A photographic portrait studio was in continuous operation at 51-52 Robertson Street, Hastings, for over 50 years. [ABOVE] A late Victorian photograph of ‘The Memorial Studio’ at 51-52 Robertson Street, Hastings placed alongside an 1872 Ordnance Survey Map of Hastings showing the location of the studio (marked in red). The Proprietors of the Photographic PortraitContinue reading “The Memorial Studio, Hastings (1864-1918)”
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W. E. A. Drinkwater: Gallery of Photographs
The photographer William Edwin Alexander Drinkwater occupied his studio in Havelock Road, Hastings for about five years (1888-1892). The studio at 31 Havelock Road, Hastings was the first studio that William Drinkwater owned, but It seems that to give the impression that he had long experience as a professional photographer, the twenty-three year old beganContinue reading “W. E. A. Drinkwater: Gallery of Photographs”
William Edwin Alexander Drinkwater
W. E. A. Drinkwater, Professional Photographer in Hastings between 1888 and 1892 William Edwin Alexander Drinkwater was born in Sparkbrook, Birmingham on 6th September 1865, the only son of professional photographer William Wilson Drinkwater (1845-1895) and his wife Sarah Ann Doveiner (born 1844). William’s father, William Wilson Drinkwater had been born on 24th April 1845Continue reading “William Edwin Alexander Drinkwater”
Victorian Sussex Photographers 