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A map of Aycliffe and its surrounding area c. 1611, extracted from a map of County Durham by John Speed.The name "Aycliffe" is rendered as "Acle". In the above, "Acle" is the original village of Aycliffe, and "Scol Acle" is School Aycliffe ("School" in the village's name being derived from "Scula", a Viking chieftain that was granted lands in the area).
Francis Frith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer and businessman. [1] Francis Frith & Co., the company he founded in 1860 with the initial goal of photographing every town and village in England, quickly became the largest photographic publishers in the world and eventually amassed a collection of 330,000 negatives covering over 7,000 ...
Photo book; 0–9. 50 Photographs; 78-87 London Youth; ... Bystander: A History of Street Photography; C. Camera Lucida (book) Century (1999 book) A Child Is Born (book)
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
Today's Aycliffe Village is a mixture of cottages, old houses and new builds. On the whole, its architecture is varied with some houses dating back several hundred years to a small amount of relatively new-build properties.
Sedgefield has a long mining history (extracting coal, fluorspar and iron ore) and once had a very strong affiliation to the Labour Party, with nearly monolithic support in parts of the constituency. [ citation needed ] The area contains a mixture of former coal country in the area around Trimdon and more industrial areas around the new town of ...
Wallace Heaton was a photographic retailer based in London and was trading independently from 1917 until 1972 when it was bought by Dixons.The company was originally set up by a Wallace Heaton, a pharmacist who opened his shop in New Bond Street; over time he moved his business from pharmacy to photography and photographic supplies.
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