The Frith Blog
Articles, news and opinions from The Francis Frith Collection.
We are always looking at old photographs and quite often we come across fascinating stories, facts and scenes and we want to share these with you. This is why we created the Frith Blog - it could be a set of photographs connected with the current season, upcoming events or a theme. We hope you enjoy browsing what we've found and if you have any ideas of articles we could create in the future, please let us know.
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Special excerpts from our Frith Memories Community call to mind personal experiences of wartime and Remembrance Days of the past.
Having a lovely time - wish you were here! Francis Frith’s company originally produced small photograph prints that people could paste into a scrapbook as souvenir pictures from their holidays. Here we showcase some of the composite postcard-style images in the Collection.
Childhood Summer holidays in Britain will forever hold a dear place in our hearts. In this post we bring you photographs that celebrate the quintessential British Summer experience (umbrellas and all!).
We have huge, huge news! We’re in the final days of digitising the whole Frith archive. This vast project will result in an extraordinary national treasure becoming accessible to all, in its entirety.
Bonnets, parasols, boaters & full-circle skirts! These wonderful vintage trends make an oh-so fashionable statement in many of our photographs.
Shining a light on pedal-power of the past, when a bicycle was the preferred form of transport rather than an environmental statement.
The incomparable hustle & bustle of life on the market! A collection of specially selected nostalgic photos capture the personalities and unique excitement of busy market days of the past.
Please enjoy some timeless images from The Francis Frith Collection of the gorgeous locations that are the real star of Winston Graham's tale and the wonderful new BBC series of Poldark.
Sit back and remember the thrill of the silver screen for children in the 1950s - oh the fun to be had at the Saturday children's matinee!
We've added a raft of new local history material previously only available in Frith book titles and which we hope you'll find fascinating. We have commissioned specialist local history authors to bring their knowledge and research to over 1,000 local history books. Some of the 10 million words of text assembled is now published to browse online.
For a while many of our customers have requested we offer a bigger Print for their homes or businesses, so here it is - new for 2015. This larger format works perfectly with the high quality of Frith photos because it draws out extraordinary detail.