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  • Charles Smith Allen (1831-97), a pioneer photographer in Wales, is renowned as the finest of Tenby's early camera artists. Born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, in 1831, a few surviving paper negatives show that he was recording Tenby in silver towards the end of the 1840s. He set up business in Tenby, buying the old Assembly Rooms and building his 'Excelsior Studios' on to it. This had a fully equipped darkroom as well as a complex system of shutters and blinds which controlled the level of daylight that entered the studio. He often took photographs 'on location', having built himself a portable, horse-drawn darkroom. He also had a shop and studio, 'The Mortimer Studio', in Tredegar House, High Street, dealing in stationery, as well as a studio in Priory Street, Cardigan. Allen photographed all over Wales and this album is one of many produced by him for individual customers - in this case, a family called 'Belfield'. C. S. Allen died in Tenby in 1897. [Based on description supplied by Tenby Museum and Art Gallery]
Photographs in South Wales, by C. S. Allen, c. 1880 [front cover]
  • This whole plate camera was made by J. Lancaster and son in Birmingham c.1910. It was owned by the photographer William John of Clynderwen, who photographed the James Brothers' bi-plane flights in 1913.
William John's whole plate camera with plate and shutters, c.1910
William John of Clynderwen, photographer of the 1913 James Brothers' bi-plane flights.
  • View of Castell Coch, Tongwynlais, from the banks of the Glamorganshire Canal. Another photographer is to be seen in the foreground.
Castell Coch, Tongwynlais, late 19th century
  • A photograph of Thomas Brookman, a blind fisherman resident in Swansea in the late nineteenth century. The photograph was taken by James Andrews at the Royal Institution, Swansea. The inscription reads: ' Thomas Brookman, of 12, Fleet Street, Swansea, aged 55, was born at Newport, Mon. He has been blind twelve years, but finds his way from his home to the Fishing Grounds (The Mumbles) night or day - alone - and any part of
'A Blind Fisherman', photograph of Thomas Brookman, Swansea, 1874
  • The Reverend Calvert Richard Jones (1804-77) was a friend of John Dillwyn Llewelyn, who owned the Penlle'r-gaer estate just outside Swansea, and who was an eager practitioner of early photography. Dillwyn Llewelyn was himself a cousin by marriage to Fox Talbot, and utilised his knowledge of chemistry to further the processes with which Fox Talbot had been working. Calvert Jones followed the progress of Dillwyn Llewelyn and Fox Talbot with interest. He was originally a maritime painter, but took up the new technology of photography with enthusiasm, initially making daguerrotypes, but progressing to Fox Talbot's calotype process. He travelled extensively in France and Italy, developing his own methods for taking panoramic views, and working alongside Hippolyte Bayard, whose photographic discoveries preceded those of Louis Daguerre.
An early photograph of a rock formation, Sicily, by Calvert Jones, 1846