Commercial photographer wigan/lancashire

[viddavid]

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.

[haliared]

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

[AlanBoyd]

They appear on the big list of photographers at

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.

[haliared]

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?

[AlanBoyd]

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.

[Pennines]

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.

[viddavid]

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.