Francis Frith's Castles of Wales

Detailed photographs of the castles

This collection features around 150 detailed photographs of the castles of Wales taken from the Frith archive, with extended captions to pictures and a full introduction. It is aimed at tourists and local historians as well as general readers, and includes a voucher for a free print.

Francis Frith (1822-1898)

The English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom, Francis Frith was born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England in 1822 to a Quaker family. A successful grocer, and later, printer, Francis Frith fostered an interest in photography, becoming a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society in 1853. Francis Frith sold his companies in 1855 in order to dedicate himself entirely to photography.
In 1859, Francis Frith established F. Frith and Company at Reigate in Surrey, which produced and distributed, photographs and stereographs for albums and book illustrations. Frith died in 1898.

Francis Frith Collection

Frith was re-launched in 1976 as The Francis Frith Collection by John Buck, a Rothmans executive, with the intention of making the Francis Frith photographs available to as wide an audience as possible.

Castles of Wales

Francis Frith's Castles of Wales by Clive Hardy
Publisher: The Frith Book Company Ltd, 2000
ISBN: 1859371205

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