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By 1899,
Harry Bartram Boyd was
living and working in Hastings,
Sussex. Around 1899, Harry Boyd took over Richard Hill's photographic
studio at 52 High Street, Hastings.
By 1901, Boyd had moved to a studio at 115 High Street,
Hastings.( The photographer George Talma
had worked from 115 High Street from 1896 to 1899. In 1900, the studio
at 115 High Street had been occupied by the photographer J. D. Ablett ).
When the 1901
Census was taken, Harry B. Boyd
was living at 115 High Street, Hastings
with two of his children - Maud, aged 10, and six year old Harry junior.
Caroline, Harry Boyd's estranged wife, was working as a laundress and
living in West Ham, in the East End of London, with her three daughters,
Martha Caroline ("Dolly"), May and Lily. Harry Boyd had apparently entered into a
relationship with his servant Alice Emily Moss
(born c1880, East London ) and in the September quarter of 1900, in
Hastings, she had given birth to a child named Alice
Boyd Moss. At the time of the
1901 Census, Harry Boyd is recorded as a self-employed photographer and
is shown living at 115 High Street, Hastings with his daughter Maud, his
son Harry junior, twenty-one year Alice Moss, and her daughter, seven
month old Alice. Also living at 115 High Street was Harry Boyd's
assistant, thirty-four year old photographer, Harry John French
( born 1867, Hastings), his wife Mildred, and their six year old son,
Howard.
From 1903,
Harry Boyd was operating more than one studio in Hastings. In 1905, for
instance, Boyd had a studio at 115 High Street
in the Old Town area of Hastings and another at 21 White Rock
on Hastings' seafront. By 1906, the studios went under the name of Boyd
& Co and Harry Boyd was operating three separate studios in Hastings -
one at his home at 115 High Street,
a second at 64 High Street
and a third at 194 Queens Road, Hastings.
About 1907, Boyd closed the studio at 115 High Street, but continued to
take portraits at his two other branches at 64 High Street and 194
Queens Road.
Around 1910,
Harry Boyd sold both of his Hastings studios and moved back to London.
Some time between 1910 and 1914, Harry Boyd established a new studio at
283 Camberwell Road in South-East London.
By 1917, Harry Boyd had moved his studio to 34
Battersea Park Road, London.
He is still recorded at this studio address in 1918. Boyd might have
kept some property or business interests in Hastings, as his son, Harry Arnold Boyd
later
lived in Hastings and established his own photographic studio in the
area after 1931. Harry Boyd junior's son
Harry Gifford Leonard Boyd, known as Gifford Boyd (1917-2004)
also worked as a photographer in Hastings in the period after the Second
World War. |
[ABOVE]
No 52 High Street, the flint-faced building at the extreme right of this
photograph, was the location of Harry Boyd's first photographic studio
in Hastings. [ Photo by F. J. Parsons, 1911 ] |
