Jerome's

[Birdy]

I dont know if this has been on before, came across this site a while ago and found it really interesting. It used to be the place to have your photo taken in Liverpool back in the day.

Good information and interesting photos, of the studio and of that time. I contacted them a while ago, and sent them a photo I had taken of me as a baby in Jerome's and he kindly published it, for info that's me holding up Brucie's chin half way down the page.

Dont know but he may want to hear from anyone if they have photos from Jerome's.

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Jerome_Studios.html

[lindylou]

I've got a picture of me taken at Jeromes. :)

[Birdy]

Are you going to share it with us LindyLou? :)

[gregs dad]

i had my pic taken in Jeromes,London Rd, in 1944,you had your first communion pics taken there or Star Studio in Bold St

[Birdy]

Yes it seems a lot of people had their photo taken there, as I said on the website, its a shame that there does not seem to have been many that survived, there must have been thousands in the shop, wonder where they all went.

Maybe we could use this thread to show off any old Jerome photo's that may be out there?

[lindylou]

Are you going to share it with us LindyLou? :)

yeah, I will when I root it out :)

[wsteve55]

A great post about "Jeromes" there,Birdy! Amazing,that after the merger,they became the world's biggest photo shop chain,then 8 years later,they were finished!

[Ged]

How nice to see a thread on Jeromes, I have about half a dozen pics taken in there, not all me, some my dad with my bro.

See here also - message 180 on page 18 of this long forgotten, well buried thread.


http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2741&highlight=jeromes&page=18



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[Birdy]

Thanks for that ged i thought it must have come up somewhere before,couldn't find it in the search,some ace photo's on that thread, i might get in touch with him again to see if anything new has come his way that he might want to share with us .:)

[Ged]

You've still got the coat too Lindy, i've seen the meet up photies remember ;)

[Birdy]

Nice photo Lindylou, just had a look on the website it's deffo the same table isn't it, whatever happened to barley twist sweets :)

[Tom"O"]

Taken about 1947 FHC

[Birdy]

Brilliant tom, is that that table again ?:)

[Birdy]

Here is the photo of me, I am informed that it was thought unlucky to cut babies/young children's hair in those days. Is that true?

Wish I had it now.....:tear:

[Samp]

A good thread this, must look up some old pictures.

[ItsaZappathing]

A good thread this, must look up some old pictures.

Yep I will second that. Some good pics there.:PDT_Piratz_26:

[Birdy]

Looking forward to those photos Samp :)

[Ged]

Well it turned out to be a little more than half a dozen, perhaps some kind person can restore one or two for me. Anyway, it was a good excuse to scan em' in before they got damaged any further.

My dad aged 3 c1923.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5179/dadc1923.jpg (http://img32.imageshack.us/i/dadc1923.jpg/)



My dad's younger brother Jimmy c1926. This would be the year their dad died from the effects of poisoning suffered dring WWI.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3245/jimmyc1926.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/jimmyc1926.jpg/)



My dad aged 9 taken to Jeromes after a procession - sadly water damaged - help?

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3717/dadaged9procession.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/dadaged9procession.jpg/)



My dad's elder sister Lily, looking very Charlstonesque in the mid 1930s.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5898/lilyfagan.jpg (http://img134.imageshack.us/i/lilyfagan.jpg/)



My older brother Joe, taken when he was two and a half on 27/9/1953.


http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1073/joey27953.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/joey27953.jpg/)

[Ged]

My brother again with my dad on 29/6/1954 as well as my dad and his brother Jimmy in 1926. Also our Joe on his 5th birthday - yee hah. I couldn't upload these big for some reason but you can click on them if you want to.

[Ged]

He's looking a little more angelic this time on 3rd Dec 1957.

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4074/joey31257.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/i/joey31257.jpg/)



Him again on 19.3.1965. His life's been pretty well documented in Jeromes.

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2294/joey19365.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/i/joey19365.jpg/)



But wait...who's this at the same session. Oh yeah, i'm along by now.


http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/6140/joeygorpmejeromes.jpg (http://img264.imageshack.us/i/joeygorpmejeromes.jpg/)



.

[ItsaZappathing]

Good pics them mate. I don't think there's much hope on restoring the water damaged pic though.

[Waterways]

This photo of me was taken at Jeromes. Looking at the pics on the web-site, looks like that's the same table I'm sitting on as the one on some of the older photos. :)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/Yo%20box/001-Copy.jpg

ha,ha, I've still got the teddybear. It's ancient and tatty but I wouldn't part with it. :)

edit.
actually on second glance the table legs are a bit different. The table legs on the web-site pics are barleysugar twist (whatever you call them)

I noticed one of the tables in the 1930s photos was the same one my mother posed in front of. :)

[Birdy]

Some great photos there Ged, love the one of your dads elder sister Lily, good little tip there for any one with precious photos scan them all then you have allways got back up if anything should happen to them, i have got mine in on disc, laptop, and seperate hard drive.

[Ged]

Good tip Birdy, I think a couple of mine were damaged even before I had a PC, let alone know how to scan or put on a disc :) At least I have other ones of my dad as a child but my mam's 1st Holy Communion pic also went the same way as that damaged one.

[robbo176]

great photo's everyone :)

[robbo176]

I don't know if these photos were taken in Jeromes but this is a photo of my grandma Elizabeth Reay ( it was already a blue colour when it was given to me ,I keep meaning to change it to sepia)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/family/Elizabethreay1.jpg

my gt grandfather Josiah Robinson (his clothes look to big for him in this photo)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/family/Josiah.jpg

[Birdy]

Great pics robbo, oh to have photos of my great grandparents.

[lindylou]

Great pic everyone. I love old photos :handclap:
I have all our old family photos in a 'gallery' on our hall wall.

[Ged]

Gettem down.

[pablo42]

Great pic everyone. I love old photos :handclap:
I have all our old family photos in a 'gallery' on our hall wall.

I love old photos too. I got an old portrait on my wall and a quirky photo of a Jewish wedding in my hall. My kids hate them. They're my favourites, I've told countless lies over the years about who they are, trouble is I never knew who they were. Reckon that's why they're special.

[lindylou]

I love old photos too. I got an old portrait on my wall and a quirky photo of a Jewish wedding in my hall. My kids hate them. They're my favourites, I've told countless lies over the years about who they are, trouble is I never knew who they were. Reckon that's why they're special.

I know what you mean, ha,ha.

I love this picture of Garcia Lorca and have it framed on the hall table ( look at my attachment photo, I've moved ahead to post no.37)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/Benal%20box/GL.jpg

I've also got a Chambre Hardman photo there too. I love 1920's 30's photographs.

[pablo42]

I know what you mean, ha,ha.

I love this picture of Garcia Lorca and have it framed on the hall table ( look at my attachment photo)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/Benal%20box/GL.jpg

I've also got a Chambre Hardman photo there too. I love 1920's 30's photographs.

Go on then, tell us who they are. Never heard of them or seen them before.

[lindylou]

Pablo. Some links :

http://www.mersey-gateway.org/chambrehardman/

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=garcia+lorca+&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&rlz=1W1GPEA_en&aq=f&oq=

[lindylou]

I just love this Chambre Hardman photo, I have it framed.

Sorry it's a blurred attachment but I was too lazy to take it out of the frame! :)
I really like the way the photo captures that era and the way the 3 people are relaxed under the shade of the tree.

[lindylou]

images deleted

[robbo176]

lucky you Lindy having so many wonderful family photos :PDT_Aliboronz_11:

[Davec]

I'm impressed and jealous Lindy

[wsteve55]

Great pic's Lindy! There's just something about b/w photo's.:nod:

[wsteve55]

I just love this Chambre Hardman photo, I have it framed.

Sorry it's a blurred attachment but I was too lazy to take it out of the frame! :)
I really like the way the photo captures that era and the way the 3 people are relaxed under the shade of the tree.

Have you ever visited Hardman's house/studio,in Rodney st.? Definitely worth a visit,as the house has been "preserved",as it was!

[naked lilac]

Very nice pictures of a lovely family .. ta for sharing them. You look great!

[Ged]

Great pics Lindy and good on you for preserving them and showing them.

[lindylou]

Have you ever visited Hardman's house/studio,in Rodney st.? Definitely worth a visit,as the house has been "preserved",as it was!

Yes, I've been there. :)

[lindylou]

Very nice pictures of a lovely family .. ta for sharing them. You look great!

Thanks NL :)

[lindylou]

Great pic's Lindy! There's just something about b/w photo's.:nod:

I just love looking at old black & white family photos. Especially the very old sepia type. It's fascinating to see the fashions and styles of the times.

[lindylou]

Great pics Lindy and good on you for preserving them and showing them.

Ged, your family photos are great too :PDT11

The one of your aunty Lily is a fab pic, and that last one of you with your brother - I can see it's you - you havn't changed :)

[Ged]

Ta, i'm glad that girly hair's gone though :)

[Birdy]

Great photos lindy must be nice to have photos of family going so far back.

[Samp]

Just to keep this thread active.

These photos are from an old photo album bought at a car boot sale.

Not Jerome's but similar.

[pablo42]

Just to keep this thread active.

These photos are from an old photo album bought at a car boot sale.

Not Jerome's but similar.

Wonder who they were. Probably important to have their photo done. Love it.

[Samp]

Some more old photos.

[Birdy]

Nice photos samp, would be great if you had info of them, thats what you get with car booty's s'pose :)

[Samp]

Some more early photographs, bought at an antiques fair locally.
I think the people are from around the Ormskirk area.

[pablo42]

Some more early photographs, bought at an antiques fair locally.
I think the people are from around the Ormskirk area.

Funny how people in old photos always look old. No matter how old they are they always look ancient.

[lindylou]

Funny how people in old photos always look old. No matter how old they are they always look ancient.

I've noticed that particularly with 1950's photographs - people look 35 and turn out to be 16 !! :PDT_Aliboronz_11:

[pablo42]

I've noticed that particularly with 1950's photographs - people look 35 and turn out to be 16 !! :PDT_Aliboronz_11:

I remember that when I used to watch all our yesterdays. The folk from the war used to look middle aged, when they could only have been in their twenties. Now, when I look at clips from the sixties, the same thing has happened. Now they look middle aged. Yet they never at the time. What's that about. Must be something scientific about it.

[Ged]

I remember all the mothers looking about 50 when I played in our tenement square in the 1970s. How shocked was I to be invited to some 70ths this year - they must've only been about 35.

[Spike]

Not sure if its Jerome's? these are my dad as a kid, he lived on Scottie road so it may be jeromes?

[pablo42]

[QUOTE=Ged;204419]I remember all the mothers looking about 50 when I played in our tenement square in the 1970s. How shocked was I to be invited to some 70ths this year - they must've only been about 35.[/QUOTE

I was in Bosnia a few years back and I was amazed at the craggy one toothed women who were carrying kids. I used to ask them about the kids and it turned out they were the mothers. They were late twenties early thirties. Gopping.

[lindylou]

I remember all the mothers looking about 50 when I played in our tenement square in the 1970s. How shocked was I to be invited to some 70ths this year - they must've only been about 35.

we'll have to post some of our 1960's, 70's & 80's pictures of ourselves for a laugh. :) I've seen some of yours Ged :PDT_Piratz_26:


Anyone else willing to post old pics of themselves ? Start a new thread. :)

I've got some of myself wearing some right 70's & 80's gear ! :PDT_Xtremez_42: (and some right 1980's hair do's !!)

[pablo42]

we'll have to post some of our 1960's, 70's & 80's pictures of ourselves for a laugh. :) I've seen some of yours Ged :PDT_Piratz_26:


Anyone else willing to post old pics of themselves ? Start a new thread. :)

I've got some of myself wearing some right 70's & 80's gear ! :PDT_Xtremez_42: (and some right 1980's hair do's !!)

Any with short skirts?

[lindylou]

yeah :PDT_Xtremez_42: but if I post them I'll crop the bottom half off the photie :PDT10 :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[pablo42]

yeah :PDT_Xtremez_42: but if I post them I'll crop the bottom half off the photie :PDT10 :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Hang on, hang on, I was gonna ask for underwear shots and I never. I was being polite, least you can do is repay my politeness with short skirts.

[Spike]

Pablo

Here is my Great Grandma in the short skirts of her day.

Could be Jeromes as they lived very close to the shop.

[Spike]

another possible

My Nan Grandad and Dad, just before Grandad went to war.

See how handsome he is. I off course inherited those stunning good looks :unibrow:

[pablo42]

another possible

My Nan Grandad and Dad, just before Grandad went to war.

See how handsome he is. I off course inherited those stunning good looks :unibrow:

Were they brother and sister Spike? Maybe just cousins...

[Spike]

You dishonour my family sir

I challenge you to a duel at 6.am


Make it 11.30 i like a sleep in :)

[pablo42]

You dishonour my family sir

I challenge you to a duel at 6.am


Make it 11.30 i like a sleep in :)

I that case I'll be there at six. That'll teach ya.

[Spike]

lol you can fight the Postman or the Milkman

[pablo42]

lol you can fight the Postman or the Milkman

Done that yesterday. I lost.

That's why it's your turn.

I thought next time pick on a numpty.

[Spike]

lol Numpty, aint heard that in years. :PDT11

What weapons?

Mud pies at six paces

[pablo42]

lol Numpty, aint heard that in years. :PDT11

What weapons?

Mud pies at six paces

It's nearly Christmas, gotta be mince pies. I got a good throwing arm. So let's make it thirty paces.

Also got some stale mince pies. They leave a nasty wound.

[Spike]

Ive got cream for the wounds and for the pies.

[pablo42]

Ive got cream for the wounds and for the pies.

You have it all, and I have nothing...

[Spike]

I shall share the cream. We can have it on our pies and discuss what this thread was about at the start :)

Oh I remember Jeromes....nice pics everyone :handclap:

[pablo42]

I shall share the cream. We can have it on our pies and discuss what this thread was about at the start :)

Oh I remember Jeromes....nice pics everyone :handclap:

Yes, tea and mince pies. Better than fighting. I'd probably lose again anyhow.

[Samp]

we'll have to post some of our 1960's, 70's & 80's pictures of ourselves for a laugh. :) I've seen some of yours Ged :PDT_Piratz_26:


Anyone else willing to post old pics of themselves ? Start a new thread. :)

I've got some of myself wearing some right 70's & 80's gear ! :PDT_Xtremez_42: (and some right 1980's hair do's !!)


As long as you don't have 'Nora Batty' stockings!

[Samp]

another possible

My Nan Grandad and Dad, just before Grandad went to war.

See how handsome he is. I off course inherited those stunning good looks :unibrow:

Nice picture Spike, something to treasure.

[pablo42]

As long as you don't have 'Nora Batty' stockings!

Have you seen her. She is very easy on the eye.

We wait to see what stockings she wears.

[Samp]

It's nearly Christmas, gotta be mince pies. I got a good throwing arm. So let's make it thirty paces.

Also got some stale mince pies. They leave a nasty wound.


You don't mince your words Pablo!

[pablo42]

You don't mince your words Pablo!

I was a soldier and it was a fight. He probably had a secret weapon behind his back. I did.

[Spike]

Lol

I had a stink bomb in case I got cornered.

[pablo42]

Lol

I had a stink bomb in case I got cornered.

Knew it. I just knew it. I had a flan, but it still had the crust on.

[Spike]

No Not the Phantom Flan Flinger :eek:

[pablo42]

No Not the Phantom Flan Flinger :eek:

My reputation as a great fighter has reached Liverpool then.

[carmaxsam]

hi r u from dingle i use to know a lad from the dingle called birdy

[Birdy]

Not me carmaxsam but hello anyway :)

[pablo42]

Not me carmaxsam but hello anyway :)

You done good there Birdy...

He coulda been a bailif...

[dazza]

Great photo Lindy. Are you going to make it your avatar?

[lindylou]

Great photo Lindy. Are you going to make it your avatar?

ha, that's an idea dazza :)

[az_gila]

Great photos lindy must be nice to have photos of family going so far back.

...to have old family portraits.

This is my 3rd great grandfather (according to the genealogy program - I can never work it out...:)...) Robert and his wife Margaret - Robert was born in 1799 in Ayrshire and died in Wisconsin in the 1870's. Photography must have been in it's infancy when these were taken.

He had 9 children, 2 ended up in Yorkshire, 2 in Wisconsin, 1 remained in Scotland, and 4 are unknown.
I'm descended from the Yorkshire group.

I do feel lucky to have these old photos.

The nice thing about computers and the Internet is that once these old photos turn up in some family members collection, it's easy to scan them and distribute them to other family members around the world. Photos that remain in shoe boxes are essentially lost to everyone else.

PS - I only remember Kayes for taking portraits in the 60s - where they on Bold Street?

[dazza]

Fantastic potraits az, and thanks for the story behind them.

[az_gila]

...some family pictures fall into the "kept in a shoebox" category, and did not fare well.

This is Gilbert and Eleanor (oldest son of Robert above) taken in 1902 when he was 71. The picture was on thin paper and had become brittle and discolored, obviously a different process from the earlier picture {Insert joke about cheap Yorkshire men here..:)..}. I had to attempt to piece it together and turned it black/white when I scanned it.

Even though it is 1902, it seems this is in a natural outdoor setting, not a photographers studio.

Preserve those family pictures for future generations!

Gil A - proudly the 7th generation named "Gilbert" in our family...

[pablo42]

Nice one. Just think how they would view our world now.

[az_gila]

Nice one. Just think how they would view our world now.

Yes... and he was part of the change from rural to urban living. At 16 he was an agricultural laborer in Ayrshire, and at 26 he was a Tea Dealer in Whitby, and then became a bookkeeper in Scarborough. Big changes, and ones that seemed to be echoed in the entire family.

Aren't census records wonderful...:)

[lindylou]

Thanks for posting your photos az_gila

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks for posting your photos az_gila

Fabulous old photographs, az_gila. One really gets a sense of the gritty characters of your ancestors. Excellent. :handclap:

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[dazza]

Brilliant photos once again az. Great to have a personal window to that time in history.

[Birdy]

There you go Gil, took the creases out.

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad182/Birdy31/gilberteleANORFINAL1902.jpg



http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad182/Birdy31/gilbertazgila31902final.jpg

[az_gila]

There you go Gil, took the creases out.



Thank you - what a wonderful job. Those weren't creases though, they were actually broken pieces taped to-gether - an amazing restoration.

I do like the sepia one better, much more in keeping with the era.

This shows the wonders of the digital age, and how we can preserve family history by taking pictures out of your old aunt's shoe box and spreading them around to other family members. This memory will be much harder to loose now.

Again, thanks Birdy.

[Birdy]

Thanks Gil, it seemed a shame not to really, as they look like a lovely couple and it appeared there was a nice photo under the tape, i hope you have got a few more to share with us.

[az_gila]

Thanks Gil, it seemed a shame not to really, as they look like a lovely couple and it appeared there was a nice photo under the tape, i hope you have got a few more to share with us.

Only a few more, it seems like folks at that time posed for few photographs, it must have been expensive.

This is William and his Irish wife Annie. Brother of Gilbert and Eleanor above.
He did leave Scotland, but left for the US instead of Yorkshire.
This is a picture of a picture, and is the only picture we know of. The original is in the Plainview Historical Society museum.
He was a founder of Plainview Nebraska, born 1828, died 1911.
The picture is probably turn of the century like the Yorkshire one above

[fillandclaire]

I have really enjoyed reading this thread. I was told by older members of my family that Jeromes was certainly the place to be shot. Apparently at the weekends, it was like a conveyor belt it was so popular, and it was not cheap by any standard to have your photo taken there.
How sad that those old photos turned up in a car boot sale. Some poor family is missing out on a treasure there.
I love all the old pics posted. Thank you all for sharing

[GNASHER]

Don't know if this was at Jeromes but it's in that style.My great gran.

[carmaxsam]

ok thanks for getting back

[carmaxsam]

birdy how do i post a photo on here

[squiggs]

I dont remember Jeromes !, the only one I know is Kayes !....Birdy can I borrow you for a while ?, you did a fantastic job on that picture !! :handclap:

[az_gila]

I dont remember Jeromes !, the only one I know is Kayes !....Birdy can I borrow you for a while ?, you did a fantastic job on that picture !! :handclap:

I only remember Kayes too... where they on Bold Street?

[GNASHER]

Just put a post on the Fashion statements thread.A photo I posted was by Peter Kaye of Studio Nine Photography,65 Highville Road,Childwall,Liverpool 16.Tel. Childwall 6832.I'll ask my mum where the photo was taken.

[lindylou]

I've put this in the Jeromes thread, but has anyone heard of the photographer Charles
Pettingell, 178 & 180 London Rd ? I've not heard anyone mention Pettingell before. I'm wondering if Jeromes took over the Pettingell's studio?

I've just been given this photo of my great grandfather.

IMAGE REMOVED


you can just about make out on the back of the photo, the address London rd. -

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/Yo%20box/q.jpg

Couldn't find much on the inter-net, but found Gores listings. One for 1898, and one for 1900:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~liverpoolphotographers/1898_Gores_Directory.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~liverpoolphotographers/1900_Gores_Directory.html

[Birdy]

Nice pic Lindy,His adress is as you say 180 london road but jeromes is down as 17-19 but found this http://pittspic.blogspot.com/search/label/chas.%20pettingell

[Ged]

Well found Birdy.

[lindylou]

Thanks Birdy. The back of our photo is similar to the one in that link, but doesn't have the image of the studio.

[Samp]

Anyone remember a photograpers called Fred Ash, used to be in Bold Street. It was the old style photographic studio, if you wanted your photo in colour, it was hand tinted by female artists. Long before colour photography!

[Birdy]

Cheers lindy, I like that little drawing of the shop, 180 in an old Gores shows up as being the top end of london road near the junction with pembroke place.

[wsteve55]

Interesting link there,Birdy!

[ItsaZappathing]

Nice pic Lindy,His adress is as you say 180 london road but jeromes is down as 17-19 but found this http://pittspic.blogspot.com/search/label/chas.%20pettingell

Nice link mate :D Good pics all.

[Aprillove20]

Nice thread...I love the B&W image.

[lindac8941]

We must have been poshe, as I never went to Jeromes, We had a professional photographer come to the house. Also my dad was a stickler for buying cameras, he had about half a dozen. I remember the old box brownie he used to have. ha ha ha. (I would love to know what happened to those cameras, as I bet some of them would be worth a few bob now).

[gregs dad]

Jeromes used to sell spools of paper negative called the Jerome spool which had to be returned to them for developing,costing 1/6.There were 8 prints on each roll.
Gratispool was another firm which gave you free spools you sent the spool to them and they would print your photos then send another free spool to you.
H B pencils were used to retouch the negatives before printing.

[GeorgePorgie]

Funny this name should crop up,I was browsing this very site only 2 days ago....

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Jerome_Studios.html
http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Jerome_Studios/tn_Jerome_Liverpool_all.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kr-photos

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Smacks back of hand...must read the whole thread in future...:rolleyes: