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Photohistorian | Blog: https://teapaw.org/t.co/EytkkMIzOm | Instagram: @pressphotoman

Scottish Borders
Joined March 2009
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My thanks to Clare Freestone, Curator, Photography @NPGLondon for adding recent Pressphotoman research findings to the NPG website. npg.org.uk/collections/searc… npg.org.uk/collections/searc…
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(It's a fabulous book, isn't it?)
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And here's the @nufc team that won the FA Cup in 1910 and was led through the city's streets by a bagpipe band ... Full Pressphotoman story below.
As revealed by @northumbriana in his excellent new book 'Howay The Lads!' @NUFC ... The Magpies 1910 FA Cup victory parade featured a bagpipe band. A Pressphotoman piece on a Newcastle photographer from Scotland and his pipe band postcard portrait. pressphotoman.com/2026/11/02…
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As revealed by @northumbriana in his excellent new book 'Howay The Lads!' @NUFC ... The Magpies 1910 FA Cup victory parade featured a bagpipe band. A Pressphotoman piece on a Newcastle photographer from Scotland and his pipe band postcard portrait. pressphotoman.com/2026/11/02…
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'Procession of Emily Davison's Funeral' by Ferdinand Louis Kehrhahn (1883-1949). A Pressphotoman piece on the photographer who portrayed the militant suffragette campaign in postcards. pressphotoman.com/2026/10/26… Image credit: @NPGLondon x45196.
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'Procession of Emily Davison's Funeral' by Ferdinand Louis Kehrhahn (1883-1949). A Pressphotoman piece on the photographer who portrayed the militant suffragette campaign in postcards. pressphotoman.com/2026/10/26… Image credit: @NPGLondon x45196.
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'Newcastle upon Tyne: The Greatest Railway Crossing in the World' by the Photochrom Company Ltd of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. A Pressphotoman piece on this 1930s postcard and its legendary steam locomotive subject. pressphotoman.com/2026/10/19…
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'Newcastle upon Tyne: The Greatest Railway Crossing in the World' by the Photochrom Company Ltd of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. A Pressphotoman piece on this 1930s postcard and its legendary steam locomotive subject. pressphotoman.com/2026/10/19…
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4 weeks to go ... In collaboration with @historicengland I'll be presenting new research on Ursula Clark (1940-2000). For further details, visit the @cortauld website. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/unt…
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Auty & Ruddock of Tynemouth offered customers a range of high quality photographic portraits. Even the versos of their cards were high quality. Discover more via the Pressphotoman blogpost below.
Trapp & MΓΌnch of Berlin supplied albumenised paper and cardboard mounts to Victorian portrait photographers. A Pressphotoman piece on how a studio in Tynemouth, NE England used German products and printers to establish a reputation for quality. pressphotoman.com/2026/10/12…
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Trapp & MΓΌnch of Berlin supplied albumenised paper and cardboard mounts to Victorian portrait photographers. A Pressphotoman piece on how a studio in Tynemouth, NE England used German products and printers to establish a reputation for quality. pressphotoman.com/2026/10/12…
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Our third volume is out!! The stories behind the best music from 1971-72 on #islandrecords. #nickdrake #roxymusic #bobmarley #robertpalmer #traffic #stevewinwood #free #jethrotull #mountain #sandydenny
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Thank you for your support
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A pleasure to be involved this amazing project ...
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Music photographer Keith Morris (1938-2005). My photo of him features in 'The Island Book of Records 1971-72' @ManchesterUP published tomorrow. A Pressphotoman piece on 'the bench' and Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon' album @islandrecordsuk pressphotoman.com/2026/10/05…
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A camera sold by Mawson & Swan of 9 & 13 Mosley Street, Newcastle on Tyne in May 1882 to the American artist Winslow Homer. A Pressphotoman on how photography informed his artistic practice during 18 months in the Cullercoats artists colony. pressphotoman.com/2026/09/28…
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A camera sold by Mawson & Swan of 9 & 13 Mosley Street, Newcastle on Tyne in May 1882 to the American artist Winslow Homer. A Pressphotoman on how photography informed his artistic practice during 18 months in the Cullercoats artists colony. pressphotoman.com/2026/09/28…
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'The Misses Carrick' were daughters of the celebrated artist Thomas Heathfield Carrick (1802-1874). A Pressphotoman piece on Jane and Minnie Carrick's portrait and photography studio in 1860s and 1870s Newcastle on Tyne. pressphotoman.com/2026/09/21…
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'The Misses Carrick' were daughters of the celebrated artist Thomas Heathfield Carrick (1802-1874). A Pressphotoman piece on Jane and Minnie Carrick's portrait and photography studio in 1860s and 1870s Newcastle on Tyne. pressphotoman.com/2026/09/21…
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Looking forward to 'Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History' @courtauld in London in November. I'll be presenting new research on Ursula Clark (1940-2000). Book for the 3rd Annual Mark Girouard Symposium. share.google/SK7FDsDFr2YTxic…
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Looking forward to 'Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History' @courtauld in London in November. I'll be presenting new research on Ursula Clark (1940-2000). Book for the 3rd Annual Mark Girouard Symposium. share.google/SK7FDsDFr2YTxic…
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