The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.3 | Dec 2023

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Hampshire Archives and Local Studies - Edith Howard of Andover photograph collection I was interested to read that my great aunt Edith’s Archive of plates survives. I remember her visits to my family when I was a child. She was formidable, although her sister-in-law my great aunt Grace Howard, widow of Percy, another Howard photographer, said she’d “mellowed in old age”! There were two other professional photographers in the family, her brother

Charlie who was set up in Chichester, and her sister Eva, based in Harrow. Charlie was my grandfather, and my father Charlie and his sister Grace took over his business in 1945, when they returned home from war service. Grace junior had worked in the RAF photography unit in Meddenham. My father never encouraged any of his sons to follow him, although I did operate as a wedding photographer for him 50 odd years

ago, using a glass plate camera. Andrew Howard Member #12568

Memories of Baffins WEA Publication. Price £3 available from HGS bookshop or online. ISBN 978 1 873911 42 6

Wearing my other editor’s hat, I can report that our latest publication is now available. Starting pre-covid there has been a long delay to shut downs etc. in preparing this booklet. It also meant re-walking the area as shops had closed or changed hands in that time. The contents are our normal street listings of shops from Kelly’s directories, based around 1960, along with memories of the area.

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