On the Road. 1935.

A fortunate find from a house clearance shop, this album of 36 photographs (see the complete set here) charts a motoring holiday taken by a family and their dog in 1935. Their car numberplate indicates that they probably lived in London. They toured around the western Scottish highlands, and also visited beauty spots in Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Found Album

A £20 bargain I found in a house clearance shop in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. It contained 21 cabinet portraits and two photographs of buildings, dating from the 1870s to 1910, taken in different parts of England and Scotland, and one from San Francisco. Several individuals appear more than once. I assume it was a family album, though the content doesn't pin it down to any one locality. See them all here.

Here and there. Emigrants and travellers.

We think of the 19th century as a time when most people didn't travel as much as we do now, but evidence of long-range travel or emigration still finds its way into the flea markets. This mother and child were photographed here in England, in Hove, and then around a year later, with the baby slightly grown, in New Zealand, photographed by the Wrigglesworth and Binns studio.

The chap below appears in Davidson's studio in Edinburgh and then not long before or afterwards (it's difficult to tell), apparently wearing the same jacket, in Morse's studio in San Francisco, California. We can date this one quite accurately because Morse was active at that address from 1881 to 1884.