Andrew W Gill

Ballyclare is a market town between Belfast and Larne in Northern Ireland which holds an annual street fair. The May Fair was traditionally a horse trading fair and a ‘hiring’ fair, where employers hired farm labourers and domestic servants. In 1888, a series of remarkable photographs was taken of t...

The magic lantern was the Victorian predecessor of the pre-digital slide projector. By 1914 it was considered to be very old fashioned. Despite this, during and after the First World War, thousands of photographic slides of the battlefields and the home front were produced by the British War Office ...

In 1876, Sarah Jane Gitsham toured Scotland in just six days, starting and finishing in Edinburgh. She travelled by horse-drawn coach, train and boat visiting Perth, Callander, Loch Lomond, Glasgow, Rothesay, Oban, Inverness and Pitlochry with many excursions to places of interest. During the journe...

At the end of the 19th century, Whitby was one of the most photographed towns in England because of the remarkable pictures taken by local photographer Frank Sutcliffe. Although photography was sixty years old by then and portrait studios were commonplace in our towns and cities, only a handful of B...

The forty one photographs in this 24 page booklet are from the Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive, a remarkable collection of historical images taken from ‘magic lantern’ projection slides and early photographs. They are a miscellany, a hotch-potch, covering all three Ridings and a little bit of Lan...

In 1908, an international exhibition was held in London. The site was near Shepherd’s Bush and later became known as ‘White City’ because all of the Pavilions were painted white. The Exhibition was a combination of a travel and trade show and theme park, with educational displays, amusements and att...

Jersey, the largest and most populous of the Channel Islands, with its mild climate and French influences, was as popular with holiday-makers one hundred years ago, as it is today. Detailed guide books were available to help tourists make the most of their visit, with detailed information on everyth...

The Channel Islands, with their mild climate and French influences, were as popular with holiday-makers one hundred years ago, as they are today. Guide books were available to help tourists make the most of their visit, with detailed information on everything they could possibly want or need to know...