Places

2 places found.

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Maps

181,087 maps found.

1897 - 1914, Ffrith Ref. HOSM45366
1924, Ffrith Ref. POP705013
1947, Ffrith Ref. NPO705013
1897, Ffrith Ref. RNE705013
1947, Y-Ffrith Ref. NPO876046
1898, Y-Ffrith Ref. RNE876046
1902-1903, Ffrith Ref. RNC705013
1922, Y-Ffrith Ref. POP876046
1902-1903, Y-Ffrith Ref. RNC876046
1898, Frith Bank Ref. RNE709511
1919, Frith-Hill Ref. POP709558
1887, Frith Bank Ref. HOSM45845
1921, Little Frith Ref. POP757284
1921, Frith Ref. POP709509
1946, Frith Ref. NPO709509
1895, Frith Ref. RNE709509
1946, Frith Bank Ref. NPO709511
1898, Frith Common Ref. RNE709513
1940, Frith Hill Ref. NPO709530
1896, Frith Hill Ref. RNE709530

Memories

55 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

Francis Frith Murderer Of Eyam

I am astonished that this collection is Francis Frith and I am assuming it is a coincidence that I found it when looking up Francis Frith of Eyam. Francis Frith was a resident of Eyam in Derbsyhire. He and his wife were ...Read more

A memory of Eyam by Lesley Beeley

Notes From The Frith Files.

This photograph shows residents waiting for the No.144 Midland Red bus from Malvern to Worcester outside the village shops. Far left is EW Bird's butchers, left is Cromptons newsagents, off picture further left is Procters ...Read more

A memory of Powick

Hendon, The Fountain C1960

In the 1900s the site of the 'Fountain' (Frith H397067) was then known as 'The Burroughs Pond' and was/is sited at the crossroads of The Burroughs, Station Road and Watford Way, back then it was open ended at ground level so that ...Read more

A memory of Hendon by Mr. Gerald Rickwood

Memories.

My mother ran Burraton Post Office from 1950 to about 1990 and sold Frith postcards. The cows are being driven by Mrs Cook, a farmer's wife, whose farm was about 300 yards behind the photographer in Liskeard Road, Burraton. The farm was ...Read more

A memory of Burraton by Claire Allen

Earlswood Brickmakers

This photograph was added to the Frith Website in 2006, I believe. However, I think it was taken towards the West end of Earlswood Common. I think it is of my Great Grandfather's home, Mackrells. GGF William Brown was a ...Read more

A memory of Earlswood by Richard Brown

At The Skating Rink

I have a copy of this postcard and believe my sister and I are skating in the bottom left corner of the picture (unfortunately under the Frith logo on the image).  The gentleman in the grey jacket leaning on the railings watching I ...Read more

A memory of Rhyl in 1955 by Ann Hayes

Meadvale As A Living Village

When we first moved to "the estate" in the early fifties I would have to catch the bus into Reigate as I went to school in Holmesdale Road. The school I have forgotten about but what is memorable was the smell of the fresh ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1957 by Richard Greenway

Happiness

Hi in the seventies every summer my late husband, myself and our three children stayed in an old caravan on Plas Hen farm,and they were the happiest of times. We could walk down Lon Geod to go to Afon Wen beach,and a more lovelier walk is ...Read more

A memory of Chwilog by Kathleen Pyke

Ffrith Beach

Oh, the days of endless sunshine, carefree explorations up to the hills above our beloved Ffrith! I was one of the crowd who walked the donkeys and ponies on Ffrith Beach for Mr Pulleine. We walked for MILES during those happy times, ...Read more

A memory of Prestatyn in 1960

Inherited Postcard

I have an original postcard of this picture from the Frith Series. It is unstamped and printed on the card is "Affix Half Penny Stamp". Handwritten on the card is "The seat of Mr Tremayn & about one mile from here" Also printed on the card is F. Frith & Co Ltd, Reigate, No 21284

A memory of Morval by Reg Dennis

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Captions

64 captions found. Showing results 1 to 24.

Caption For Hawkshead, Main Street And Post Office 1912

The popularity of Frith's postcards was already well established when this photograph was taken, as a sign on the wall above the door shows.

Caption For Looe, Fishermen 1906

This is one of Frith's posed groups.

Caption For West Hanney, Memorial Corner C1955

To the left of Frith's photographer are the grounds of West Hannay House, built as a rectory in 1727 in a good Baroque Hawksmoor-ish style, and behind him the lane leads to St James's parish church, which

Caption For Bredgar, The Street C1955

Francis Frith and his successors seemed to take some interest in Post Offices as photographic subjects, as I am sure you will have noticed; after all, it was the village post office and stores that usually

Caption For Storrington, The Monastery 1894

The Village 1894 Frith's photographer paused a mile or so west of Storrington in the hamlet of Cootham.

Caption For Margate, Marine Sands C1950

This Frith scene from 1950 contrasts with Francis Frith's photographs of Margate Sands in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Caption For Thebes, The Broken Obelisk C1857

Frith includes human figures; as well as giving some indication of scale, they also echo Roberts's picture.

Caption For Congleton, Dane Valley 1898

Although not identified by the Frith photographer, this scene appears to be taken near Danebridge, a short way upstream from the weir and canal feeder.

Caption For Canterbury, West Gate And St Dunstan's Street 1921

The Frith photographer returned just over thirty years later to take a further picture of the West Gate.

Caption For Willesborough, Sandy Lane 1909

They seem to be posing for the Frith photographer.

Caption For Bolton Abbey, The Village Green C1950

The trees on the green in the estate village of Bolton Abbey at the entrance to Wharfedale had just been subjected to a severe pollarding when the Frith photographer called to take this photograph.

Caption For Bollington, General View 1903

The sight of a man setting up a large tripod camera seemed to fascinate children: hundreds of pictures in the Frith archive seem to point to this.

Caption For Castletown, Derby Haven And Fort Island 1897

In this view the Frith cameraman has included part of the broad sweep of Castletown Bay.

Caption For Hawkshead, Village Post Office 1896

On the wall alongside the door are display boards advertising Frith & Co local photographs.

Caption For Bradwell, The Steps C1955

They were, however, deserted when the Frith photographer called to take this shot.

Caption For Woking, Chertsey Road C1955

Almost sixty years after photograph 42025 was taken, Frith's photographers returned to take a further view down Chertsey Road.

Caption For Taunton, Fore Street, Old Houses 1912

This part of Fore Street is now a pedestrian precinct with trees, flower beds and benches lining the side of the road where the Frith photographer would have stood to take this picture.

Caption For Chigwell, The Village C1960

One of the great advantages of the Frith Collection is that the photographers often went back to the same locations, which provides us with subtle degrees of change.

Caption For Lynmouth, Cherry Bridge 1907

The sheep dog lies in the dust of the lane welcoming the brief respite from his labour, caused by the chance meeting with the Frith photographer.

Caption For Exmouth, The Sands 1906

Photography was still enough of a novelty in Edwardian England for the Frith photographer to get bathers to pose for him - as we can see in this charming picture of young people paddling on the

Caption For Bedford, The Promenade 1921

Frith's 1921 photographer has climbed the hair-pin railinged fence to look along the Embankment Gardens themselves with their neat floral beds.

Caption For Bollington, Wesleyan Chapel 1897

For some reason best left to the Frith cameraman, one of Bollington's more interesting structures is in fact just off camera to the left.

Caption For Northchapel, The Village 1902

rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662.The Half Moon is a 16th-century inn.The Swan Inn can be seen down the road beyond the horse-drawn vehicles that are waiting for the Frith

Caption For Swinton, Main Street C1960

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.