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From: Neil <>
Subject: Re: [STOWLIST] Arthur Bugg, Photographer
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:43:46 +0100
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I will trawl the directories some time for the dates when he was active.
Bugg took the photo of Denny Farmhouse in Combs on 3rd August 1874 which
appears on the website at www.stowmarket-history.co.uk/combs.htm
So he appears to have been active very soon after John Deazley left the
town.


Neil



Dudley Diaper wrote:

> Hello Neil
>
> Thank you for the info. on G.L. Robinson. The picture in question is
> of my great aunt Lydia Sophia Salmon as a young woman, who was born in
> 1894 and died of 'flu in 1918, hence my guess of 1912, which seems to
> fit your dates just right. I would like to know more about Arthur Bugg
> and when he was active..
>
> All the best
> Dudley
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil" <>
> To: "Dudley Diaper" <>
> Cc: <>
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [STOWLIST] Arthur Bugg, Photographer
>
>
>> Hello Dudley
>> One of my many unfinished projects is to get together information and
>> dates of the various Photographers who have traded in Stowmarket.
>> Probably the first photographer to set up in the town was John
>> Deazley, he was active in the town from about 1864 to 1871 he later
>> went to Australia and set up a photography business in Brisbane.
>> Arthur Bugg ran his photography business from a small building in
>> Finborough Road he was succeeded by a W. Milligan. George Lewis
>> Robertson started his business in 1896 in a studio behind The Little
>> Wellington public house. By 1911 the business had moved to 65 Ipswich
>> Street, The business was carried on by George's widow and children
>> after his death in 1920.
>>
>> Neil
>>
>> Dudley Diaper wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Neil and all
>>>
>>> I've been examining some of my old family photographs, carte de
>>> visite style. There are two by Arthur Bugg, of Finborough Road,
>>> Stowmarket, possibly from the 1870s, and one by G.L. Robinson of
>>> Ipswich Street, probably from around 1912. Do we know anything about
>>> these photographers? The Bugg ones have reference numbers, which in
>>> a perfect world would tell us who were the sitters, or at least the
>>> approximate dates.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>> Dudley
>>
>
>
>

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