Comments on: Thomas Barnes, Photographer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/01/13/thomas-barnes-photographer-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:09:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Jeane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/01/13/thomas-barnes-photographer-i/#comment-1681406 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:09:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202018#comment-1681406 We are but shadows.

]]> By: Christine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/01/13/thomas-barnes-photographer-i/#comment-1681284 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:59:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202018#comment-1681284 Beautiful photos and sadly we will never know who these people were who could afford to have their photos taken!

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/01/13/thomas-barnes-photographer-i/#comment-1681166 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:47:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202018#comment-1681166 That’s interesting: Thomas Barnes numbered all his photos. And yet we still don’t know exactly WHEN the photos were taken. That would NEVER have happened to my grandfather: ALL family photos were accurately labelled with the date, the object, the names of the people. My father adopted this method. And what can I say: me too, of course!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/01/13/thomas-barnes-photographer-i/#comment-1681039 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:02:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202018#comment-1681039 That is an impressive number. Some wonderful images here too. I have a couple of similar portraits in our family albums of grandparents and other long lost relatives captured on early film

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/01/13/thomas-barnes-photographer-i/#comment-1681009 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:28:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202018#comment-1681009 These are wonderful photographs. I hope that some ancestors may have copies and can identify some of the individuals. They also show the dress and styles of the period beautifully.
I only have one photograph of my great grandfather from a slightly later period. They were impoverished but turned out in their best clothes, perhaps borrowed, looking like members of the aristocracy. One great aunt appeared rather fond of being photographed as I have several of her, in different outfits and poses.
Thank you Philip and the GA.

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