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- 1901-1903 (Creation)
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57pp
200 photographs
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Large leather hardback photograph album complied by Middleton Biddulph containing sepia-toned photographs taken between 1901 and 1902. Mostly taken on visits to country houses around Ireland, Scotland and England, including: Charleville Castle, Tullamore, home of Lady Emily Howard Bury; Brookfield House Tullamore, home by Ernest Hamilton Browne; Geashill Castle; Kilocornan House, Clarinbridge; Annaghdown Castle; Ashford Castle; Ballyfin House; Rahan Lodge visit to Chillingham Castle, Northumberland; Dunglass; Newbrough House; a visit to Vera’s uncle, Edgar Flower in Middle Hall, Worchestershire; visit to the Flower family brewery in Stratford-on-Avon; visit to the Lakin family at The Cliff, Warwick.
The album also contains photographs of a Cake Fete at the Tullamore Tennis Ground in June 1901; portraits of tenants of the Rathrobin estate and schoolchildren from Mountbolous; a tour by the Royal Society of Antiquarians to Annaghdown, Cong Abbey, Ashford and Claregalway friary. While on a visit to Valencia, county Kerry, Biddulph also captured photographs of the recovery of the bodies of two local men and a Dutchman who was on his honeymoon who were drowned.
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Original album available to view by appointment only. Please email [email protected] for more information.
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May be reproduced in accordance with provisions of the Copyright and Related Rights Act (2000). No reproduction online, in print or broadcast without express permission of copyright holder.
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The binding is in a fragile condition, with spine partially disbound.