By 1892, the photographer Henry Heyden and his former landlady Annie Holden (born c1852, Billingshurst, Sussex) were living in West Brighton (Hove). Around 1892, forty year old Annie Holden gave birth to a daughter named Norah. [The birth of a "Nora Holden" was registered in the Sussex district of Steyning during the 1st Quarter of 1892]

When the 1901 census was taken, Henry Heyden, his female companion Annie, and their daughter Norah were recorded at 46 Blatchington Road, Hove. Although I cannot trace any record of a marriage between Henry Heyden and Annie Holden, the couple are entered on the census return as man and wife and Annie's daughter is listed as "Norah Heyden".

[ABOVE] Henry Heyden and his family recorded at 46 Blatchington Road, Hove in the 1901 Census

Although there is evidence that Henry Heyden was living in the area of West Brighton or Hove in the early 1890s, he is not listed as the proprietor of a photographic studio in Hove until 1897. The 1897 edition of Pike's Directory of Brighton & Hove lists Henry Heyden ( wrongly printed as "H. Hoyden") as a photographer at 46 Blatchington Road, Hove. According to local street and trade directories, Henry Heyden operated the photographic portrait studio at 46 Blatchington Road, Hove, between 1897 and 1906. Henry Heyden, who would have been in his early sixties in 1906, sold his studio to Arnold & Co, who ran the studio until around 1909. By 1911, the premises at 46 Blatchington Road, Hove, was occupied by Elizabeth Jane Wright, a shop-keeper who sold fancy goods.

I have not been able to locate Henry Heyden in the 1911 census, but presumably he remained in the Hove area after he retired as a photographer. Norah Heyden, Henry Heyden's daughter, married Henry William Breach in Hove during the 4th Quarter of 1917. The death of Henry Heyden (aged 81) was registered in the Sussex district of Steyning during the 4th Quarter of 1923.

Cabinet Photographs by Henry Heyden of Hove

By 1900, John Innes senior had sold his grocery business and retired to the Sussex seaside town of Brighton. John Innes senior's eldest son, John Weaver Innes was now working as a professional photographer in Hove, but was living at his parents' home on the outskirts of Brighton.

A photographic portrait studio had been established at 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove in 1878 by photographer Henry Joseph Spink (1838-1892). After the death of Henry Joseph Spink in 1892, the Goldstone Villa studio had been managed by his sons, but around 1897, Mrs Sarah Spink, the owner of 36 Goldstone Villas, let out the studio to a local photographer named Frank Houghton Berry (born 1852, Brighton). When Mrs Sarah Spink, the owner of the Goldstone Villas studio, died in 1899, the special arrangement between Mrs Spink and Frank Berry came to an end and the photographic studio at 36 Goldstone Villas was put up for sale. It appears that John Weaver Innes acquired the photographic portrait studio at 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove in 1899. The 1900 edition of Towner's Directory of Brighton & Hove records photographer John Weaver Innes as the proprietor of the studio at 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove. Cabinet portrait photographs produced at the Goldstone Villa studio between 1899 and 1900 carry the name of J. Weaver Innes. However, in 1900, after operating alone at the Goldstone Villa studio for about a year, John Weaver Innes entered into a business partnership with Henry Bate (born 1863, Marylebone, London).

Henry Bate, John Weaver Innes' new business partner, was born in Fitzroy Square, London, in 1863, the son of Elizabeth Stapleton and Samuel Bate, an engineer and gunsmith from Devon. Henry Bate had followed his father into the gun-making business and when Samuel Bate died in 1888, at the age of 56, Henry Bate took over his father's workshop in the Essex town of Maldon. At the time of the 1891 census, Henry Bate was recorded as a "Gun & Bicycle Maker" at 11 Market Hill, Maldon, Essex. Two years later, Henry Bate married Sarah Annie Barbara Chappell (born 1871,Edmonton, Middlesex), the daughter of Mrs Sarah Chappell of Edmonton. [ The marriage of Henry Bate and Sarah Annie Chappell was registered in the Essex district of Epping during the 3rd Quarter of 1893]. Henry Bate's wife Sarah (known as "Annie") gave birth to two children - Elsie Gladys Bate (born 1894, Maldon, Essex) and Aubrey Claude Bate (born 1896, Maldon, Essex) before she moved down to Brighton with her husband around 1900.

Photographic portraits produced at the Goldstone Villas studio in the first few months of 1901 carried the trade plate of Innes & Bate, but, by early Spring, the partnership between John Weaver Innes and Henry Bate had come to an end. A notice in The London Gazette published on 31st May 1901 announced that the firm of Innes & Bate, photographers at Hove, had been dissolved by mutual consent on 25th March 1901. The photographic business at 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove was retained by Henry Bate, who remained in business as a photographer at the Goldstone Villas studio until the outbreak of the First World War.

When the census was taken on 31st March 1901, John Innes senior, his wife Ellen and their eldest son, John Weaver Innes, were recorded at 36 Beaconsfield Villas, Preston, Brighton. On the census return, John Weaver Innes, an unmarried man of 38, is described as a "Photographer (Employer)", yet by this date he had given up his interest in the photographic studio at 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove.

[ABOVE] The trade plate of  John Weaver Innes of The Studio, 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove (c1900).

[ABOVE] A recent photograph of 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove (2005). This building was used continuously as a photographic portrait studio between 1878 and 1914. Originally owned by Henry Joseph Spink, the Goldstone Villa studio was taken over by Frank Houghton Berry around 1897. The studio was sold to John Weaver Innes  in 1900.

[ABOVE] The announcement of the dissolution of the business partnership between John Weaver Innes  and Henry Bate "carrying on business as Photographers at Hove, in the county of Sussex, under the style or firm of Innes and Bate", as published in The London Gazette on 31st May 1901. John Weaver Innes  had been joined by photographer Henry Bate (born 1863, London) at 36 Goldstone Villas, Hove, at the end of 1900. The partnership of Innes & Bates was dissolved by mutual consent on 25th March 1901.

Cabinet Portaits by John Weaver Innes of Hove

[ABOVE] A cabinet card portrait of a young woman, photographed by John Weaver Innes of Hove (c1900).

[ABOVE] A family group portrait, photographed by John Weaver Innes of  'The Studio', Hove (c1899).

John Weaver Innes - Photographer in Davigdor Road, Hove

By 1905, John Weaver Innes had established a photographic studio in Davigdor Road on Hove's Wick estate. It appears that J. Weaver Innes' parents, John Innes senior and Mrs Ellen Jane Innes, had moved from Beaconsfield Villas in the Preston district of Brighton to a house called "Alfrada" in Goldsmid Road, Hove. The Innes family had moved to Goldsmid Road at a time when this part of the Wick estate was being developed for residential housing. Within a few years, the western end of Goldsmid Road had been absorbed by Davigdor Road. In 1904, the studio address of John Weaver Innes was given as "Alfrada", Goldsmid Road, Hove, but by the time Kelly's Brighton Street Directory was published in 1905, John Weaver Innes was being listed as a photographer at "Alfrada", Davigdor Road, Hove. The trades section of the 1907 edition of Kelly's Directory of Sussex records John Weaver Innes as a photographer at 7 Davigdor Road, Hove. The location of John Weaver Innes' photographic studio had remained constant at a site between Osmond Road and Julian Road to the west of Goldsmid Road, but rapid housing development in the area had meant that the Hove photographer's studio address had to be changed three times between 1904 and 1907.

John Weaver Innes was in business as a photographer at his parent's house in Goldsmid/Davigdor Road between 1904 and 1915. Early in 1911, the photographer's father, John Innes senior, died in Hove at the age of 72. When the census was taken on 2nd April 1911, John Weaver Innes was recorded at 7 Davigdor Road, Hove with his seventy-six year old mother Mrs Ellen Jane Innes and her companion and servant, Helen Hoath. At the time of the 1911 census, John Weaver Innes was a forty-eight year old bachelor, working as a photographer at his mother's house in Davigdor Road. During the 3rd Quarter of 1912, John Weaver Innes' mother, Mrs Ellen Jane Innes died at the age 77. The following year, fifty year old John Weaver Innes married his late mother's companion Helen Hoath, who was then probably in her thirties. [The marriage of John Weaver Innes and Helen Hoath was registered in West Sussex district of East Grinstead during the 4th Quarter of 1913].

John Weaver Innes probably inherited his late mother's house at 7 Davigdor Road, Hove and he continued to operate as a photographer at this address until 1915.

John Weaver Innes died in Hove during the First Quarter of 1928 at the age of 65.

John Weaver Innes - Photographer in Davigdor Road, Hove between 1905 and 1915

[ABOVE] An Edwardian map of the St Ann's Well Gardens district of Hove, showing Davigdor Road to the north of The Chalybeate Spring in the gardens on the Wick estate, which in the 19th and early 20th century belonged to the Goldsmid family. The financier and philanthropist Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859) purchased land on the Wick estate in 1830. Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid made his home at Wick Lodge and created the gardens to the north of Furze Hill. Originally known as The Wick gardens, the parkland around the Chalybeate spring was re-named St Ann's Well Gardens towards the end of the 19th century. When the Wick estate was developed into a residential housing area at the end of the 19th century, the roads and streets were named after members of the influential Goldsmid family who owned the Wick estate. Goldsmid Road, which had been laid out in the 1840s, was named after Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859) and Davigdor Road was named after Sir Isaac's daughter and son-in-law, Rachel and Solomon D'avigdor Goldsmid. Osmond Road derived from Sir Osmond D'avigdor Goldsmid (1877-1940), the great grandson of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid and Julian Road was named after Sir Isaac's grandson Sir Julian Goldsmid (1838-1896). The Hove photographer John Weaver Innes operated from No. 7 Davigdor Road [marked by a red dot on the map] which was located between Osmond Road and Julian Road.

At the time of the 1881 Census, George Johns senior and his new wife 'Pheby' were living at 27 Somerset Street, Bedminster, Bristol with their 4 children - Albert Tom (aged 16), a carpenter's apprentice, Harry, a 10 year old school boy, 8 year old Jane, also at school, and 15 year old George Amos Johns, described on the census return as a "Photographer's Assistant".

On 10th April 1887, twenty-one year old George Amos Johns married Rose Courtice (born 1865, Bedminster, Bristol) at St John's Church, Bedminster. Rose Courtice was a former school teacher, the daughter of Sarah and John Courtice, a 'Spring Maker' of Bedminster.

Shortly after his marriage to Rose, George Amos Johns moved with his wife to Hove, where he had found employment as a photographer in a local studio. Rose and George John's first child, Violet Rose Johns, was born in Hove early in 1888. The 1891 Census records George Johns and his family at 8 Brooker Street, Hove. On the census return, George Johns is described as a 25 year old "Photographer (Employed)". After a period working as a photographer in a local studio, George Johns established his own photographic studio at 67 Upper Westbourne Villas, Hove. George Johns is listed as a photographer at 67 Upper Westbourne Villas in the 1896 edition of Pike's Directory of Brighton & Hove but his name is incorrectly given as "G. Jones". George Johns ran his own photography business at 67 Upper Westbourne Villas for only a couple of years. George Johns is listed as a 'Photographer' in the trades section of Pike's Directory of Brighton & Hove in 1897, but he is not mentioned in the list of 'Photographic Artists' which appeared in Towner's Directory of Brighton & Hove published in the following year.

Although he was no longer a studio proprietor, George Amos Johns continued to reside at 67 Upper Westbourne Villas, Hove, for the next 5 years. Both of George Johns' sons were born at his home in Westbourne Villas - Arthur George Johns in 1893 and Reginald Courtice Johns in 1898. When the census is taken on 31st March 1901, George Amos Johns is still residing with his wife and family at at 67 Upper Westbourne Villas, Hove, but he informs the enumerator that he is now a "Photographer (Worker)" rather than an employer.

By 1910, George Amos Johns was living with his wife and family in Eastbourne. [George and Rose Johns' daughter, Violet Rose Johns, had married school teacher James Wakely in Eastbourne during the 3rd Quarter of 1910].

When he completed his Census Return form on 2nd April 1911, George Amos Johns was living at 44 Victoria Drive, Eastbourne, Sussex, with his wife Rose and their two sons - Arthur George Johns, an 18 year old "Photographer's Apprentice" and 12 year old Reginald Johns. On the 1911 Census form , 45 year old George Amos Johns declared that he was employed as a "Photographer's Manager".