Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
ADX/1579: The Hallworth Album

Acc. 3607

Ref: ADX/1579

Reference: [GB 0212] ADX/1579
Title: Photograph album of the Hallworh family
Date(s): Early 20th c.
Level: Fonds
Extent: 1 vol and seven loose items.
Scope and Content: Photograph album of the Hallworth family.

Thomas Hallworth was born c. 1878 in Hyde, Cheshire. In the 1901 census he was a coachman (domestic), whilst his 64 year old father, William (m. Catherine, 61) was an agent for a life insurance company and his younger brother John worked in an iron foundry. On 3 February 1903 Thomas married Edith Clarkson, who had been a seamstress in lodgings, also in Hyde. Their daughter Annie was born c. 1905.
By 1911 the family were living in Cardiganshire at Gwynfryn Cottages, New Cross, Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, near Penywern mansion, and Thomas was now a chauffeur (domestic), his employer in 1915 being Dr Roberts of Penywern.
Thomas was conscripted in August 1915 and was assigned to the Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport. By June 9 the following year, when his portrait appeared in the Cambrian News, he was serving in the East.
The Hallworths had a draper's shop at 22 Bridge Street, Aberystwyth (now the Wash'n Spin'n Dry launderette), and the Eagle Garage at the top end of nearby Gray's Inn Road, the doors of which still remain. The drapery business is listed in Kelly's Directory of 1922.
The Hallworths eventually moved to a house in upper Buarth Road which they named Antomede, this being a combination of their first names. This charming name has by now been replaced with Seren y Wawr.

Album cover

The album

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P.1. Hallworth's shop at No. 22 Bridge Street, Edith Hallworth in doorway and sign for the Eagle Garage; the Hallworths promenade in an unidentified location. c. 1920-1930

Hallworth's drapery shop

Thomas and Edith Hallworth

P.2. The Hallworth family at Gwynfryn and the garden there, pre-war; Thomas at the Eagle Garage; Edith at the draper's shop. c. 1910-1915

At Gwynfryn

Eagle Garage

The draper's

P.3. 'Best Wishes "Dad", Thomas Hallworth posed informally in a roadway; a charabanc party outside the Devil's Bridge hotel; Edith on a pebble beach; Edith and Annie promenading down an unidentified shopping street. c. 1920-1930

Thomas Hallworth

Charabanc party, Devil's Bridge

Edith Hallworth

Edith and Annie

Edith and Annie

P.4. The Hallworths in the back garden of the Buarth Road house, University Chemical Laboratory in background; the Buarth road house, first with Annie in the doorway, then with the Hallworths. c. 1939

At Buarth Road

At Buarth Road

At Buarth Road

P.5. Mrs Hallworth seated in deckchair in front of tin building (holiday cottage?) with collie-type dog; Mr and Mrs Hallworth and friend on girder bridge; Mrs Hallworth and Annie, daring in trousers, promenading in an unknown seaside town; Mr (and Mrs?) Hallworth and car, possibly the Morris Saloon purchased in 1937 (below); the Hallworths, with setter type dog, in the Buarth Road garden. c. 1920-1940

Edith and dog

The Hallworths on a bridge

Edith and Annie

Thomas Hallworth and car

Buarth Road, in the garden

P.6. Three further photographs of the Hallworths and dog in their garden, one including Annie who presumably took the remaining pictures. c. 1930-1940

Buarth Road, in the garden

Buarth Road, in the garden

Buarth Road, in the garden

P.7. Photographs from Egypt, WWI period: Thomas dressed for bathing, seated on rock beside the sea, 'Rasel tin Camp, Egypt'; Thomas in uniform with his motor ambulance; three servicemen posed beside ambulance in front of neoclassical, Egyptian-style building: most ambulances in these photographs appear to be based on the Model T Ford chassis; Thomas and his ambulance in front of ornate building, nurse with suitcase approaching. 1916-1918

Thomas Hallworth in Egypt

In Egypt

In Egypt

In Egypt

P.8. Egypt continued: Thomas and comrade, both with pith helmets, with ambulance on sea front; Thomas and comrade seated in back of ambulance at entrance to neoclassical building; Thomas with ambulance, ornate building behind; four servicemen, all smoking, seated on ambulance; Thomas in garden, standing next to large exotic plant. 1916-1918

In Egypt

In Egypt

In Egypt

In Egypt

In Egypt

P.9. Photographs of EJ 3051, a 15hp blue Morris Oxford saloon registered in 1931 for private use to Thomas Hallworth of 22 Bridge Street (Thomas purchased another Morris saloon, EJ 5558, in 1937). The pictures were all taken in a rural location, one features Thomas Hallworth, another a younger woman, who might also be recognised in photographs of the 1925 Singer and the 1939 Standard (below). c. 1931

EJ 3051

EJ 3051

EJ 3051

EJ 3051

P.10. Photographs of EJ 1384, a 10hp grey Singer registered in 1925 to Janie Marjorie Fossett Roberts of Tynlone, Rhydfelin. Taken in variety of locations, the pictures show both Hallworths behind the wheel, passengers including Annie and another young woman, (also seen in photographs of the 1931 Morris Oxford and the 1939 Standard). 1925-1931

EJ 1384

EJ 1384

EJ 1384

EJ 1384

P.11. Photographs of EJ 6375, an 8hp grey Standard tourer registered to Selwyn John Walton of Buarth Road in 1939. Selwyn married an Anne Morgan in 1938 and given that Annie Hallworth had married a Henry Morgan in 1928, he may have been her second husband.
In three of of the four pictures Annie is behind the wheel, once with her mother as passenger, once with the young woman who can also be recognised from photographs of the 1925 Singer and the 1931 Morris Oxford. The absence of Selwyn John is somewhat puzzling, although he could have been the photographer. 1939 or later

EJ 6375

EJ 6375

EJ 6375

EJ 6375

Loose prints, c. 1925-1940

1. Tennis club group photograph, including a youthful Annie Hallworth, taken at the North Road pavilion, College Hall, destroyed by fire in August 1933, in background.

Tennis Club group photo

2-3. Two photographs of a group of four, including a rather older Annie Hallworth and another woman (also appearing on [1]), taken at the North Road courts.

Annie and friend at the Tennis Club

Annie and friend at the Tennis Club

4-5. Two snapshots of trios: Annie, another woman from [1] and two men, one also seen in [1], all seated on deck chairs at what appears to be a rural tennis ground.

Annie and friends en plein air

Annie and friends en plein air

6-8. Three snapshots, groups of four, six and eleven women tennis players (incl. Annie), at least two taken at the North Road courts.

Four women tennis players

Six women tennis players

Eleven women tennis players