Francis Frith: Old Photos, Maps, Books and Gifts
Born into a Quaker family in 1822 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Francis Frith was a remarkable person. The story of his life and the photographic archive that is now his legacy is fascinating beyond compare. After almost being lost to bulldozers forever, the photographs his company created are an amazing and unique step back in time and now ...
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Counties: Show Modern Counties Within this Archive we use the county listings as defined in 1974, because this fits better with the classification of historic material. However, if you would prefer to view the modern-day equivalent county names you can switch between the two using this button. Modern counties include local unitary authorities ...
New Photo Releases from The Francis Frith Collection
October 2022. In this release we uploaded 1,126 photos of 623 UK places. The featured counties are Northumberland and Dyfed. Here are just a few - click here to browse them all. Of Llangrannog. Of Glen Helen. Of Whalton. Of Longhorsley. Of Wooler.
Francis Frith's early career and expeditions in the Middle East
Frith had been a founder member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853 – only 14 years after the invention of photography, 1839. Between 1856 and 1860, as a gentleman of leisure, he made three pioneering and sometimes dangerous photographic expeditions to the Middle East, taking bulky cameras, equipment and glass plates with …
Search The Archive by Year - Francis Frith
Search for photos in Britain by year to rediscover nostalgic photos, maps and books
Old Maps - Francis Frith
Stunningly detailed old maps of places you remember fondly, are important to your family history. Buy old Ordnance Survey Maps Prints, Sheet Maps and Victorian County Maps. Sheet maps have digitally re-projected and enlarged to match the present-day Ordnance Survey Landranger® series so each map is directly comparable with the corresponding ...
History of The Francis Frith Collection
To answer these and many more questions, we've put together a fascinating 48 page book detailing the Victorian Francis Frith, the archive he started and the company his legacy left behind. Compiled from in-depth company knowledge, illustrated with Frith photographs and featuring key moments in our company's 160 year history this book gives ...
About Francis Frith and our company - Welcome!
We've put together a fascinating 48 page book detailing the Victorian Francis Frith, the archive he started and the company his legacy left behind. Compiled from in-depth company knowledge, illustrated with Frith photographs and featuring key moments in our company's 160 year history this book gives readers an eye-opening account of how the ...
Handpicked Images from the Archives - Francis Frith
Victorian Whimsy. War Memorials. Windmills. Hand Coloured Photographs(498) Photos of Lost Britain(6) War Memorials(609) Britain's Coasts(315) 50s & 60s(337) London(518)
The Frith Digitisation Project - Francis Frith
About Francis Frith and our Company. The Frith Digitisation Project. Until recently only around 130,000 photographs from the vast archive of 300,000 images were available to view on the Frith website www.francisfrith.com. Cataloguing, scanning and processing the images is very time-consuming, and for many years the company concentrated its ...