Catalogue ReferenceD/EX1690/1
TitlePhotograph album, originally of Naomi Thirkell.
Description(Includes photographs of Crowthorne, Easthampstead, Hurst, Sonning, Wallingford, Windsor, Wokingham, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, London, Sussex, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland, France and Spain.)

Detailed description by page number:

p1-8 Paris, France
8-9 Bayonne, France
10-11 Biarritz, France
12-13 Silent Sister Convent, [Biarritz?], including photographs of the nuns dining, gardening, walking in a crocodile, doing needlework and praying out of doors
14-17 Pau, France
18 [St] Sebastian, Spain
19 Market Place, The Terrace, and Rose Street, Wokingham
20 Broad Street, Wokingham
21 Glamis Castle, Scotland
22 Dundrum, co Down, Ireland
22-25 Newcastle, co Down, Ireland, including Tollymore Park
26 Hillsborough Castle, Hillsborough Old Castle, and Dundrum Old Castle, co Down, Ireland
27 Statue of Duke of Wellington
28 All Saints' Church, Wokingham
29 St Paul's Church, Wokingham
30 Market Place (showing the Town Hall), Wokingham
31 [Worthing Pier, Sussex]
32-33 Dover, Kent
34 St George's Church, Hanover Square, London (interior and exterior)
35 Isle of Wight scenes, including Carisbrooke Castle and Whippingham Church
36-38 Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight
39 Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight
40-41 Easthampstead Park
42 Unidentified fĂȘte
43 [Sonning Bridge]
44 [Wallingford] and Great Marlow (Buckinghamshire)
45-48 [Isle of Wight], including ladies' bathing machines on the beach
49 Boat trip, [Isle of Wight?]
50-51 Unidentified scenes
52-54 Interior of [Wortley Hall, Yorkshire] (showing pictures by Edward Poynter RA, since lost) [Naomi Thirkell was brought up at Wortley Hall, where her father George was the gamekeeper until his death at the hands of poachers in 1867; Naomi and her siblings were subsequently educated by George's employer Lord Wharncliffe, owner of Wortley Hall.]
55 Wellington College Station Post Office, drapery and fancy stores run by Hill & Co, with dwelling house, [Crowthorne], [c.1891-1899]
56 Easthampstead Park, 1899
57 Bearwood, [Hurst], 1899
58-59 Naval Brigade celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee at Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1887
60 Graves of T Murdock, MP for Reading (d.1898) in All Saints' churchyard, and of I Goodchild (d.1900) in St Paul's churchyard, Wokingham
61 Cricket teams ([Wokingham Borough?] Council vs Fire Brigade match, 12 July 1899)
62 Mounted company of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Windsor Camp, August 1899
63 Posed group: [army band]
64 Family group; and Chambers' [confectionery and refreshments] shop
Date1884-1900
RepositoryBerkshire Record Office (code: GB 005)
LevelFile
Extent1 vol
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