Series: Phillip Edmund Wills Street Collection, Prints

Description

A series of 173 original prints, formed mostly of photographs taken by Street himself, but also including a number of images created from photographing the existing prints or negatives of older images taken by others. Many of the items were sorted into envelopes by site and the envelopes were labelled 'Ready for Architectural Diary' with a date.

Some of the other prints were housed in a box labelled ‘G. E. Street buildings’ which exclusively contained images of London sites associated with both G. E. Street and his son A. E. Street. These include St Luke’s Church in West Norwood, 12 Inverness Terrace in Bayswater, St John the Divine’s Church in Kennington, St Luke’s Church in Mile End, The Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand, St Mary Magdalene’s Church at Rowington Close and the Royal Military Chapel at Wellington Barracks.

There are also a number of photographs of negatives by R. F. Wills which show Bristol after it had been bombed in the Second World War and include the sites: 6 King Street, Fry’s House of Mercy, 1 – 12 Guinea Street, Redcliff Hill, Redcliff Parade West and Redcliff Parade East.

The series also contains photographs of two 18th century engravings showing Wricklemarsh House at Blackheath Park and a number of prints of Ightham Mote and Cobham College in Kent.

Additional locations include: Weir House at Millmead near Guilford, Pilgrim Wood in Artington, Surrey, Radley College in Oxfordshire and the parish churches of Beddingham, Rodmell, Iford, Telscombe and South Malling in East Sussex and Lullington in Somerset.

The negatives for the images in this series are not held by this archive and have been separated from the prints of Street photographs for which there are negatives (PEW01/02).

Content

This is part of the Collection: PEW01 Phillip Edmund Wills Street Collection

This Series contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 173

Rights

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