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Brackenbury Family at Peveril Castle, Castleton, 1921
Image ref
DCHQ009322
Credit
Austin Brackenbury
photographer
Brackenbury, John Hartley
ImageDate
1921
Location
Peveril Castle
Town
Castleton
About this image
Pictured at Peveril Castle are Annie (second left), Albert Berwick holding baby John, son of John and Amy (nee Berwick) Brackenbury and far right Ada: all named brother and sisters of Amy Brackenbury.
A quarter plate photograph by John Hartley Brackenbury from Sheffield.
This comes from a set of 14 photographs of Derbyshire, copied by Austin Brackenbury in 2008/9, direct from an album prepared by his parents in 1921. They are a collection following a visit from America of his mother's brother, Albert Berwick and his American wife; Albert was in the American Army. For reasons unknown, the album was never sent to Mr and Mrs Berwick and remained in the possession of Austin's parents.
The photographer used a quarter plate camera on tripod, using the traditional black cloth to focus the image on the ground glass screen, getting someone else to press the release if he wanted to appear in the photograph himself.
The infant son, John (Jack) was one year old in this photograph.
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