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Webley-Parry papers series 5

Acc. 2680

Ref: WP/5/4

Reference: [GB 0212] WP/5/4
Title: Photograph album
Date(s): 1857-1890
Level: File
Extent: 1 item

Scope and Content:
Green photograph album that opens with views of Blaenpant and can be identified as a Blaenpant, Brigstocke album - ‘my workpeople’ (p. 7) - and many of the pictures would thus have been sent to Mrs Brigstocke by her nephews and nieces - on holidays (Mediterranean, Malta etc. pp. 18-20) and naval service (pp. 9, 24), and from India (pp. 25-7, 34-5). Images of Canada (pp. 49-54) may reflect a more distant or unreciprocated interest. Views of Llandygwydd, rebuilt by Mrs Brigstocke, and other churches (pp. 18-21, 32-3), represent a distinct strand of interest.
The photographs can be dated to the period 1857-1890.

P.1. Two views of Blaenpant, home to the Brigstockes, the upper, taken from bridge across pool, shows planting around pool and duck house, the lower the main garden front and entrance. William Owen Brigstocke (1781-1861) had married Maria Webley-Parry, who survived him by 37 years. The mansion walls are almost completely covered by creepers.
c. 1860

P.2. Upper, view of Blaen Pant mansion across lawn to south-west, the lower the Swiss Chalet, a large-hatted woman (lady) seated on the balustrade before it.
c. 1858

P.3. Two views of Blaen Pant mansion, the upper showing creepers newly planted at base of garden front, the lower has these more developed, resembling two-dimensional poplars , but yet to achieve full coverage.
c. 1855-58

P.4. Full-length portrait, ‘Anne Gabler, née Anne Webley Parry’. This image also appears on a carte de visite WP/5/1/43.

P.5. Blaenpant, ‘Alpine’ style timber bridges over pool: upper, ‘Second Bridge, Blaenpant’, taken from mansion, showing a bridge with narrow pointed arches on three stone piers; lower, ‘First Wood Bridge, Blaenpant’, taken from upper end of pool, showing a single pier bridge with wide shallow arches. The foreground of the lower photograph can be matched to that of the upper image on P.1., suggesting a date of c. 1860.

P.6. Upper, two views of Nevern church; centre, Blaenpant, garden front, creeper-covered, from across dingle, c. 1860; lower, portrait of woman slumbering over book, ‘Mrs Hope’, and Cardigan Church.

P.7. Upper, view of creeper-covered mansion, hay-makers in foreground, ‘Noyadd-Trefawr. Miss Webley-Parry’; lower, assembly of farm workers with their tools, fronted by stout man in top hat, taken in stack-yard with two ricks, one half-made, ‘My work-people - Blaenpant’ (Maria Brigstocke?).

P.8. Upper, four photographs of people, all captioned ‘Amateur’; lower, ‘Lake at Noyadd Trefawr’, lady with two boys or small menials. Of the ‘amateur’ photographs, the uppermost includes Mrs Maria Brigstocke as she appeared c. 1865, the oval image at the centre includes a distinctively whiskered Charles Webley Hope, perhaps of the early 1860s. One shows two young women in Welsh costume (see P.11 below). The younger women may be Charles’ wife and sisters.

P.9. Upper, sailing warship at anchor, most likely the 14 gun wooden hulled screw sloop Brisk, that Captain Charles Webley Hope commanded on the Australia Station in 1864-9; lower, ‘Salmon leap, Cenarth falls’.

P.10. Upper, Glanhelig, Llechryd, when newly built, it having been built in 1859 for the Misses Webley-Parry of Treforgan, Llangoedmore; lower, ‘Lizza Kewley’, possibly Mary Elizabeth, née Webley Parry (1839 - ).

P.11. Upper, ‘Cenarth Bridge, River Tifie’; lower right, two young women in Welsh costume, ‘Lizze WP, ER’, the first being the future Mary Elizabeth Kewley, née Webley Parry (1839 - ) (see P.8 above); lower left, three women, ‘ER, MP/R & E WP’, the last again Mary Elizabeth Kewley, née Webley-Parry.

P.12. Upper, ‘Llechryd Bridge, Llechryd old Church’; lower, ‘Mrs Brigstocke’.

P.13. Upper right, two young boys, one mounted on donkey, ‘Walter & Charlie Dundas’, Walter (1858-1886) and Charles (1859-1924) were the eldest surviving sons of Captain Adam Alexander Duncan Dundas (1822-1904) and Charlotte Maria née Hope; upper left, ‘Family Group’ that includes Mrs Brigstocke; centre right, a servant, ‘Rebecca’; centre, a pampas clump; centre left, ‘Emily R.’; lower right, lower left, three women dressed as Welsh women beggars, with baskets; lower centre, two young ladies, seated, ‘Ada’ and ‘Conn/Cath’. Ada could be Ada Charlotte (b. 1864), daughter of Adam Alexander Duncan Dundas and Charlotte Maria, née Hope, and the other possibly Katherine Theodora, her elder sister.

P.14. Portrait of lady, seated, ‘Eliza J. Webley Parry’ (1817 - ).

P.15. Upper, house with two figures, ‘Glanhelig, Misses Webley-Parry’, the grounds are now more established than on P. 10; lower, ‘Ancient Cromlech (Bwrdd Arthur, Llanglydwen)’, see P.18 below).

P.16. Upper, ‘Horse that swam the harbour at Portsmouth, would not wait for the bridge’; lower, ‘Favourite old horse, Blaenpant’ (with groom).

P.17. Upper right, female religious, ‘Begguin’; upper centre, print, ‘’Savanarola’; upper left, ‘Costume San Juan de Luz (near Biarritz)’; centre, mixed group seated in garden, ‘HE, ER, JS, EWEP’, the last of whom is Mary Elizabeth Kewley, née Webley-Parry; lower, three male religious of Malta.

P.18. Upper, ‘Llandygwydd Church, built 1857 (by Mrs Brigstocke)’; lower, ‘Crwmlwch near Dolwilym’, Bwrdd Arthur, Llanglydwen (see P.15 above), photograph attributed to H. Mortimer Allen.

P.19. Published photograph, ’27. The Church of St Cross’, ‘St Cross, nr Winchester’

P.20. Upper, ‘Mentone (Menton), east’; lower, ‘Villa Franca (Villefranche-sur-Mere)’.

P.21. Upper, carved last supper altarpiece, ‘at Milan’; lower, church interior, ‘St Peter’s (Priory) Church, Brecon’.

P.22. Upper, ‘Stackpool Court, Earl Cawdor’; lower, house, three ladies, two grooms and two horses, ‘Stone Pitts, Ryde, Capt. R. Brigstocke’.

P.23. Upper, ‘Inchgarvie House’, ‘Capt. A. Dundas of Dundas’; lower, ‘Lodge and entrance to Inchgarvie House’.

P.24. Exotic foliage, ‘Ferns, Tasmania, C.W.H. (?Charles Webley Hope)’ - 1864-9?

P.25. ‘C.W.W.H. and dwarf orderly’ - Charles William Webley Hope (1864-1926) when with Indian Civil Service (see 39, below).

P.26. ‘Commissioner’s house at Meerut’.

P.27. Upper, group portrait of staff identified as, ‘Syce (groom), gardener, sweepers, orderly, syce, cook, bearer …’ - Meerut Sept. 1889; lower, groom in turban holding head of horse harnessed to dog cart or similar, with man in topee, seated, identified as, ‘Binda syce, Fancy, C.W.W.H. (Charles William Webley Hope), Blaenpant, 17 July 1890’.

P.28. Mounted man in topee, ‘C.W. Hope on Bumba’.

P.29. European (seated) with Indian servants (standing), ‘Bearer, Orderly, C.W. Hope 1890’.

P.30-31. Panorama of cricket match at The Oval, ‘Land & Water’, Oct. 4th 1890’.

P.32 & 33 Upper, Llandygwydd Church bells prior to hanging, variously with dignitaries, including Mrs Brigstocke, and workmen.

P.33. Lower, published photograph, ‘Cawdor Castle, Nairn’.

P.34-5. Two views of an elaborate bungalow or mansion by Fry & Rahm of Lucknow & Naini Tahl, in the second at least 16 staff are posed outside and in the veranda, one carries a dead buck towards the house.

P.36-7. Anglican cathedral, Zanzibar, east end, exterior and interior.

P.38. Group portrait staged at opening to grand tented pavilion, Europeans, including the distinctive Charles William Webley Hope, Indian servants visible to rear.

P.39. Group portrait staged at opening to grand and ornate tented pavilion, possibly a durbar, moustachioed European men at centre, including a possible Charles William Webley Hope (with ‘dwarf orderly’, see 25, above), surrounded by bearded and moustachioed Indians.

P.40-48. blank

P.49. Montmorency Falls, Quebec.

P.50. Published photograph, ‘General view of Niagara from Canadian side’.

P.51. Notman & Sandham illustration showing raft navigating its way through the Great Victoria Bridge across the St Lawrence at Montreal, showing tube replaced in 1897-8.

P.52. View of Parliament Hill, Ottawa, site of the Parliament of Canada.

P.53. Published photograph, ‘Montreal from Mount Royal Park’.

P.54. Published photograph, ‘The Horse Shoe from above Niagara’.