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Historic Photos

1. Francis Frith Company Information
2. What is the Francis Frith Collection ?

1. Francis Frith Company Information

   The Francis Frith Collection is a trademark licensed to Frith Content Provision Limited, by Heritage Photographic Resources Limited. Frith Content Provision Limited is registered in England, company number 3842886, and has registered offices at:
   
   Frith's Barn
   Teffont
   Salisbury
   Wiltshire
   SP3 5QP
   United Kingdom
   
   For further information on the Francis Frith Collection please go to their help pages at:
   
   Francis Frith Help Page.

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2. What is the Francis Frith Collection ?

   The Frith archive was founded by Francis Frith, the pioneer Victorian photographer, in 1860 and today contains over 330,000 photographs of some 7,000 towns and villages throughout Britain. Taken between 1860 and 1970 these form a topographical record of Britain without equal. The Archive provides an amazingly detailed visual record of the enormous social and structural changes which have taken place in Britain since 1860. For each town or village there is an average of 80 photographs. These were often taken from the same spot many years apart, so providing the opportunity to illustrate changes in the intervening years. While some of the photographs are undoubtedly artistically outstanding, the real value of the archive lies in its scale. There is no other archive that can illustrate this period of British history so extensively or to such a high quality.

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