|
JOSEPH WINGRAVE
Reproduced by permission of: David Fry d.fry@virgin.net
February 1999
Updated: February 05, 2004
[format only]
This
is the only Coventry based commercial photographer from the nineteenth
century that took photographs of the city outside his studio. This is an
amazing fact considering how many were doing so in the first twenty
years of the twentieth century. Most of his photographs date from 1860s
and 1870s. Hardly any exist before this time and most of the later ones
were taken by interested amateurs.
Most
of his photographs were produced in the 'carte de visite' style which
was a sepia photograph on thin paper stuck onto a credit card sized
piece of card. An advertisement of his for views of Coventry and
District was featured in a local newspaper of 1868.
Wingrave
was born in Luton in 1821 and moved to Coventry in the 1840s. He opened
a Chemist shop in High Street near where Waterstones bookshop can be
found today. No doubt his knowledge of chemicals was useful for managing
the very complicated method of processing the glass photographic plates
used in those days. He was very interested in the history and life of
the city, being involved with a number of local organizations. He died
in 1897
PHOTO:
Miss Edgerton as (Lady Godiva) 1877 http://freespace.virgin.net/d.fry/godivajp/god1887.JPG
Visit David Fry's
Site:
at THE
COVENTRY WE HAVE LOST
A site dedicated to older photographic images of Coventry
David Fry Email d.fry@virgin.net
Additional Information : Webmaster
1881 Census
Dwelling: 2 Grosvenor
Terrace
Census Place: Coventry St Michael,
Warwick, England
Source: FHL Film 1341733 PRO
Ref RG11 Piece 3070 Folio 34 Page 20
Marr Age Sex
Birthplace
Joseph WINGRAVE
M 59
M Luton, Bedford, England
Occ: Chemist & Druggist
Jane WINGRAVE
M 57
F Hemel Hempstead, Hertford
England
Rel: Wife
Arthur WINGRAVE
U 20
M Coventry, Warwick, England
Rel: Son Occ: Chemist
Fanny WYATT
U 39
F Aylesbury, Buckingham, England
Rel: Sister in Law No Occupation
Elizabeth SANDERS U
21 F Exhall,
Warwick, England
Rel: General Servant Domestic
Related
Links : WINGRAVES of the WIDE WORLD
|
|
