Reference code: GB-0033-EDI
Title: Edis Photographic Negatives
Dates of creation: ca. 1860- ca. 1960
Extent: ca. 1,840 items
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Edis photographers (Durham)
The Edis family's photography business flourished in Durham for almost seventy years, from the 1890s until 1964. The survival of the Edis negatives now in Durham University Library owes much to the initiative and energy of Dr. C.W. Gibby. The
Library's collection is a selection from the firm's stock made by him, together with Dr. A.I. Doyle, at the time the firm was being wound up. Working in considerable haste, they attempted to pick out negatives relating to the city of Durham, people
associated with it and places near it. The University Library bought the negatives they chose, together with the copyright. Further selections were taken by the Cathedral Library and the University's Department of Archaeology. The remainder of the
stock, consisting largely of portraits, was acquired by what is now the Beamish North of England Open Air Museum.
John Reed Edis, founder of the firm, was born in London in 1860 and became one of the first students at Quintin Hogg's newly founded Polytechnic, where he trained as a photographer. About 1885 he moved to Darlington where he worked in partnership
with another photographer. In the 1890s he set up business in Durham, at first in the Sherburn Road. By 1897 however he had moved to Saddler Street where the firm remained for the rest of its existence, initially at no.53, from 1898 to 1932 at
no.52, and from 1933 at no.51. Edis became official photographer to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, to the colleges of the University and to Durham School, and also established a reputation as a landscape photographer. After his death in 1942, the
firm was carried on by his daughter, Mrs. Spence, who had joined her father in the business in 1901, while still in her teens. As "Daisy" she was familiar to generations of Durham schoolboys and undergraduates as the photographer of their school and
college groups, but she was also a specialist in portrait photography, becoming an associate and then fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a fellow of The Institute of British Photography. Her portraits were widely exhibited, in the U.S.A.
and Japan, as well as in Britain. These details of her career and of her father's are based on recollections communicated to Dr. Gibby by her son, Rev. J.E. Spence.
The University Library's Edis collection contains about 1,840 glass negatives, comprising mainly Durham City and University subjects, with a great number of portraits. Negatives of buildings and views in Durham City constitute a large part of the
collection. Only a minority are dated, the earliest two views of the interior of St. Giles Church in 1910, the latest a picture taken in 1963 of the cottage at the end of South Bailey, a site now occupied by St. Cuthbert's Society. The negatives
record many other buildings now demolished or much altered. They include a fine selection of period-piece shop fronts, views of the market-place decorated for the coronation of George V in 1911, showing the pant still in position there, and a
photograph of its demolition in 1923, prior to its removal to Wharton Park. Perhaps the most striking photograph in the collection is one of the Durham headquarters of the British Union of Fascists, with four blackshirts on guard outside. The Durham
negatives also include many of the Cathedral and Castle, a number of them recording paintings from the latter. Among the portraits are numerous school and university groups, and pictures of the staff of local firms and of local organisations from
the Langley Park Rechabites to a Durham branch of the Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers.
Outside Durham there are negatives of Newton Hall and both the exterior and interior of Coxhoe Hall, showing some of the furnishings. Others record collieries in the Durham neighbourhood and interiors of miners' cottages, council housing, road
works and bridge repairs. Engineering, industrial, and surveying pictures taken for Durham County Council and other institutions and companies in the 1920s and 1930s, and for Siemens of Hartlepool, Spennymoor and elsewhere in the 1940s and 1950s,
make up significant groups.
Since the collection was originally acquired by the Library three further groups of negatives have been added to it by donation. Two of these, both given by Dr. Gibby, are entirely unconnected with the Edis firm. First is a group of about 20
stereoscopic negatives ("Stereo pairs") which seem to date from the 1860s, and which Dr. Gibby acquired through William Arthur Bramwell, the Durham City amateur photographer of the first half of the century. The second group consists of about 50
glass negatives mainly of Durham Castle and Cathedral by Reuben Green, a butler at Durham Castle in the first half of the 20th century. (These are mostly identified by a green ink numeral in the corner of the glass). The third group consists of some
twenty glass negatives, mostly of Ramsden's Yorkshire pubs, found (in poor condition) in an outhouse of Miss Edis's house in Gilesgate by a later owner, Professor Frank Spooner; only the place in which they were discovered connects them with the
Edis firm.
The negatives are generally shelved in sequence. When, usually because of its size, a negative is shelved out of sequence, its number is given an asterisk (*) suffix. It is helpful if users of the collection can include this in their
citations.
The work of identifying and arranging the negatives in the collection was begun by Dr. Gibby, and has been completed by Roger Norris of the University Library staff, who has compiled this handlist (a revision and expansion of the earlier list by
Mrs. Christine Purcell). The collection's arrangement, originally devised by Dr. Gibby, is broadly alphabetical by the subject descriptor assigned to individual negatives. Material on Durham Castle is grouped in class Ca, and on Durham Cathedral at
Ch; portraits and groups are at Pi. Class X contains negatives of so far unidentified subjects. Some inconsistencies in the use of descriptors and in choice of terminology mean that the resulting sequence does not itself produce a satisfactory
subject guide to the collection, and a subject index is therefore provided at the end of the list. (This has been thought preferable to a rearrangement of the collection, since the location numbers assigned by Dr. Gibby had already been used for
citation purposes when the University Library took over work on completing the cataloguing of the collection). The X class has been indexed under the most general headings; users of the collection may find these negatives a challenge to their local
knowledge, and the Library would greatly welcome any improved identifications users can supply of these and other items in the collection. Indexing of photographs of industrial machinery of the 1930-50s has proved particularly difficult, and the
Library staff hope that users of the collection who recognise the processes involved will provide corrections and amplifications of the descriptions in the list.
A complete visual index of 5" x 3" prints of the negatives, arranged in the same order as the collection, is available for users of the collection in the Palace Green Library's Special Reading Room. This is largely the work of Dr. Gibby and Mr.
D.V. Kelly.
There are Edis photographs in many other photographic collections at Durham.
Parts of the Edis firm's stock went to Durham Cathedral Library, Durham County Record Office and Beamish Museum.
A
BEDI/B19 12 February 1925
Browney Bridge, Croxdale, County Durham, under repair with motorcar JPT 4545 under traffic restrictions (man with flag) Oakmead house being constructed in the distance. A group of onlookers watching the camera
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Brandon Bridge. - EDI/B19 EDI/B27 1963
South Bailey, Durham: cottage at end of.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/B58
Bede College Chapel, Durham: Furnishings, chair, kneeler & stand. See also B7, B11, B39, B63, B66 and B72
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Bede College, Durham: chapel furnishings, chair, kneeler & stand. - EDI/B58 EDI/B61 24 March 1925
Browney view; photographed for Durham County Council.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B63
Bede College, Durham: Theatre tableau in new chapel.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B65 24 March 1925
Browney view: fenestration of house front; photographed for Durham County Council.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B66
Bede College, Durham: Christmas tableau in new chapel.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B67
Browney Bridge: speed restriction (to 4 m.p.h.) notice.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B69 February 1925
Browney Bridge: structural flaw.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B70 February 1925
Browney Bridge: structural flaw.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B72
Bede College, Durham: chapel with tableau of three magi.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B73
Bede College, Durham: chapel with altar.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/B76*
Banks of the river Wear at Durham.
Size: 16 x 14 inches
CEDI/C1 July 1911
Durham Chronicle Staff outside Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C6
St. Oswald's Church, Durham: Chancel looking east.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C10 October 1936
Claypath, Durham: no. 80 - Old city public library.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C11 October 1936
Claypath, Durham: no. 80 - Old city public library.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C12 October 1936
Claypath, Durham: no. 80 - Old city public library.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C13
Mackay's carpet factory, Freeman's Place, Durham: Engine.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C16 March 1925
St. Chad's College, Durham: dining hall.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C18 1933
Durham Cathedral choristers, with Canon H.Y. Ganderton.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C19 March 1925
St. Chad's College, Durham: dining hall.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C20
Court Lane/New Elvet (B. Peace's shop), Durham.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 i
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 ii
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 iii
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
EDI/C22 iv
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 v
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 vi
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 vii
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 viii
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 ix
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C22 x
Council Houses, Framwellgate Moor, Durham.
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C32 15 March 1926
Chester-le-Street. Bridge and entrance arch to Lambton Park.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C44
Claypath Gate, Durham: Nicholson engraving.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
EDI/C46
Claypath, Durham: Fowler's shop, advert for "One-o-one".
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C48 March 1926
Croxdale Bridge, diagram of development of soffit of masonry skew arch.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C52 December 1924
Chester-le-Street bridge.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C66
Charley's Cross, Durham, from drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1778 (original in British Museum).
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C67 March 1926
Croxdale Bridge: steelwork plan.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C68 February 1924
Charabanc, Tiger no. 2, from Hetton-le-Hole.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C75
St. Chad's College, Durham: Chapel, North Bailey.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C77 January 1927
Croxdale Bridge; photographed for MacAlpine.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C78 February 1927
Croxdale Road bridge; photographed for MacAlpine.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C79 5 March 1926
Croxdale Bridge; photographed for Durham County Council.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C80 29 May 1926
Croxdale Bridge; photographed for Merritt.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C83
Claypath, Durham: no. 80 - old police station.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C84
Christie organ in the Royal Cinema, North Road (after 1934).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C86 December 1924
Chester-le-Street bridge.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C91 December 1924
Chester-le-Street: Lambton bridge.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C92 April 1921
St. Oswald's Churchyard, Durham: war memorial.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C93
St. Oswald's Church, Durham: clerestory window. Stone decay.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C94 April 1921
St. Oswald's Church, Durham: war memorial.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C95
St. Oswald's Church, Durham: clerestory window: stone decay.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C96* c. 1860
St. Oswald's Church, Durham: churchyard. Stereoscopic.
Size: 3¼ x6¾ inches
Digitised version EDI/C97* c. 1860
St Oswald's Church, Durham: churchyard. Stereoscopic.
Size: 3¼ x 6¾ inches
Digitised version EDI/C98 April 1924
Cottage hospital. Plans and elevation of a proposed cottage hospital, derived from
The builder.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C99 April 1924
Cottage hospital. Plans and elevation of a proposed cottage hospital, derived from
The builder.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C100 c. 1930
Chilton Moor church: Interior, photographed for Keith Fraser.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C101 29 May 1926
Croxdale new road bridge; photographed for Durham County Council.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C103 March 1926
Croxdale new road bridge: plan.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C104
Claypath, Durham: James Fowler Ltd. Window display re Ryvita.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C105 December 1924
Chester-le-Street: beneath the floor timbers of a house (?).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C106
St. Chad's College, Durham: chapel altar (?)
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C108
[Chilton Moor]: back view of house & garden; photographed for Keith Fraser (vicar of Chilton Moor till 1929).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/C110
9 The College, Durham Archdeacon of Durham's house. A positive.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C111 May 1919
Coke Oven Construction Company: works interior.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C112 May 1919
Coke Oven Construction Company: works interior.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C114 May 1919
Coke Oven Construction Company: works interior, (negative badly faded.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C119 c. 1910-1920?
Crossgate, Durham, looking East from the steps of nos. 55/56. A photograph, possibly by W.A. Bramwell, not by D. Edis
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C121 10 September 1925
Croxdale new bridge: 1 detail of dog-toothing.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C122
Skull (memento mori with hinged top) belonging to Dr. Crawhall.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/C123* 30th November 1922
County Club: Durham County Club: Old Elvet, Durham city: menu signatures for 1st Battalion of the D.L.I. 35/29.
Size: 12 x 10 inches
Digitised version EDI/C124 1920
Sketch of Castle, from Crossgate, by Robert Bertram. 35/25.
Size: 12 x 10 inches
Digitised version
Ca: Durham CastleEDI/Ca5 March 1936
Oil painting of Durham Castle, photographed for C.E. Whiting.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca6
Tunstall Gallery, after Edward Bradley (Cuthbert Bede).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca8 April 1914
Norman Chapel: window, photographed for Jones.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca9
Castle and Cathedral from Framwellgate Bridge, oil painting.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca10
Black Staircase, after Edward Bradley.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca18
Castle from Framwellgate Bridge, oil painting.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca19
Castle from Framwellgate Bridge, oil painting.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca37 April 1914
North wall; photographed for W.T. Jones, architect.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca45
Ante-room of the Senior Common Room (top corner of glass negative broken).
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca51
Le Puiset doorway, Tunstall Gallery.
Celluloid
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca52
Le Puiset doorway, Tunstall Gallery.
Celluloid
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca53
Castle from Framwellgate Bridge.
Celluloid
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca54
Norman Chapel, after a 19th century engraving.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca58
17th century oil painting of the Castle: as it were, from the chancery building roof, from the South.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca59 24 May 1937
North frontage of Castle, during building of Marks & Spencer.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca60
The Father Smith organ case (Bernard Smith: 17th cent.) now at the west end of the Tunstall chapel, but formerly (1686-1873) this was the Chaire organ case, part of the east side case of the Cathedral organ.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca86
Norman Chapel: capital: diaper ornament.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca104
Norman Chapel: view from West. [Reuben Green, no.4/3]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca106
Tunstall Chapel: misericord: man carrying woman in a wheelbarrow.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca107
Kitchen exterior with Tudor panelling. [Reuben Green no.36]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca109
Keep & Master's House from Palace Green. [Reuben Green no.17/2]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca112
Keep & Master's House from Palace Green.
Size: [Reuben Green no.17/1] inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca114
Norman gallery: window. [Reuben Green no.34]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca115
Tunstall Chapel: bench end. [Reuben Green no.16/3]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca117
Tunstall Chapel: misericord: St. George and the dragon.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca118
Tunstall Chapel: bench end [Reuben Green no.16/1] [print reversed].
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca119
Tunstall Chapel: bench end [Reuben Green no.16/2] [print reversed].
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca120
Norman Chapel: general interior from West.
Size: 6 x 4 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca125
Castle from South Street. [Reuben Green no.8]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca126
Ante-room of the Senior Common Room. [Reuben Green no.21]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca129
Norman doorway in Tunstall Gallery: Norman doorway.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca134
View of Castle from below Prebends Bridge - fishermen in foreground. South Street banks.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca135* c. 1920
Assize Judge's car, with group of policemen, in Durham Castle forecourt. Top right-hand corner broken off.
Size: 12 x 10 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca136* March 1920
Assize Judge's car, with group of police with bicycles, in Durham Castle forecourt.
Size: 12 x 10 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ca137*
Durham Castle Great Hall.
Size: 10 x 12 inches
EDI/Ca138*
Fellows' garden looking North East.
Size: 12 x 15 inches
EDI/Ca139*
Castle forecourt.
Size: 12 x 15 inches
Ch: Durham Cathedral and CollegeEDI/Ch3 June 1912
Galilee Chapel: interior, North side.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch4 May 1931
Marble tablet listings, priors and deans, (South Sanctuary aisle).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch5 June 1912
Galilee Chapel: interior, N.E. corner.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch7 March 1929
War memorial and railings at East end.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch8 November 1911
Sketch of Deanery, perhaps by R. Surtees; for G.W. Kitchin's book on the Deanery 1912.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch10
Choir looking West; after Edmund Hastings.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch11 January 1910
Back of College houses (Nos 7 & 8).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch20
Boss in Nine Altars Chapel.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Surface of glass negative badly peeled.
Digitised version EDI/Ch22 May 1931
Marble tablet listing bishops, priors and deans, (South Sanctuary aisle).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch23
Detail of Porch capitals (includes an archer).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch25 January 1910
Back of College houses (Nos 7-8).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch27
Empty matrix for Bishop Lewis de Beaumont brass, at the approach to the Sanctuary.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch33
Cathedral from Prebends' Bridge, positive.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch40
Gregory Chapel with Robert Kiddey Mothers' Union bas relief.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch42
Aerial view of peninsula and two sides of St. Cuthbert's coffin (2 pictures on negative)
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch46
St. Cuthbert's coffin (2 archangel side).
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch50
Cardinal Thomas Langley's tomb, Galilee Chapel.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch51
Altar frontal: Italian, with exotic birds.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch58
Lectern by Scott and Skidmore. Reuben Green: 25.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch60
No. 9 The College: Archdeacon of Durham's house. (now part of the Chorister School) positive.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch61
No. 9 The College: Archdeacon of Durham's house. (now part of the Chorister School) positive.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch62
Galilee chapel/and/Prior Thomas Castel clock (2 pictures on negative)
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch63
Aerial view of peninsula/and/two sides of St. Cuthbert's coffin (2 pictures on negative)
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch64
Nave (empty)/and/feretory (2 pictures on negative)
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch65
RAF window by Hugh Easton in N.W. corner of nave of the Cathedral.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch66
RAF window by Hugh Easton in N.W. corner of the nave of the Cathedral.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch69
Empty matrix for Lewis de Beaumont brass, in choir.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch71
No.9 The College: Archdeacon of Durham's house.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch75
Londonderry memorial in north feretory aisle.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch76
Cathedral with Western spires: 17th cent. oil painting.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch77
Chair, armorial back, property of Dean C.A. Alington.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch78
Bench, armorial back, property of Dean C.A. Alington.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch79
Chair, armorial back, property of Dean C.A. Alington.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch80
Galilee Chapel: Bede's shrine from above. [Reuben Green no.24]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch83
Cathedral from the North with the octagonal Palace Green and the pre-Pemberton almshouses - all in the distance. [Reuben Green no.27/1]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch84
Cathedral from the North with the octagonal Palace Green and the pre-Pemberton almshouses - all in the distance. 5 x 7 Not same as Ch83
Size: [Reuben Green no.27/2] inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch85
Window by Hugh Easton of Gregory Nazianzen in W. wall of N. Transept. In memory of Basil Blackett.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch88 September 1936
Chapter House: St. Benedict window by Hugh Easton.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch89
Chapter House: St. Benedict window by Hugh Easton.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch90
Chapter House: St. Benedict window by Hugh Easton.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch94
Nine altars Chapel: south transept: Neasham cross.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch95
Deanery: four poster bed from King James's bedroom.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch96
Nine altars Chapel: south transept: Neasham cross.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch97
Neville screen and sanctuary. [Reuben Green 30]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch99
Font cover at West end. [Reuben Green, 46]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch100
Conjecture of 11th cent. Karilef's church (from E.R. Robson's
“Durham Cathedral”,
The Ecclesiologist no.149, April 1862 (new series, 113). [Reuben Green no.45]
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch102
Diagram of a flying buttress, photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch103
The Refectory undercroft looking East; from a drawing by W.G. Footitt, 1911; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch104
North choir aisle looking East; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch105
Nine altars looking East; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch106
Nave vaulting; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch107
Choir looking East; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch108
Nave triforium; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch109
Feretory; photographed for G.H. Cook. 3¼
Size: x 4 /14 inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch110
Deanery: kitchen; after a drawing by W.G. Footitt, 1911; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch111
Inside Triforium; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch112
Feretory and Nine Altars Chapel looking North; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch113
Decorated vault with supporting sculptured figures from Choir; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch114
East cloister; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch115
Dormitory looking North; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch116
Dormitory undercroft; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch117
Diagram of groin vaulting; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch118
Triforium; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch119
Deanery: kitchen roof; from a drawing by W.G. Footitt 1911; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch120
View from North nave aisle looking East; photographed for G.H. Cook.
Size: 3¼ x 4¼ inches
Digitised version EDI/Ch121*
Durham Cathedral from below Prebends Bridge looking North East.
Size: 16 x 14 inches
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EEDI/E21 June 1928
Old Elvet, Durham: Pattison's shop. Dunelm Hotel above. Client: Pattison. Possibly J W Pattinson who became Mayor of Durham in 1931. He opened the cafe after returning from war service during WW1 Reflection of the photographer has been painted
out.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Old Elvet, Durham: Dunelm Hotel. - EDI/E21 [EDI/E34]
Number not used
[EDI/E35]
Number not used
FEDI/F12
Finchale, after R.W. Billings, 1845.
Size: 5 x 7 inches
G
HEDI/H63
Harrison & Harrison, Durham organbuilders: cartoon of organ building signed CLGW or CLGH, 1914. Photographed for Harrison, November 1927.
See L. Elvin
The Harrison story (1973), where it is plate 44,
described as "Erecting the organ at Uppingham School Chapel, 1914".
Glass
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Digitised material for Harrison & Harrison, Durham organbuilders: cartoon of organ building signed CLGW or CLGH, 1914. Photographed for Harrison, November 1927. See L. Elvin The Harrison story (1973), where it is plate 44, described as 'Erecting the organ at Uppingham School Chapel, 1914'. - EDI/H63
J
KEDI/K27 [1931]
Kip Hill, Stanley, County Durham. Road Works.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
L
M
NEDI/N16 October 1924
North Road, Durham:View from Sutton Street looking towards houses on North Road. Roadworks in the foreground. The battery with canon - possibly captured at Sebastapol in 1858, in Wharton Park above. Client: Prescott
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for North Road, Durham: top end. - EDI/N16
O
PEDI/P37* July 1926
Palace Green almshouses.
Size: 12 x 14 inches
EDI/P38 July 1926
Palace Green almshouses.
Size: 12 x 15 inches
Pi: PortraitsEDI/Pi8 March 1924
Cecil Dickson Ward Davies. Matriculated from Durham in 1919. MA in 1922 and a member of Hatfield College. Went on to become vicar of St Lawerence Parish, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Ward Davies. - EDI/Pi8 EDI/Pi25 5 November 1925
Mawson wedding, at St Giles' Church, Gilesgate, Durham.
Left - right: Rev. Canon James Peter Rountree (1845-1929) and his wife Eleanor (neé Brown; 1858-1948) (parents of groom); Michael Milne-Watson (best man); Arthur Fitzgerald Rountree
(groom; born in India, lived in Oldham); Lilian Elfrieda Margarethe (Frieda) Mawson (bride); Dorothy Mary Louise (Dottie) Mawson (bridesmaid; sister of the bride; 1892-1953); Molly Rountree (bridesmaid; sister of the groom); Joseph Mawson (born at
Gilesgate, Durham; 1856-1927) and Anna Amalie Margarethe (Amalie) Mawson (neé Landt; born at Flensburg, Denmark; 1852-1935) (parents of bride; lived 10 Ravensworth Terrace, Durham).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised versionDigitised material for Mawson wedding, at St Giles' Church, Gilesgate, Durham - EDI/Pi25 EDI/Pi84 25 June 1930
Wedding of Gordon Manley of Hatfield College and the Geography department at Durham University and Audrey Fairfax Robinson daughter of Dr Robinson of Observatory House. See also Pi237, Pi238, Pi239
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Manley Robinson wedding. - EDI/Pi84 EDI/Pi96 29th April1919
Wedding of Lieutenant Thomas Archibald Johnson of the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and Dorothy Gordon Davies of Bow April 29th 1919 at St Margaret's Church, Durham see also Pi97 and Pi101.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Johnson Davis wedding. - EDI/Pi96 EDI/Pi97 29th April 1919
Wedding of Lieutenant Thomas Archibald Johnson of the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and Dorothy Gordon Davies of Bow April 29th 1919 at St Margaret's Church, Durham see also Pi96 and Pi101.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Johnson Davis wedding. - EDI/Pi97 EDI/Pi98 February 1924
Feren's family group photograph in the doorway of their home Fernhill, Crossgate Moor, Durham. Left to right Edyth Dean Ferens (nee Hill), sons Lionel Ferens, back: Henry Cecil Ferens, middle: Vernon Ferens and Edythe Lucy Ferens twins born 1912.
Far right Henry Edwin Ferens, Solicitor of 25 Market Place Durham. See also SGD.51/64-83
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Ferens family group. - EDI/Pi98 EDI/Pi101 29 April 1919
Lieutenant Thomas Archibald Johnson of the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and Dorothy Gordon Davies of Bow April 29th 1919 at St Margaret's Church, Durham see also Pi97 and Pi97 and Pi96
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Johnson Davis wedding. - EDI/Pi101 EDI/Pi109 6 September 1911
Shafto - Shafto Wedding 6 Sept 1911 Robert Charles Duncombe Shafto of Beamish Hall and Rosa Edith Marguerite Duncombe Shafto of Whitworth Park Spennymoor at Whitworth. See also Pi236 and Pi111
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Shafto Shafto wedding. - EDI/Pi109 EDI/Pi110
Guest-Williams family group. Samuel Blackwell Guest-Williams d. 1920 former 2nd master of Durham School and from 1894 vicar of Pittington , County Durham. A family portrait with his sister Elizabeth, wife Catherine, daughter Mary Elizabeth Guest
Williams, sons Richard Howard Guest Williams, Warren Kirkham Guest Williams, Alyn Arthur Guest Williams and Wynne Austin Guest Williams and the family's sleeping dog.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Guest-Williams family group. - EDI/Pi110 EDI/Pi111 6 September 1911
Shafto - Shafto Wedding 6 Sept 1911 Robert Charles Duncombe Shafto of Beamish Hall and Rosa Edith Marguerite Duncombe Shafto of Whitworth Park Spennymoor at Whitworth See also Pi109 and Pi236
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Shafto wedding. - EDI/Pi111 EDI/Pi112 3 August 1911
Rowlandson - Lace wedding 3 August 1911 at St Mary's Shincliffe. Verney eldest son of Mr and Mrs Charles K Lace of Oxton to Emily 2nd daughter of the late Colonel Rowlandson and Mrs Rowlandson of Whitwell Grange near Durham. See also Pi4, Pi5 and
Pi113
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Rowlandson Lace wedding. - EDI/Pi112 EDI/Pi113 3 August 1911
Rowlandson - Lace wedding 3 August 1911 at St Mary's Shincliffe. Verney eldest son of Mr and Mrs Charles K Lace of Oxton to Emily 2nd daughter of the late Colonel Rowlandson and Mrs Rowlandson of Whitwell Grange near Durham. See also Pi4, Pi5 and
Pi112
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Rowlandson Lace wedding. - EDI/Pi113 EDI/Pi128 October 1924
Wedding couple. Matthew Marsden and Isabel May Bowen of Milton House, Crossgate Peth, Durham. Daughter of Daniel B. Bowen confectionery manufacturer and Isabel Coates. See also Pi201, Pi233, Pi294, Pi295, Pi296, Pi300 and Pi305 ,
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Marsden/Bowen wedding. - EDI/Pi128 EDI/Pi135 19 September 1916
Constance M Morgan and James H Parker 19th Sept 1916. Wedding group photograph possibly taken in front of Houghall Hall Farm, which was in the occupation of Mr George Morgan, the father of the bride. The farmhouse was demolished in 1966. See also
Pi361
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Morgan/Parker wedding group. - EDI/Pi135 EDI/Pi148 December 1923
Large inter generational family group. Client: Clarkson. Possibly the family of John Edward Clarkson, accountant for Durham County Council at Old Shire Hall. Living at Albert Street Durham.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Clarkson: group. - EDI/Pi148 EDI/Pi169 7 November 1930
Mrs. Alexandra Constance Wells nee Cavill bride of Rev. Morley Headlam Wells a house master at Durham School married in January 1930 at Burringham Parish Church, Lincolnshire.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Mrs. Morley-Wells. - EDI/Pi169 EDI/Pi180 October 1928
Durham School: Chapel: window in memory of Edward Henry Prest, 1856-1893, and Herbert Prest, 1860-72, depicting, left King Ethelbert & right Thomas a Becket. Client: Prest
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Durham School: Chapel: window in memory of Edward Henry Prest, 1856-1893, and Herbert Prest, 1860-72, depicting, left King Ethelbert & right Thomas a Becket. - EDI/Pi180 EDI/Pi187 December 1916
Wedding of Emily Mutch of Hawthorn Terrace, Durham daughter of William and Annie and Albert Bentley of Biddick Cottages, Fencehouses (d. 7 April 1920) Client: Mutch
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Mutch: wedding. - EDI/Pi187 EDI/Pi195 November 1916
Wedding group of Edith Walton Pallister and Alfred Dowson Clarkson - possibly taken in the courtyard of the County Hotel, New Elvet. The bride has been masked out possibly for a portrait print produced by the photographer at a later date, maybe
for a memorial card for Edith, who died aged 21 in November 1918. Client: Pallister
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Pallister: wedding. - EDI/Pi195 EDI/Pi201 October 1924
Portrait of bride Isabel May Bowen of Milton House, Crossgate Peth, Durham. Daughter of Daniel B. Bowen confectionery manufacturer, Waddington Street and Isabel Coates. During her wedding to Matthew Marsden. See also Pi128, Pi233, Pi294, Pi295,
pi296, Pi300 and Pi305.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Marsden/Bowen wedding: bride, seated. - EDI/Pi201 EDI/Pi202 August 1928
Allen wedding group. Far right standing: councillor J W Pattinson who went on to become Mayor of Durham in 1931. Owner of the Dunelm Hotel and Pattison's Cafe, Old Elvet. See Pi17 and E
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Allen wedding group. - EDI/Pi202 EDI/Pi227 August 1925
Portrait of a couple. Possibly Thomas William Trenholm of Mowbray Street, Durham and his wife Mary who would have celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1925. Client: Trenholm
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Trenholm: couple. - EDI/Pi227 EDI/Pi233 October 1924
Wedding group of Matthew Marsden and Isabel May Bowen of Milton House, Crossgate Peth, Durham. Daughter of Daniel B. Bowen confectionery manufacturer and Isabel Coates. See also Pi128,Pi201, Pi294, Pi295, pi296, Pi300 and Pi305 .
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Bowen/Marsden wedding group. - EDI/Pi233 EDI/Pi236 6 Sept 1911
Wedding Group at the marriage of Robert Charles Duncombe Shafto of Beamish Hall to Rosa Edith Marguerite Duncombe Shafto of Whitworth Park Spennymoor, at Whitworth
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Shafto wedding. - EDI/Pi236 EDI/Pi238 30 June 1930
20/5 Wedding of Gordon Manley of Hatfield College and the Geography department at Durham University and Audrey Fairfax Robinson daughter of Dr Robinson of Observatory House, June 25 1930. Possibly in the grounds of Hatfield College. See also
Pi84, Pi237, Pi239
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Manley/Robinson wedding group. - EDI/Pi238 EDI/Pi241 1914
Wedding of Mabel K.V. Kift daugther of Jame Kift caretaker of the Assizes Court, Durham and George P. Wilson Organ Builder at Harrison and Harrison. Taken in front of the court buildings, Durham. One figure has had the background of the image
removed possibly to make a separate portrait image at a later date.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Kift/Wilson: wedding group, outside prison. - EDI/Pi241 EDI/Pi250 January 1938
Grave flowers January 1938 for Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto, President of Durham Divison Women's Unionst Association. Buried at St Brandon church, Brancepeth. Client: Shafto. See also Pi251
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Shafto: grave flowers. - EDI/Pi250 EDI/Pi251 January 1938
Grave flowers January 1938 for Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto, President of Durham Divison Women's Unionst Association. Buried at St Brandon church, Brancepeth. Client: Shafto. See also Pi250
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Shafto: grave flowers. - EDI/Pi251 EDI/Pi295 October 1924
Studio portrait of Matthew Marsden and Isabel May Bowen of Milton House, Crossgate Peth, Durham. Daughter of Daniel B. Bowen confectionery manufacturer and Isabel Coates. See Also Pi128,Pi201, Pi233, Pi294, pi296, Pi300 and Pi305
Celluloid
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Marsden/Bowen wedding. - EDI/Pi295 EDI/Pi296 July 1924
Wedding of Matthew Marsden and Isabel May Bowen. Possibly taken in the entrance lobby to Elvet Methodist Church, Durham. Wedding group including Leonard Bowen (second left), and Elizabeth Coates Bowen (far right) See also Pi128,Pi201, Pi233,
Pi294, Pi295, Pi300 and Pi305
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Bowen wedding group. - EDI/Pi296 EDI/Pi300 October 1924
Marsden/Bowen wedding group. Wedding group Matthew Marsden-Isabel May Bowen, outside Milton House Crossgate Peth. Far right back Daniel B. Bowen confectionery manufacturer father of bride. Far right seated Mrs Isabel Bowen nee Coates morther of
bride. Second left seated Elizabeth Coates Bowen sister of bride. Third from right back row Leonard Bowen brother of bride. See also Pi128,Pi201, Pi233, Pi294, Pi295, pi296 and Pi305
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Marsden/Bowen wedding group. - EDI/Pi300 EDI/Pi305 1924
Matthew Marsden - Isabel May Bowen Wedding - interior large family group. Isabel Bowen sitting and Daniel B. Bowen confectionery manufacturer of Waddington Street, standing far right, mother and father of the bride. See also Pi128,Pi201, Pi233,
Pi294, Pi295, pi296 and Pi300
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Bowen: wedding group. - EDI/Pi305 EDI/Pi361 19 September 1916
Wedding of Constance M Morgan and James H Parker 19th Sept 1916. Wedding group photograph possibly taken in front of Houghall Hall Farm, which was in the occupation of Mr George Morgan, the father of the bride. The farmhouse was demolished in
1966. See also Pi135.
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised material for Morgan/Parker: outdoor wedding group. - EDI/Pi361
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SEDI/S169
[no negative received]
T
UEDI/U2 1950
Durham University Union Society, June Week Inter-Varsity Debate. Back: P. Clarke (St Chad's), E.K.T. Coles (St John's), F.W. Sharples (University), A.F.M. Harford (St Cuthbert's). Middle: R.B. Lane (Hatfield), L.D. Bridgewood (St Cuthbert's),
B.W.E. Hobbs (St Chad's), J.C. Holmes (Secretary, University), D.A. Bell (Hatfield), P.D.A. Campbell (Treasurer, St Chad's), W.T. Hastings (University). Front: T. Crozier (Aberdeen), T. Egan (Manchester), D. Naylor (College Historical Soc., Trinity
College, Dublin), J.E.Harrison (President, St John's), D.G. McMillan (Cambridge Union Society), S. Thorley (Queen's, Belfast), J. Welch (London).
Size: 6½ x 8½ inches
Digitised versionDigitised material for Durham University Union Society, June Week Inter-Varsity Debate. Back: P. Clarke (St Chad's), E.K.T. Coles (St John's), F.W. Sharples (University), A.F.M. Harford (St Cuthbert's). Middle: R.B. Lane (Hatfield), L.D. Bridgewood (St Cuthbert's), B.W.E. Hobbs (St Chad's), J.C. Holmes (Secretary, University), D.A. Bell (Hatfield), P.D.A. Campbell (Treasurer, St Chad's), W.T. Hastings (University). Front: T. Crozier (Aberdeen), T. Egan (Manchester), D. Naylor (College Historical Soc., Trinity College, Dublin), J.E.Harrison (President, St John's), D.G. McMillan (Cambridge Union Society), S. Thorley (Queen's, Belfast), J. Welch (London). - EDI/U2
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X: UnidentifiedEDI/X95-107
No negative received.
EDI/X197 October 1923
Group of 2 men and 2 women: Welch. Negative missing June 2025
Size: 5 x 7 inches