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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Lancashire => England => Lancashire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: viddavid on Monday 23 September 24 14:28 BST (UK)
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Hello Folks, I have a damaged photograph. It was taken by Sylvester & Doran of 70 Standish....damaged bit...Wigan. Possibly Standishgate. Taken between 1900-1910. I've done a basic search of the usual places, National Archives, Directories, Newspapers, cartedevisite etc. I've found photographers moving addresses after a couple of months which is great when dating a photo but can find no trace of this studio. Any ideas ? Thanks for your time.
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Wigan Archives have a vast online collection and they may have heard of Sylvester & Doran.
Website with a Contact Us button link below:
https://archives.wigan.gov.uk/archive
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They appear on the big list of photographers at
https://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/ (https://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/)
I believe that you are supposed to contact the site to go any further. I’ve no idea how much they charge for information, I have no affiliation to the site.
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In 1908 there was a Wetton's studio at 104 Standishgate, Wigan run by Mr Maddox who had previously been at Upper Diccouson Street in Wigan, so maybe that Standishgate was becoming known for photo studios?
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In 1901 at 70 Standishgate there is a “shoemaker shopkeeper” and that fits with a newspaper advert around that time. I haven’t been able to find the address in 1911.
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This is nothing to do with your actual query BUT you may be interested to know that there is a really good website for Wigan.
https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/
If you look under 'Stuff' - on the menu, there is even an index of several local Cemetery burials.
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Thank you for all your replies.
Yes https://www.wiganworld.co.uk is an excellent site that I have been a contributor to for many years.
https://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/ is a good resource but no longer respond to queries of this kind.
https://archives.wigan.gov.uk/archive very good response to my query In 1901 at 70 Standishgate there is a “shoemaker shopkeeper” and that fits with a newspaper advert around that time. I haven’t been able to find the address in 1911.
They confirm this but have no record of Sylvester & Doran. They also recommended https://www.wiganworld.co.uk Another recommendation from archives.wigan.gov was https://rps.org/resources/researching-historical-photographers/ I will thank the wigan archive and ask that they add rootschat to their recommendations. :)