Norfolk: Living Memories (Francis Frith Collection) - Frank Meeres

Francis Frith started his photographic business in the 1870s, seeing an opportunity to sell souvenir photographs to holiday visitors.  He soon employed teams of photographers around the country and soon started producing postcards.  After his death in 1899, his sons, and later his grandson, took on and developed the business.  The business continued until 1969 when it finally closed, but the amazing archive of over 300,000 images was saved, and now, almost 50 years later is in the final stages of being digitized and made widely available through the publications and websites of The Francis Frith Collection.

Norfolk life and landscapes within living memory are recorded in these pages, lavishly illustrated with high-quality historical photographs mainly taken in the 1950s and 60s, revealing the changing face of everyday life and places in the not-so-distant past, in the era before shopping precincts, motorways and out of town developments.

Places featured include:

Acle
Aldborough
Aylsham
Bacton
Banham
Blakeney
Bradwell
Bramerton
Brancaster
Brundall
Burnham Thorpe
Caister-on-Sea
California
Cantley
Castle Acre
Castle Rising
Cawston
Clenchwarton
Cley next the Sea
Coltishall
Cromer
Dereham
Dersingham
Diss
Downham Market
East Harling
East Runton
Fakenham
Garboldisham
Gaywood
Glandford
Gorleston-on-Sea
Great Bircham
Great Ellingham
Great Yarmouth
Happisburgh
Harleston
Heacham
Hickling
Hingham
Holkham
Holt
Horning
Hunstanton
Ingoldisthorpe
King’s Lynn
Little Walsingham
Loddon
Long Stratton
Ludham
Martham
Melton Constable
Methwold
Morston
Mundesley
Narborough
Newport
North Creake
Northrepps
North Walsham
Old Hunstanton
Outwell
Overstrand
Potter Heigham
Ranworth
Reedham
Reepham
Salthouse
Sandringham
Scole
Scratby
Sea Palling
Sheringham
Snettisham
Stalham
Stokesby
Stow Bridge
Sudbury
Sutton
Swaffham
Ten Mile Bank
The Norfolk Broads
Thetford
Thorpe Market
Thorpe St Andrew
Trimingham
Walcott
Watton
Wells-Next-The-Sea
West Dereham
West Runton
Weybourne
Winterton-on-Sea
Wolferton
Worstead