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Webley-Parry papers series 5

Acc. 2680

Ref: WP/5/6

Reference: [GB 0212] WP/5/6
Title: Photograph album
Date(s): 1892-1900
Level: File
Extent: 1 item

Scope and Content:
Red album containing photographs taken around the turn of the century, the only date given being 1902. It opens with views of Garron Towers, Antrim, includes pictures of the Caruth family of Ballymena, and elsewhere portrays ‘Ned’ (Edward John Webley-Parry-Pryse), the Tivyside hounds, various horse, a comical croquet match and some colonial scenes, and ends with views of Noyadd Trefawr. The album has a masculine feel altogether different to the enthusiasm that attended the Kewley girls, neither does it have the naval component associated with Herbert Hope.

P.1. Upper right, castellated mansion, ‘Garron Towers, Co. Antrim’. This was the seat of Charles Vane-Tempest Stewart (1852-1915), Marquis of Londonderry 1884-1915, who married Mary Cornelia, daughter of Sir John Edwards of Plas Machynlleth. The house was sold as a hotel in 1915 and is now a school.
Upper left, family group photograph taken in garden of large house, ‘Craigie Warren, Ballymena’ (same session as P.6. upper right)
Centre, man in street outside timbered building, ‘Chester’
Lower right, castellated mansion, ‘Garron Towers’
Lower left, three men, two wearing bowler hats, one, older, holding panama, and a boy (in cap), outside mansion, identified as, ‘J(ames) C(aruth), G(eorge) C(aruth) (boy), A. C., B. S., Garron Towers’ (same persons as P.2 center and same occasion as P.6 lower left)

P.2. Upper right and left, two views of church identified as, ‘Abbotsleigh, near Clifton (Bristol)’, both featuring woman in hat.
Centre, the three men and boy grouped around gravestone, ‘The dog’s grave, Garron Towers’ (same persons as P.1 lower left; P6 lower left)
Lower left, castellated mansion, ‘Garron Towers’
Lower right, mansion, ‘Penylan reversed, S. Wales’. This is Penlan, Llandygwydd (Card.), home of the Jones, descendants of Morgan Jones, who had married a Stewart and rebuilt the house.

P.3. Upper, family at cottage or farmhouse door, ‘Orleton, Herefordshire’
Centre left, barn(?), ‘Orleton’
Lower, looking up garden path to family grouped at cottage or farmhouse door, ‘Orleton’
Center right, timbered building, ‘Chester’ (negative loose, P.8)

P.4. Upper left, men and dogs, ‘Terriers of Tivyside pack of foxhounds’
Upper right, mounted men and dogs outside house, ‘Tivyside Foxhounds at Noyadd with W, George, huntsman’ (same occasion as P.8 lower right)
Centre, group photograph taken in kennels yard, ‘Capt. Pryce, M(aster) of H(ounds) & establishment’
Lower left, woman and horse, ‘Angharad & Blackie aged 26’
Lower right, woman and horse, ‘Angharad & Bessie aged 28’, presumably Nina Katherina Angharad, wife of Edward John Webley-Parry-Pryse (‘Ned’)

P.5. Upper left, man and horse, ‘W. George & hunter’
Upper right, horse, ‘Scarsdale Rocket’
Lower right, boy and horse, ‘Chesnutt’
Lower left, man and horse, ‘Ned with Pentre Boy’
Centre, men and dogs, ‘Ned Pryce, W. George & terriers’

P.6. Upper left, four children in a row, seated cross-legged on a lawn, ‘Hardy family, Cashel’
Upper right, family group, ‘Graigie Warren’ (same session as P1. upper left)
Centre, Girl posed with safety bicycle, ‘Dolly Caruth’
Lower right, boy on bicycle, ‘George Caruth’. This may be George Bells (b. 1891), son of James Caruth of The Grange, Galgorn Rd., Ballymena, and by 1936 a solicitor, whose second daughter, Rose, married a Captain R. M. Pryde.
Lower left, three men and a boy outside mansion (same persons as P.2 center, same occasion as P.1 lower left), the boy is George Caruth, the man to his right is his father, James, that to his left is probably an uncle.

P.7. Upper left and center, a game of badminton, ‘Bell v. Ingram, Mombasa (Kenya)’
Upper right, family group, ‘(?James) Caruth & family’
Lower right, a croquet game, ‘Moelygarnedd, Bala’
Lower right, three croquet players, ‘Charlie, Jones (a minister), ?Owen Jones, Moelygarnedd

P.8. Loose, negatives for P.3 centre right & landscape view with house in background
Upper left, beach with rocks, ‘Llangrannog, S. Wales’
Upper right, faded image of horse, ‘Chestnut, Ballymena’
Centre left, man on horse, ‘Penylan’
Centre right, beach scene, ‘Carreg Bica, Llangrannog’
Lower left, figures emerging from the sea, ‘Mermaids, Llangrannog’
Lower right, mounted men and dogs outside house, ‘Teifyside Foxhounds’ (at Noyadd) (same occasion as P.4 upper right)

P.9. Upper left, two rustics, ‘James Jones & wife, Llangranog’
Upper right, two rustic old men, ‘?Barry Fowler, José’
Center left, woman and girl outside cottage
Centre right, crowed scene in farmyard, ‘Pigeonsford sale. Thomas Evans’
Lower left, man and donkey, ‘Pigeonsford donkey’
Lower right, beach picnic, ‘Penbryn, 1902’

P.10. Upper left, in farm or stable yard, ‘Thomas Evans, Pigeonsford sale’
Upper right, family seated on boat by Mr & Mrs Lutyens & family, Llangranog’
Centre left, women in small boats, ‘Coracles, Penylan’
Center right, group portrait of servants, including one wearing kilt, ‘Penylan’
Lower left, stable yard Penylan
Lower right, two women with dog, one woman holds a croquet mallet, the other a small box camera.

P.11. Upper left. Man in garden chair
Upper left, same man as previous, seated as before, with three children, two girls and a boy
Lower left, unidentified house, in front of which man and girls from previous may be recognized
Lower right, outside group, two mustachioed men in bowler hats, possibly the Caruth brothers of Ballymena, one with woman with hat and small boy, and another couple.

P.12. Upper left, party of children on beach with shrimping sets
Upper right, faded image, the beach at Llangrannog, carriages parked beside the strand
Center left, sailing boat or yacht seen from beach
Lower right, man asleep on deckchair (at sea?)
Lower left, native troops on parade with colours, wearing fezzes, possibly the King’s African Rifles

P.15. Loose, view of ornamental lake at Noyadd Trefawr and two views of gravel walk with balustrade