Brimscombe, Valley 1890
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Photo ref: 25165X
Photo of Brimscombe, Valley 1890

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This image is a Reference Print: it has not been shown on our website before as it has not been optimised and therefore may not meet the quality standards we require for use in our normal product range. However, we understand that this image could be potentially important for genealogical, local history or architectural research and so we are showing it on the website for on-line research only. The photo may be available to buy, but needs to be checked and optimised before you can place an order.

Why are these different? All 300,000 photographs in The Frith Collection have been scanned, but as the photos were taken over a 110 year period on a wide range of glass & film negatives, using different photographic processes, every image has to be checked and optimised, before we make a print for a customer.

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A Selection of Memories from Brimscombe

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Brimscombe

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This photo is taken off a knowle in Knapp Hill Lane, above the Factories, of Critchlies, (now demolished0, who made hair grips and knitting needles in the 1960s and Olympic Varnish, who in made working canal boats in 1890. Knapp Lane exits into Toadsmoor Lane and past a factory once known as “Shiltons”, now closed, (who were wool staplers and working in 1890). This area was known as the Knapp Lane ...see more
This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, (the "Haunted House" and home of the Duke & Duchess of Kent). The photo looks towards the face of Brimscombe Hill, (and although its out of shot), the 120 degree Corner, is hidden by ...see more
Swells Hill is mentioned in the doomsday book where very little else in this photo is. the row of a few houses in the foreground are the top part of Swells Hill, perched on the "Knoll" Looking east up the Golden Valley to the other knoll of Walls Quarry, perched half way up Brimscombe Hill. Much as it has been since 1901. The prominence of Walls Quarry and the steep encourages the siting ...see more
This is a very rare photo which is taken from a grass slope below a small coppice in a valley known as the "Moors" from the bottom of what is now called Orchard Lane. This unusual photo looks up the lane, (from its nearest lowest point), SE towards the Brimscombe Hill & Walls Quarry. The lowest point is actually underneath the railway bridge, just emerging as a stone wall, (bottom ...see more