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Title
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Alice Longstaff - Gallery collection
Subject
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Classic images of Hebden Bridge and district.
Description
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Alice Longstaff (née Speak) (d. 1992 aged 85) was a remarkable lady. Born at Little Lear Ings farm in Heptonstall on May 16 1907, she started work at 14 years old, in September 1921, as apprentice photographer at the Westerman Studio, 25 West End, Hebden Bridge. Crossley Westerman had established the studio in 1890; on his death in 1918 his daughter Ada took over the business, and it was Ada who trained the young apprentice. Alice remained there for the next 70 years. In 1935 she and her family bought the business, and her brother Clement became the framer and darkroom technician, until he died in 1963. In 1935 Alice married John Longstaff who joined the business as picture framer when Clement died, and they continued to work together until her death in 1992.
0ne of the most frequently-asked questions about the Longstaff Collection is why was it named after Alice, when so many of the photographs in the archive are credited to her predecessor Crossley Westerman?
Alice's Album - The Story of a Hebden Bridge Photographer's Studio, has the answer and much more! Copies are still available from local bookshops and online from Hebweb. This 68-page high quality soft-back lavishly illustrated with photographs in colour, sepia and black and white, it tells the story not only of Alice but of Crossley Westerman and his daughter, Ada, too, without whom there would be no collection.
Founder of the studio in the early 1890s, Crossley Westerman could have had little inkling of the amazing retailing tradition he had set in motion, ending only with the death, 100 years later, of Alice Longstaff who took over in 1935.
It's amazing enough for a business to survive for around a century but for it to be in the hands of only three proprietors makes for a fascinating story which "Alice's Album" tells from beginning to end.
Rights
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Copyright (c) 2006-2017 Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Creator
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Alice Longstaff and her predecessors.
Publisher
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
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ca. 1890 - ca. 1990
Language
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English (U.K.)
Coverage
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Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire
Type
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Documentary Photograph
Identifier
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ALC
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Regent House, New Road, Hebden Bridge, c1910 - ALC00854
Subject
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Bridge Gate, Buildings, Cobbles, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, Houses, New Road, Places, Retail, Road, Shop, Shops, Street Names, William Holt, Zachariah Spencer
Description
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Flower gardens fronted the busy Burnley Road before the road was widened in 1931, which necessitated the demolition of the building on the left fronting onto Bridge Gate; it was replaced with a shop on the truncated corner, now Holt’s greengrocers. The houses shown here date back to 1806, when New Road was constructed. Before that a school stood on the site. Zachariah Spencer, Seedsman and Florists, had the corner shop for many years, after which is was Russell Dean Carpets and Curtains.
Source
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Publisher
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
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2011-11-28T10:30:34Z
Rights
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PHDA - Alice Longstaff Collection
Relation
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Format
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TIFF file 8-bit
Language
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English (U.K.)
Type
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Documentary photograph
Identifier
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ALC00854.tif
Bridge Gate
Buildings
Cobbles
Crown Street
Hebden Bridge
Houses
New Road
Retail
Road
Shop
Shops
Street Names
William Holt
Zachariah Spencer
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Title
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Alice Longstaff - General Pictures
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Hebden Bridge - Crown Street - ALC00351
Subject
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Buildings, Crown Street, Florist, Hebden Bridge, New Road, Places, Retail, Seedsman, Shop, Shops, Street Names, Zachariah Spencer
Description
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The junction of Crown Street and New Road. Spencer's building on the left was demolished and the gardens also removed when New Road was widened in the 1930s. The opening on the right is now Holt's yard.
Source
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Publisher
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Rights
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PHDA - Alice Longstaff Collection
Relation
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Format
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TIFF file 8-bit
Language
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English (U.K.)
Type
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Documentary photograph
Identifier
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ALC00351.tif
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1930s
Buildings
Crown Street
Florist
Hebden Bridge
New Road
Retail
Seedsman
Shop
Shops
Street Names
Zachariah Spencer