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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The Francis Frith Collection website isn't just about photographs! For many years we have also been home to historic maps. Here's part 1 of our blog posts on maps.

Continue reading 'Maps In Focus - Part 1'...

Vintage Cars & Motoring photographs from The Francis Frith Collection

Continue reading 'Vintage Cars & Motoring'...

Images from The Francis Frith Collection of William Shakespeare's favourite places, to mark the 400th anniversary of his death.

Continue reading 'Shakespeare's favourite places'...

Elevate your Canvas Print with a handmade frame.

Continue reading 'Framed Canvas Prints'...

This week on "Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman" features some nostalgic Frith photographs of Llandudno, Margate and Lyme Regis.

Continue reading 'More Frith photos on TV'...

A look at the Frith photographs of Bournemouth, Paignton, Southbourne, Ladram Bay and Brighton featured on BBC's "Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman".

Continue reading 'Photos on "Holiday of My Lifetime"'...

Frith photos are featured once again in the BBC One series "Holiday Of My Lifetime with Len Goodman".

Continue reading 'Frith photos on the BBC!'...

Take some time out of the pre-Christmas madness and enjoy a few specially selected Memories about family Christmases of the past - we hope you enjoy them!

Continue reading 'Memories of Christmas Past'...

Special excerpts from our Frith Memories Community call to mind personal experiences of wartime and Remembrance Days of the past.

Continue reading 'Remembrance Day'...

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.

Continue reading 'Wish you were here!'...

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!).

Continue reading 'British Summer Holidays'...

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.

Continue reading 'Digitising The Archive'...