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Latchmore Collection - part 2
Thomas Latchmore tried both the daguerreotype and the calotype processes before he set up his business, first in Bancroft in 1862 and then in Brand Street in 1870. This is probably an early experiment - a view of the Marketplace from a viewpoint high in High Street. Thomas' father had a grocer's shop there, and this is likely to have been the view from the roof. The Corn Exchange, with its Italianate cupola, first opened for business in 1853. The building on the left was demolished in 1854, so the photograph was obviously taken between those dates.
A View of the Marketplace
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