Research for today’s post comes from James Crouch of the Banstead War Memorial Project, who often brings us wonderful insight to the lives of our sitters of which we are incredibly grateful! Demolished around 1980, Banstead Hall was a Boys School for a century and we have several Knights-Whittome photographs of its students in our…
Archive / digitisation / double exposure / Exhibition / Glass Plate Negatives / local history / portrait / Sutton / ww2
Today’s post is written by one of our dedicated Volunteers, Margaret, who became involved with the project when she stumbled upon a portrait of her Great Aunt, Winifred Lilian Garman, amongst our collection. Upon discovering the Past on Glass project Margaret has since been a keen Negative Digitiser and Researcher and is today bringing us…
Archive / Archives / Carshalton / Creative Writing / Glass Plate Negatives / Knights-Whittome / local history / london Writers Week / Photography / School / Teaching / Uncategorized / Volunteers
This week marks the return of London Writers Week, a celebration of new writing in the UK, and also 106 years since a particular David Knights-Whittome photograph was taken of the Carshalton Convent School boys. An unlikely connection it may seem! However, as you may know, over the last year we are proud to have…
Archive / baby / child / digitisation / German / Glass Plate Negatives / Knights-Whittome / portrait / Uncategorized / WW1
Today’s post is written by our volunteer Elizabeth, who was inspired to research 4 plates titled ‘baby Sparenborg’, and unravel the lost story of a British family with German origins, living in England during WW1. It is often impossible to tell how the sitters came to have their photographs taken, and this is a key…
Archive / Archives / Banstead / Canada / digitisation / Glass Plate Negatives / Sutton / Uncategorized
Today’s post is the research of James Crouch, of Banstead Historical Society. James has contributed to this blog on a few occasions before, and his writing is a treat; beautifully bringing to life the individuals pictured in our plates. Thanks to James for sharing the story of Master C Beall with us today. Betchworth Butcher,…
In a recent post about creatively reimagining the Knights-Whittome collection through fictional writing we observed how difficult it can be to really empathise with an individual when just faced with a list of bare facts. It is not often that we are privy to a real life observation about one of our sitters than gives…
Research today, comes from our wonderful volunteer Elizabeth, who has worked hard to track down information about a lady from the collection, Ellen Munday, as well as the family for whom she worked for during the time the photograph was taken. The story leaves many questions still to be answered but certainly gives a fascinating…
She drew a breath that held her still – Looked past the brim and hid her will. But glance confess the thoughts within, A girl gleams through and brings us in. Kirsteen Coupar Miss Guinlet, 23 October 1916. Quatrain We are very excited this week to reveal the result of a wonderful collaboration between the…
Following on from Emma Bonson’s blog last week on using X-Ray to investigate blocked plates, Ellie Pierce, a conservation student at the University of Lincoln, continues our conservation series by telling us about her experience of using a Multi Spectral Imaging Microscope to investigate the plates. Thanks to Ellie for today’s piece… On Monday the…
Today’s post comes from Emma Bonson, one of our wonderful conservation team and is a follow on piece to one written by Sarah Allen back in July about delaminating emulsion on our glass plates. We’ve been very lucky to work with Sarah and Emma who have bent over backwards to try and solve some of…
With the New Year fast approaching most of us will be looking to make some new resolutions. While we can’t profess to have been as angelic as Marcia Hanbury (photographed here by Knights-Whittome c.1906), here at the project we feel overall very proud of our achievements this last year… With almost three and a…
