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Webley-Parry papers series 5

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Reference: [GB 0212] WP/5/5
Title: Photograph album
Date(s): 1892-1900
Level: File
Extent: 1 item

Scope and Content:
Black-covered album with photographs dating to the period 1892-1900. The emphasis is on people rather than places and the predominantly young people appear to revolve around Katherine and Mary Kewley. It may be presumed that the album was assembled by Katherine in the carefree years before her marriage in 1905. There are picnics on the beach at Tresaith, views of German spas, Swiss resorts and the Isle of Wight, as well as numerous private houses, including Hazells (Northfleet), Deerhurst (Glos.), Dunhurst (Hants.), as well as Blaenpant, Noyadd Trefawr and Portsmouth Prison. There are also views taken in Southsea and Portsmouth, focussing on the house, Ravenshoe. Activities pictured include riding, golf and tennis, amateur dramatics and bicycling. The album also includes views taken of and from navy ships, presumably taken by Herbert Hope, if not by his brothers.
Loose inside from cover photocopy or similar of group photograph of Blaentpant Servants (P.5).

P.1. Centre, group posed within arch of ruin, ‘Rosenburg 1891’; either side portraits of List, Bach, Mendelsohn and one labelled Dresde 1891. Below, sentimental picture of infants.

P.2. Upper left, seven women and two men grouped around al fresco tables, the ladies are identified as, Mrs Richardson, C. Gabler, N. Jones, Miss B. …, G. Jones, Aunt B. (Brigstocke) and Miss Dyson, the men as G. Horze and Uncle William (Brigstocke), the setting as Blaenpant 1892. Upper right, group taken outdoors, again at Blaenpant, with fidgety dogs, the women are identified as, N. Kewley, C. Gabler and E. Hope, the men as, F. (Frank) Kewley, C. Hope, H. Brenchley and H. (Herbert) Hope.
Lower left, a party at Tresaith beach with picnic (1893). The women are identified as, Miss Jordan H. Jones, K. Kewley, C. Jones, … Jones, Mrs Hope, E. Hope and Mrs Jones, the men as H. Hope, P. Philips, W. Jones, G. Hope, C. Hope and J. Fenton. Lower right, picnic party from a distance.

P.3. Upper left, Lady on a bench, ‘E. Hope’. Upper centre, three women bicyclists (1895), P. Grant, B. Grant, V. Grant.
Upper right group seated on garden steps at Southsea (1894), the women are identified as, E. Hope, Mrs W. Parry, Mrs Leasmouth, K. Kewley, Mrs Hope, a man as G. Hope.
Lower left, women picnicking at Tresaith, A.P., Mrs WP, G.J., K.H., M.R. & N.J.
Lower centre, servant or individual in theatrical costume, ‘Olympic D.’
Lower right, rocks and sea, ‘Tresaith 1895’.

P.4. Upper left, ‘Gun battery �" Whale Island (Gunnery School), Portsmouth 1894’.
Upper right, three deck wooden battleship, H.M.S. St Vincent.
Lower left, three deck wooden battleship, H.M.S. Victory.
Lower right, ‘Whale Island’, view of buildings and grounds.

P.5. Upper centre, group posed at mansion doorway, ‘Blaenpant servants, 1893’
Upper left, miniature cameo portrait of girl or young woman in faux stamp, with perforations
Lower left, ‘Aberporth, 1881’, in pencil on image next to house on skyline, ‘Trecregyn’
Lower centre, little dog on hind legs on chair, ‘”Rags”, 1890’
Lower right, Party in theatrical dress, ‘Blaenpant, C.H. (Charles Hope), unidentified, J.B/D., C.B, ?D.J., 1885

P.6. Left, ‘St Peter’s and North Hill, Colchester’, 1895
Right, postcard or similar, ‘St Nicholas Church, Colchester’ (Poulton series)

P.7. Upper centre, three women seated at table placed outside mansion doorway, ‘K(atherine) Kewley’ (playing banjo or similar), M(ary) Kewley, Mrs Edmeades (knitting), Hazells (Northfleet) 1894’
Upper right, dog seated on basket chair, ‘Tim, Hazells’
Upper left, horse, saddled, ‘’”Gamester Darlin(?)”’
Lower, boy on daisy-strewn lawn, ‘‘’Dudles”, John, Nursted Court, ‘91’

P.8. Left, ‘Dedham Church, 1895’
Right, seascape with warships, ‘Manoeuvres, Blue Fleet, 1894’, these ‘four fleet’ manoeuvres were intended to model a confrontation with France and were enacted in the Irish Sea and Atlantic

P.9. Upper centre, warship underway on open sea, ‘HMS Speedwell’, a torpedo gunboat launched in 1889.
Upper right, warship at anchor, ‘HMS Blenheim’, a first class protected cruiser launched in 1890
Upper left, warship at anchor, ‘HMS Medea’, a second class cruiser launched in 1888
Lower centre, shipboard scene, port battery, ‘Blue Jackets, HMS Astrea’. Astrea was a second class cruiser launched in 1893 and first commissioned in November 1895. The hatband of one of the nearer sailors reads HMS Cambridge, this being the gunnery ship at Plymouth-Devonport between 1869 and 1907.
Lower right, shipboard scene, ‘Collier alongside, HMS Astrea’
Lower left, shipboard scene, forward gun and bridge, ‘HMS Astrea’

P.10. Upper right, beach scene, ships or islands in offing
Upper centre, studio portrait, two ladies with dogs, ‘”Sweep”, C.S., E.S., 1890’
Upper left, second timber bridge at Blaenpant, ‘Zoe J?’
Lower left, group photograph with tennis rackets in front of large shrub, ‘Blaenpant, Mrs Gower, J.D. (male), C.S. (female)
Lower centre, head and shoulders of man, ‘?P.G. Hope’
Centre right, women with dogs in studio, ‘H.B., M.K. (Mary Kewley) 1887’

P.11. Upper right, two women at waters’ edge, ‘Dunshurst Lake, M.H. K.K. (Katherine Kewley), 1895’, Dunhurst is a mansion, now a school, near Petersfield, Hants
Lower right, ‘Dunhurst Lake, K.K., Sweeps, M.H., 1895’
Upper left, empty street, ‘Wadhurst 1895’
Lower left, ‘Wadhurst Church 1896’

P.12. Two group photographs, ‘Wedding Group Blaenpant, Feb 18th 1896’, this being the wedding of George Gwinett Tyler and Constance Gabler. The bridesmaids include Mary and Katherine Kewley, several Js, possibly Jones, and the others include Frank Kewley together with sundry other Js. Mr and Mrs Gwinett Tyler are the parents of the groom). Three ‘D’ men may be Dundas, including G.D., possibly George (1868-1929), son of Adam Dundas and Charlotte, née Hope.

P.13. Upper left, upper right, four women dancing, left, ‘The Sisters …’, right, ‘Mount Guernos 1896’. The dancers are identified as K(atherine) K(ewley) D. J(ones?) M(ary) K(ewley) and L. J(ones?).
Upper centre, head and shoulder portrait of young woman, ‘Mama’, two young women in sailor suits, ‘M.J. ?N. M. 1896’, about which are cut-out female heads including, M.W., M.K., D.N., E.W. and M.K.
Lower centre, young woman in Scottish dress, ‘Wadhurst 1898, J. Maclean’
Lower left, three women at a garden door, ‘The vanishing beauties? M.K. (pencil), 1898’
Lower right, two young boys and a single donkey, ‘Blaenpant, [crossed out: Owen Hope], Bob, Herbert Hope’, in pencil, ‘Walter Dundas, Charlie Dundas’, ?1860s. Building, ‘Nursted Court, Kent’

P.14. Upper, mansion, ‘Deerhurst 1896’
Lower right, ‘The lake, Deerhurst 1896’
Lower left, two young women and dog in a hat, ‘K.K. M.K. Sweep, Deerhurst, 1896’
Two newspaper cuttings loose between pp.14-15: ‘Viscount Bridport and his bride, Miss Pamela A.M. Barker, with pages in naval uniform, c. 1932?

P.15. Upper left, ‘Statue “Apollo”, the veranda, Deerhurst ‘96’
Upper right, ‘The veranda, Deerhurst’
Lower left, ‘Deerhurst 1895’
Lower right, ‘The Lake, Deerhurst’

P.16. Man holding horse, with dog, in classical architectural setting, ‘Deerhurst, Gamester, F(rank) K(ewley), Dash, 1890’

P.17. Upper, three views of Bucklebury Church (Berks). Robert Rigby Kewley, possibly the brother of Francis, was vicar of Bucklebury, 1890-97.
Lower: three men frivolously seated on a hammock in an overgrown garden, ‘1898, R(igby) K(ewley), W.J., Blackheath; Cyclists, five women and two men, together with another machine that may belong to the photographer, ‘1898 Sandown Isle of Wight, Bicycle Picnic’

P.18. Upper, ecclesiastic interior, ‘Bucklebury’
Lower left, church of St Nicholas at Remenham (Berks). Francis Kewley was vicar of Remenham, 1878-90.
Lower, centre, porch beset by rampant ivy, ‘Old porch before it was restored, Bucklebury, 1896’
Lower, right, young woman framed by arbour in garden of large house, ‘Mary Wingfield, 1899’

P.19. Upper, large Georgian house, ‘1896, The Cottage, Bucklebury’
Centre left, man in small rowing boat, ‘L(?) Pile, Bucklebury 1896’
Centre right, view of lakeside building concealed by trees, ‘Bucklebury’
Lower, man reclining on lawn with dog, ‘1896, L(?) P(ile), the vicarage garden, Bucklebury’

P.20. Town house, ‘Villa Yvonne’, ‘May 1899, Biarritz’

P.21. Upper left, photograph of painting, ‘Storm at Biarritz, March 1897, Roche de la Vierge’
Upper right, view of great part-ruined castle, ‘Heidelberg, Germany, 1899’
Lower left, Three men and a dog, ‘W. Hope, J. Kewley, C. Gill’
Lower right, ‘Heidelberg Castle, 1899’

P.22. Upper right, Woman standing in ivy-clad doorway, ‘Ravenshoe … K(atherine) K(ewley), 1899
Upper centre, published photograph of ice tunnel, ‘Grindelwald’
Upper right, woman seated on lawn outside large house, ‘Ravenshoe, E. Southsea,K(atherine) K(ewley), 1899’ �" Ravenshoe stood at the south end of St Ronan’s Road, Southsea.
Lower left, Woman outside conservatory, ‘K(atherine) K(ewley), 1899’
Lower centre, unhappy woman mounted on safety bicycle and clinging to window, same occasion as P.30 (below), where she is identified as Katherine Kewley
Lower right, reproduction, illustration of folk tale?

P.23. Upper, published photograph, lakeside cityscape, bridge in foreground, ‘Geneve et le Mt. Blanc’
Lower left, ‘townscape with mountainous backdrop, ‘Lucerne 1897’
Lower right, lakeside view, ‘Lucerne 1897’

P.24. Four published photographs: upper left, village, with hotel, dwarfed by stupendous cliffs, ‘Lauterbrunnen’; upper right, hotel and mountain, ‘Wengerscheideck’; lower left, natural spout, ‘Trüelbachfall’; lower right, glacier, ‘Grindelwald’, entrance to tunnel centre foreground.

P.25. Upper, published photograph, ‘Hotel Monnet a Vevey’
Lower left, the dungeons of Chillon, made famous by Byron
Lower right, the castle of Chillon
Lower centre, boat on Lake Geneva

P.26. Boat on Lake Geneva

P.27. Two published photographs: left (upper), view from lake, ‘Hotel Beau Rivage a Ouchy’; right (lower), view over town with castle and churches to lake and the mountains beyond, ‘Lausanne’

P.28. Upper, published photograph, market place, mountains in background, ‘Place du Marché a Vevey’
Lower left, Neuchâtel from its lake
Lower right, group photographed seated outdoors, ‘Parc-y-gors’, presumably the house near Noyadd-trefawr. The men are identified as A.B. and H.B., the women as G.B, K.B. and V.G. Located close to Noyadd-trefawr, Parc-y-gors acted as a dower house. William Owen Brigstocke, once of Blaen-pant, was living there in 1898.

P.29. Upper, woman in carriage with man holding horse’s head, outside house, ‘Ravenshoe’ (Southsea) on gate piers.
Lower, man on horse, ‘Emsdorff’, F.W. Kewley’

P.30. Upper right, unhappy woman on safety bicycle, clinging to window, same occasion as P.22, (above), ‘K(atherine) K(ewley) 1900’
Upper centre, three women, one dog, two chairs and a palm, ‘K(atherine) K(ewley) & Sweep’, ‘J. Wells (photographer?)’, ‘M(ary) K(ewley)’, ‘Aunt Ellen (imperious), 1897’
Upper left, small dog
Lower left, two women in evening (or theatrical?) dress, ‘Janey(?) Ball (photographer?), ‘M(ary) K(ewley)’, 1898, ‘K(atherine) K(ewley)’, Southsea
Lower right, show-jumper, crowd to left, town in background, ‘F. Kewley’

P.31. Upper left, rural equestrian, ‘F. Kewley on Emsdorff’
Lower left, horse in stable yard with groom or similar, ‘Emsdorff’, ‘Lloyd(?)’
Lower right, riders with hounds, ‘J.S.H. & W… South Wales’
Upper right, seven equestrian or hunt themed snapshots: two ladies, ‘N.J.’, ‘G.M.’; ‘J.S.H. S. Wales’; ‘Sir M. Lloyd’; ‘Mr Craven’; ‘G.M., L. Craven’; ‘F.K., N.L.’

P.32. Mount Gurnos (Gernos) 1898
Upper, two images taken in front of mansion, both showing three young women, one elderly woman in bathchair and a nurse, identified, upper right, as P.J., U.J., L.J., Mrs T. and nurse. Sue Wright identifies Mrs T. as Judith Gwinett Tyler (née Parry), who died in 1907 and was an invalid in 1900. Her son was George Gwinett Tyler who married Constance Gabler.
Lower left, four young women in a row (playing imaginary trumpets?), D.J., M.J., A.P., M(ary) K(ewley)’
Lower centre, five young women in light-hearted pose, ‘K(atherine) K(ewley), D.J., M.J., M(ary) K(ewley), A.P.’ In pencil, ‘Bless you my children’
Lower right, a side-saddle piggyback race, ‘Won by a length, K(atherine) K(ewley), D.J. 1898’

P.33. Left & right, two women in night (theatrical?) attire on stairs: left, ‘[Can]’t play in your back yard, D.J., L.J. 1897; ‘Dis v. Lil’
Right.
Upper centre, portrait of Lillie Langtry, ‘Lil’
Lower centre, woman with safety bicycle in field, cows in background, ‘M.J. 1898’

P.34. Left, four people in roguish theatrical costume, ‘Forsyth Grants, Gypsey camp, Ecclesgraig’, the Forsyth Grants were the proprietors of Ecclescraig House or Castle, Aberdeenshire.
Right, two women with their dogs, part of Ecclesgraig Castle in background, ‘V(era) G(rant), Viper, ?Namey, Anna’

P.35. Upper left, neo-classical statue in grounds, ‘Ecclescraig, W. Montrose, N.B’
Upper right, two women cycling across a snow-covered park, ‘Fenella Grant, Vera Grant’
Lower right, dogs in cage on cart, ‘Otter Hounds, Tivy Side’
Lower left, dogs by a stream, ‘Otter Hounds, Tivy Side, S. Wales’

P.36. Upper, ‘H.M.S. Rodney 1899’, around this time the battleship, launched in 1884, was guardship at Queensferry (Edinburgh)
Centre, view from the bridge, ‘Rodney’s bows streaming 12 knots’, another vessel ahead
Lower left, ‘faded shipboard view, ‘H.M.S. Rodney, Jock’
Lower right, View from ship, ‘Alexandria, flagship, passing Rodney going out of Berehaven (County Cork)’. The aging battleship Alexandria, launched 1875, was flagship of the Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves, based at Portsmouth, until 1901.

P.37. Group photograph on deck of battleship, ‘H.M.S. Empress of India, Officers’, the front rank, of young midshipmen, are seated cross-legged, on a fine patterned carpet. Two non-officers can be seen in background. The Empress of India, launched 1891, served in the Mediterranean from 1897-1901, and was briefly guardship at Queensport (now Cobh, County Cork), before joining the Home Squadron.

P.38. Upper, man holding infant, ‘Charles Dundas or “Dowager”’
Left, two young children in garden, one plays with bricks
Lower, young child in garden
Right, man on horseback, woman on foot

P.39. Upper, professional photograph of presentation on tennis court by J.H. Votgt, Homburg, 1899, ‘Homburg 1899, prizes given away by Duke of Cambridge’
Lower, same or similar, ‘Duke of Cambridge presenting prize to … champion 1899’

P.40. Isle of Wight views
Left (upper), scenic view of Alum Bay Pier
Right (lower), Ventnor with Royal Victoria Pier
P.41. Upper, ‘Deerhurst Field, Hay makers, 1895’
Lower, Arcadian river scene with the Temple Island pavilion, ‘Henley on Thames, Remenham, 1880’

P.42. Upper left, man wearing scout hat and woman at house door, ‘Noyadd, E.P., A.P., 1898’
Upper right, same man feeding chickens, ‘Ned & his family!’ Ned or E.P. is presumably Sir Edward John Webley Parry Pryce, who had married Nina Katherina Angharad, daughter of David Kedgwin William Webley Parry (d.1870).
Center, view of house, ‘Noyadd, 1898’. At least some of the five surrounding photographs are also of Noyadd.

P.43. Page entitled ‘Blaenpant 1898’: five views of the house and grounds, including one of horned cattle in park and a double-exposure composite view of the house. Lower centre, cameo portrait, ‘Aunt Brigstocke’

PP.44-5. Published composite panorama, ‘Switzerland 1897’, hotel, ‘Pension Amisbühl’, and notable mountain peaks labelled, ‘Sulegg’, Schwalmeren’, ‘Blümlisalp’, ‘Morgenberghorn’, ‘Niesen’. See P.46 (below).

P.46. Man on horse and dog beneath horse, in front of mansion entrance, ‘Deerhurst, J(ohn?) H(ope?), Dash, Gamester, 1890’

P.47. Upper, distant view of mansion and grounds, ‘Deerhurst, 1897’
Lower, group photograph, eleven men in shirts and plus fours with hockey sticks and a reclining gentleman in tweeds with dog, all on daisy-sprinkled turf covered grass, ‘Hockey team, 1898, A(ugustus) B(rigstock) (heir to Blaenpant), near Castle Emlyn, S. Wales’. In background is the mansion of Cilgwyn, built from 1881, allowing the setting of the photograph to be identified as Newcastle Emlyn Castle.

P.48. Swiss mountain panorama, from same sequence as PP.42-3 (above), ‘Interlaken’, with notable peaks labelled.

P.49. Left and lower right, two published photographs of Cologne Cathedral, interior and southern façade
Upper left, donkey in tread-mill, ‘Carisbrooke Castle, old well, Isle of Wight, 1898’

P.50. Upper left, cameo of two women, their names included on the plate, ‘…. Sue(?)’
Upper center, ‘woman seated in garden with dog, ‘Florence Edwards(?) 1897’
Upper right, sketch portrait of young woman in riding costume
Lower, two photographs taken outside mansion: right, young man and woman seated on chairs; left four women seated on and around bench

P.51. Upper left, interior of church window, ‘Window in memory of Aunt Brigstockee of Blaenpant dedicated by her nephews & nieces, 1898’. The window was presumably in Llandygwydd church. The three other photographs once on this page are missing.

P.52. Upper left, lower right, domestic interiors, ‘Drawing room, Governor’s House, Milton, 1900’, a rubber plant and aspidistra can be recognized, lower right. Built in 1877, Milton, Portsmouth, was properly H.M. Prison Kingston. In 1900 the governor was George Edward Northey of Ashley, then aged 39, who was later(?) governor of Manchester Prison, one of whose children, George Anson, was born at Sydney in 1886.
Upper right, woman giving piggyback to toddler, ‘Mrs Northey & Baby, 1900’. This was Mabel Beatrice Helen, née Hunter, and her son, Armand Hunter Kennedy (b.1897).
Lower left, li’l dog

P.53. Upper center, general view, ‘H.M. Prison, Milton, Portsmouth, 1900’
Middle center, closer view, ‘H.M. Prison, Milton & Governor’s House’
Lower center, ‘group portrait, ‘Governor & staff, Mr Northey,H.M. Prison, Milton
Upper left, office interior, ‘Governor, Mr Northey, H.M. Prison’
Upper right, exterior, ‘Prison Buss’
Lower right and left, interior of prison wings, ‘Cells’

P.54. Upper, mansion, ‘Coomb (Llanybri, Carmarthenshire), South Wales, 1900’. In 1891 this was the seat of Thomas Morris (42), whose wife was Alice (39) and had two daughters, Mai A. M. (13) and Gwaldys M. K. (10).
Lower, Midgehall (nr. Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire?)
Left, woman holding horse, house in background, ‘N. H.’
Right, on lawn in front of mansion, woman, ‘M(ary) K(ewley)’, man on horseback, ‘N. P.’

P.55. Two views of The Rectory, Remenham (Berks), ‘Remenham’, in both of which tennis nets are visible.

P.56. Upper left, upper right, lower right, three scenes taken on the Homburg golf links featuring male and female players; center left and right, two views on the Homburg tennis grounds; lower left, two men at house door

P.57-8. Sequence of two photographs by West & Son of Southsea, fete or pageant in Victoria Park, Portsmouth, tower and stupas of the Town Hall, complete in 1890, visible above trees in background. At center of both man in top hat converses with woman with umbrella.

P.59. Upper, different view by West & Sons of function in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.
Lower, two views of three women

P.60. Upper and lower left, two views of South Park, Sussex, now Wadhurst College
Lower right, three women in white converse at South Park, in background men and dogcart move away.