Old Photographs of Chester & Liverpool

The Black & White Picture Place

Old Photographs & Drawings of Chester & Liverpool 1

We start with a selection of beautiful images from our private collection by the celebrated Liverpool
photographer, Edward Chambré Hardman (1898-1988) Click on a thumbnail for a larger version...

St. Mary's Hill, Chester

Old Dee Bridge, Chester

Newgate, Chester

Canal Barges, Liverpool

Photographer Peter Hagerty has produced an exhaustive study of Hardman's life and work: The Continuity of Landscape Representation: the Photography of E. Chambré Hardman. You can download it as a PDF from his website. Also, be sure to visit the official Edward Chambré Harman Archive. We are unable to supply reproduction prints of the above images but these are available for purchase from The National Trust. Scroll down the page for more old photographs of Liverpool...

Coburg Dock, Liverpool

Liverpool Cathedral

Liverpool South Docks

Birth of the Ark Royal

Old Photographs and Drawings of Chester
(Notes and descriptions are yet to be added to many of these pictures)

Bridge Street	Queen's Park Bridge	Original Queen's Park Bridge	Chester Canal 1	Chester Canal 2 and 3
St. Anne Street	Building the Ring Road	Old George Street	Abbey Green / Rufus Court	The changing face of Chester Market Hall
Changing Face of the Market Square	Market Square	The Market Hall	The Old Exchange	The Ermine Pub
The Old Dee Bridge & Mills	Arthur Godwin's works inc Old Dee Bridge	Arthur Godwin 2: Chester Cathedral	View of Chester 1753	Grosvenor Bridge 1869
St. John's House	The Phoenix Tower 1885	Railway poster 1938	Eastgate Street postcard	Memories of The Royalty Theatre
Towpath Improvements	The 'Skelly 'orse'	Infirmary & Ring Road 1964	Chris Langford Gallery (Chester in the 1950s and 60s)	The Northgate Brewery
Frodsham Street	The Abbey Gateway	King Street old and new	Old Lamb Row	Mercia Square
The Infirmary	More old Chester photographs coming soon! Now go on to...	Modern pictures of Chester	Old pictures of Liverpool	Modern pictures of Liverpool

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