

Jesse Crossthwaite, 18 Park Row, 1872-73

Crossthwaite and Heaps, 14 New Briggate, 1888-91

George A Croudson, Cookridge Street, 1861

20 Upper Accomodation Road, 1882-83

Cunningham and Wilson, St Anne’s Street, Woodhouse Lane, 1855

George and Wilson Cunningham, St Ann’s Street, Woodhouse Lane 1855

John Cunningham, 124 Wellington Road, 1870

James Curtriss, Trinity Street, 1881

69a Boar Lane, 1882-83

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Alex Denney, 10 Glasshouse street, Hunslet, 1872-73

Sarony and Dickinson 1863 - See Sarony

William Davidson Dinnie, 18 Park Row, 1886-1899

8 Bond Street, 1900-1902+

Thomas Dixon, 3 Infirmary Street, 1853-57

William Dobbings, 14 Wade Lane, 1857-58

G Duval & Co, 11 New Station Street, 1890-91

George Duce, Wellington Road, Near Holbeck Station, New Wortley 1864-75

Joseph Duce, Wellington Road, 1872

Durhams Ltd, 100 Briggate +1902+

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Eastmid Co Ltd 12 Kelsall Street, 1900

C Loyd Eastlake, 26 Hulland Street +1902+

Henry John Easton, 31 Park Lane, 1897

1 Chapel Street, 1898

John E Eddison or Eddison Ltd Also at Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Barnsley and Dewsbury

14 New Briggate 1892-99

11 Guildford Street, 1894-99

1 Commercial Street, 1894-99

Humphrey Eden, 11 Kenealy Street, 1894

William Elland, 14 New Briggate 1899-1902+ Late Eddison

Joseph Ellis & Co, 27 Beeston Road, 1881

Arthur Ellis, New Street, Pudsey

England (Roberts and England) 1894-1897

George Everson, Woodside, Horsforth, 1872-73

Excelsior Portrait Co, Oxford Place, 1897-1900+

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Alfred Fordsmith, 30 Park Row 1886-89 (Bankrupt in 1889)

Jemima Fordsmith, 30 Park Row, 1890-91

1890 Cabinet 6s per doz, Cartes 4s per dozen

Joseph Firth, 44 Queen Street 1886-97

Horace Flint, 77 Westover Road, Bramley 1893

Gilbert W Foster, Tower Building, 14 Woodhouse Lane, 1892-93

Charles Lindley Fountain, 9 Rock View Terrace, 1876

Fox, 30 Westover Road, 1894

William Henry Fox, 25 Norwood Road 1893

Tong Road, 1897

Lewis Edward Franks, 48 Briggate, 1857-58

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James Garbutt 10, Edinburgh Grove, 1897

James William Garbutt, 18 Armley Ridge Road, 1898-1900

Garner and Lonnergan, 3 Woodsley Road, 1900-1907 They also had a studio at Oldham. The partnership continued until 1907 when T E Lonergan continued the business in Leeds and W V Garner continued the studio at Oldham.

John Garratt, 115 North Street, 1892-1902+

Samuel Gaunt, 10 Holbeck Lane, 1867

Fred W Gibson, 1 Greenhow Avenue, 1897

Herbert Gilbey, 136 Oldfield Lane, 1897

WH Glassey, 33 Bismark Street, 1898

John William Goodacre, Town Street, Horsforth, 1886-89

William Gowland, 16 Edware View, 1894

W P Greenwood, Farsley, (could be advert)

Edgar J Gregson, Manager London Photo Co. 1897

Joseph Grimwell, Mistress Lane, 1863

Charles Groves, 309a Burley Road, 1892-1893

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W Fred Haddock, 11 Park Row, 1890-94

John Henry Haggitt, 117 North Street, 1858-61

George Simpson Haigh, Hunslet Road, 1861

Albert Haigh, 18 Sydenham Place, Holbeck, 1894

William Hanson, 18 Park Row, 1861-64

25 or 71 Great George Street, 1866-94 Est 1860 example dated 1880

Harehills Photographic Co 102 Marsh Lane +1902+

William Harper, 9 Butts Court, 1861

Tom Harper, 7 Carlton Terrace, 1861-63

Henry Harper, 7 Carlton Terrace, 1866

Lincoln Chambers, Cookridge Street, 1870-77

Arthur Harrison, 11 Park Street, 1898-1902+

Gerald Harrison, 13 Delhi Street, 1882-83

49 Holdforth Street, 1888-97

Harry Harrison, 175 Meanwood Road, 1893-99

C Harrison, 175 Meanwood Road, 1897

James Harrison, 6 Great George Street, 1855-56

172 Woodhouse Lane, 1857-73

28 Woodhouse Lane, 1875-78

Harrison & Sons, 28 Woodhouse Lane, 1881-93

James Harrison 89 Albion Street, 1897

John Harrison, Broadhead Chambers, Albion Street, 1894-97

Joseph C Harrison, 18 Park Row, 1870

Alfred Hayward and George Wilkinson, Leamington Street, 1875

Thomas Harvey and Richard Reynolds 13 Briggate, 1854-59

Harvey, Reynolds and Fowler, 10 Briggate, 1860-64

Harvey Reynolds & Co, 14 Commercial Street, and Briggate, 1865-86

Joseph Lofthouse Heaps, 20 Waverley Street, 1894

New Briggate

Robert Shiel Henderson, 159 Belle View Road, 1897-98

Henry Bedford Hemmons, Manager Brown Barnes and Bell, 1881

William Hemming Manager London Photo Co, 1893

Henry Hepworth, 64 Cobourg Street, 1855-56

67 Queen’s Place, 1857-58

Henry Hodgson, 22 Cedar Road, 1899-1900

John James Hobbiss, 15 Park Place, April 1865 - July 1866

1 Commercial Place, 1867- May 1870

corner of Portland Crescent and Great George Street 1870 -

Hobbiss had worked for Oliver Sarony for several years managing his studios in Leeds and Scarborough. He took over Sarony's business in Leeds in 1865. Edmund Wormald bought the negatives of Hobbiss in Dec 1870.

Israel Holdsworth, 13 Market Street, 1855-1861

Joshua Holland, Rider Street, 1870

Alfred Charles Hoskins, 12 Park Lane, 1894-1902+

John Houghton, 1 Percy Place 1882-83

1 Oldfield Lane, 1886

30 Copley Hill, 1887-1899

82 Albion Road, 1900-1902+

J Houghton, Opp top of Wellington Road, New Wortley

27 Park Row, 1842-47

30 Park Row, 1849-1856

Huggon & Co, 30 Park Row, 1857-1881

William Huggon was a pioneer in photography and an analytical chemist who lectured in Chemistry at the Leeds Mechanics Institute, from 1842 for 18 years.

Thomas A Huggins, 84 North Street, 1875

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E Ireland, 40 Albion Street and in Bradford, Manchester and Liverpool

J

Messrs Jackolett, American School of Photography, Boar Lane, 1859

Samuel Jackson, 9 Leeming Street, 1886

3/5 leeming Street, 1897-1900

Moses Jagger, 16a Richardshaw Lane, 1894-99

William Warren Jepson, 3 Woodsley Road, (over Yorkshire Penny Bank) 1895-99

30 Park Row, 1899+

Warren Jepson 3 Cookridge Street +1902+

Warren Jepson & Co, 38 Hanover Street, 1908-1911+

Regent Works off Hyde Park Road 1938

Charles Johnson, 6 Dodsworth Court Briggate, 1872-1900+

Miss Elizabeth Johnson, 6 Dodsworth Court, Briggate, 1872-1900+

Arthur Johnstone, 88 Albion Street, 1899

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Kershaw, 86 Skinner Avenue, 1882-83

Miss Mary Kinsley, 13a Market Street, 1899

James George Kirby, 46a Boar Lane, 1881

Miss Esther Olive Kitchin, 42 Lady Pit Lane, 1894-99

30 Lady Pit Lane, 1900-1902+

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Edward Lamb, 8 Moorfield Terrace, Yeadon 1899

E Lamb, Moorfield Studio, Yeadon

E Lamb, Dam Lane, Yeadon

Amos Lambert, Wellington Street, 1856

and Castle Market 1856

129 North Street 1857-1861

James Bogie Law Manager A & G Taylor, New Briggate 1878-89

J B Law & Co 5 New Briggate 1890-91

J B Law & Co, Leeds and Huddersfield, Queen Anne’s Buildings, New Briggate, Late A and G Taylor.

Charles Leach, Town Street Armley 1863-89

8 Athlone Street, Armley 1890-91

George Leach, 104 Park Lane 1890-91

Harold Leach Pontefract Lane, 1897

R Leak & Co 77 Westover Road, Bramley 1897-1902+

Edward Lee, 19 Midland Road, 1897

Arthur Leighton, 1 Commercial Street, 1898-99

Thomas Litherland, 3 Hunslet Road, 1868-1883

London Photographic Co. Managers Thomas Philips 1888

William Heming 1893

Edgar Gregson 1897

also at New Briggate 1886-1900+

London Portrait Co 2 Commercial Street, 1897-1900+

Fred Walker Lord, Bradford Row, Birstall, 1894

Michael Angelo Lowther, 56 Trafalgar Street, 1857-61

John Luscombe, Hunslet Road, 1870-75

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Alexander Macaulay, 10 Great George Street, 1854-75

36 Great George Street, 1876-78

Donald Mac Iver, 11 New Station Street 1886-88

8 Bond Street 1889-99

3 Victoria Road, Headingley 1890-94

Mac Iver & Co, 12 Kelsall Street, 1900+

A Maude, 70 Tunbridge Street

Tom Maloni, 5 Blenheim Terrace +1902+

Arthur Mann, 17 Bayswater Road, 1898

William H Mann, 22 Vicar Lane, 1875

Middleton & Shephard, 10 Pleasant Row, Quarry Hill

John Milner, Dewsbury Road, 1870

J Milner and Son, Leeds and Ilkley

West View House

Edward Morcomb, 39 Bayswater Road, 1894

H Morton, 3 Infirmary Street, 1854

John Murray, 5 Bath Road, 1870

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Joseph Navey and Millard, 14 Bishopgate, 1854

Joseph Navey and Charles Henry Braithwaite, 35 Albion Street, 1856-57

Joseph Navey, 35 Albion Street, 1857-58

40 Albion Street, 1861-66

Samuel Arthur Nichols, 107 Albion Street, 1897-1894

Richard Thomas Nicholson, Crosshills, 1881

65 Spenceley Street, 1898

Robert T Nicholson, 65 Spenceley Street, 1899-1902+

R T Nicholson, St Mark’s Street

Nicholsons Studio, Spenceley Street

John Nicholson, 65 Spenceley Street, 1897

Allen Nield, 23a Queen’s Arcade, 1892-1902+

36 Upper Balcony, Queens Arcade, 1899-1900+

Allen Nield, Lindenthorpe, Linden Road, Leeds also at Manchester, Stockport and Stalybridge

Allen Nield, 38 Rowland Road Leeds, Chief Office Printing and Enlarging Works +1902+

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Edwin/Ernest Charles Oddy, 102a Marsh Lane, 1897-99

Odgen 1854

James Osborne, Smithfield Marekt, 1866

40 Elland Road, 1872-73

John Oswell, 6 Selby Street, 1870

4 Napoleon Street, 1872-75

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Thomas Palliser, 2 St Mark’s Street, 1861-67

Richard Parish, 69 Theaker Lane, 1898

Pinfold Lane, 1898

Alex Penkett, 87 Meadow Lane, 1861

Perkins & Co 5 Vernon Street, +1902+

Ernest Pettingell, 37a Briggate, 1898-99

L Peverelle & Co, 2 Trinity Street, 1882-83

Thomas Phillips, Manager London Photo Co, 1888

Photographic Portrait Institution, 27 Park Row, 1842-47

30 Park Row, 1849

Charles Richard Hattersley Pickard, Victoria Buildings, 8 Park Lane, 1897-1900+

5 Park Lane (Commercial) +1902+

Alfred P Pilling, 3 Albert Street, Holbeck, +1902+

Hugh Prichard Leeds Photographic Institution, 27 Park Row, 1842

Henry Pumelle Bennett Road, 1897-1900+

65 Headingley Lane +1902+

James Purchon, 13 Wellington Street, 1857-58

William Purvis, 6 Nelson’s Yard, 1864

47 Briggate, 1866

R

M Radcliffe, Bennett Road, 1897

Ramsden & Briggs, 18 Park Row, 1856

Arton Ramsden, 38 Vaux Street, Hunslet, 1875-88

Rembrandt Studios, Calvert’s Chambers, 8 Commercial Street +1902+

Mrs Emily Richardson, Balm Road Hunslet, 1870

Thomas Richardson, 5 Sydenham Place, 1886

29 Domestic Street, Holbeck, 1886-1894

T Richardson, Domestic Street, St Manns field

J Richardson, Holbeck

William Robinson, 60, Victoria Road, 1872-73

John Robson, 1, Hunslet Road, 1863

Joseph Rosemont, (Josef Rosenberg ) 6, Bond Street, 1892-1908+

and Rawson Square, Bradford 1906-1908+

Official Photographer for Bradford’s 1904 exhibition.

William Rowland & Co, 107, Albion Street, 1894

William Rowling, 47, Caledonian Road +1902+

Fred William Ruba

Ruba & Vanburgh, 13a Market Street, 1900+

Ruba & Harrison 175 Meanwood Road, 1900

Ruba & Co, 175 Meanwood Road, +1902+

William Rusby, 46 Sweet Street, 1872-76

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J J Sadler Photo Dealer, 23 Park Row, 1897

Arthur Ernest Salter, 30 Park Row, 1892-93

Sarony and Dickinson, 15 Park Place, 1862-1863

Oliver Sarony, 15 Park Place, 1863-66

Sarony was one of the most celebrated photographers of the Victorian Era. His studio in Scarborough was magnificent and one of the best studios in Europe. From the mid 1840s Sarony operated as an itinerant photographer, until eventually in the late 1850s he decided to settle down. His studio in Leeds was operating at the same time as his Scarborough studio. His Leeds studio was sold to Hobbiss who had been working for Sarony.

Thomas Schofield, Fox Terrace, Dewsbury Road, 1856

Albert Scott, 71 New Briggate, 1886

Joseph Scott, 147 Lower Wortley Road, 1887

A Seaman & Son, 31 Park Lane, 1898-1900+

James Shaw, 69 Hunslet Road, 1857-58

Henry Sherwood, Kirkstall Road, 1857-58

Joseph Silcock, 1 Clovelly Place, 1897

Peter Paul Skeolan, 14 Commercial Street, 1864-71

William Smith, 33/35/77/55/57 Park Lane, 1870-1881

1 Commercial Street, 1876-78

14 New Briggate, 1881-87

Smith & Co, High Street, Yeadon, 1893

John Kirby Smith, Apperley Lane, Rawdon, 1894

M Smith, Church Street, Kirkstall, 1872-73

Mabel S Smith, 107 Albion Street

M & F Smith, 107, Albion Street +1908+

S Speight Morley, 1876-78

Squire Speight, 34 Wellington Road, 1877

William Spencer, Brunswick Studio, 35 Richardshaw Lane, Pudsey +1908+

Samuel Stansfield, 28 Goodman Street, 1872-73

Hunslet Road, 1878-83

30 Park Row, 1882-83

Joseph Stephenson, 33a North Street, 1864

John Steward, 77 Hunslet Lane 1898

75 Hunslet Lane, 1900

Samuel Swinson, 26 Bayswater Place, 1894-97

Miss Alice Josephine Swithenbank, 26 Holland Street, Hunslet Road, 1900+

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Arthur Thawley, 22 Galway Grove, Hunslet Hall Road 1892-94

309 Burley Road, 1894-1908+

72 Boar Lane, 1897-1900+

Fred Thornton, 20 Oxley Street, 1897

Archibald Thwaites, 8 Tenth Avenue, 1893-94

John Varley Titterington, 97 Church Street, Hunslet 1866

Israel Todd, North Parade, Otley 1880-1885

William C Tomlinson, Cross Carlton Street, 1866

Samuel Topham and Hugh Pritchard

27 Park Row, 1842

Topham & Co, 27 Park Row, 1842-48

Samuel Topham, 27 Park Row, 1844-1848 ??

Samuel Topham & Son, 27 Park Row, 1848

30 Park Row, 1849-53

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George Villiers, St Ann’s Street, Woodhouse Lane, 1853

Lionel Vanburg, 161 Roundhay Park, 1899-1900+

Vanburgh, Briggate

Arthur Vale, 150 Kirkstall Road +1908+

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Harry Walker, 134 ToStanningley, 1893-94

Frank Walton, 28 New Briggate, 1878-1902+

51a New Briggate, 1887-98

13, Crimbles Street +1908+

Arthur Tom Cavill Walker, Bentley Hill, Meanwood, 1886

Stonegate Road, Meanwood, 1888-91

George Felix Watson, The City Studio, 55a Park Lane, 1894-98

John Webster, 14 Holdforth Street, 1872-73

John Wetherill, 37 St Paul’s Street, 1857-58

98 Briggate, 1861-64

Albert James Wheeler, 55 Burmantoft’s Street, 1897

George Wheeler, 55 Burmantoft’s Street, 1897

Bruce Lionel White, 1 Regent Park Avenue, 1900-1902+

Bank Buildings, Headingley Lane +1908+

S E and A E Whitehead Bagley Lane, Rodley

J T Wilson, Chapeltown

Wilkinson & Thornton, 28 Woodhouse Lane, 1894-97

J T Wilson Chapeltown

John E Wilson, 22 Lambton Terrace, 1894

Samuel Wilson, 45 Bayswater Road, 1898

12 St Alban Place, 1900-1902+

Hubert Winterhalter, 84/86 North Street, 1881-1897

Heslop Woods, 12 Kelsall Street, 1886-1896

After going bankrupt in 1896 he moved to Scarborough and started business with his nephew Robert Sanderson Woods operating as Woods & Co 1899 - 1910+

Solomon Woolston, 8 Banstead Street +1902+

Wormald & Child, 13 Great George Street, 1856-59

Edmund Wormald, 13 Great George Street, 1860-1872

46 Great George Street, 1872-1887

Wormald Brothers, 46, Great George Street, 1888-90

1890 was a tragic year for Edmund Wormald. His wife and son died within four weeks of each other, and his partnership with his brother Joseph was dissolved. Joseph continued his photographic 

business and died in 1911. He is buried at Lawnswood Cemetery in Leeds.

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Joseph Wormald, 46 Great George Street, 1866-1900+

142 Hunslet Road +1902-1908+

Richard Wright, 22 Rockingham Street, 1870

George Wright, 40 Beverley Avenue, 1898

32 Lady Pitt Lane +1908+