Photographers in the High
Soame's photographic shop in the High Street
(demolished in 1901 to make way for the Rhodes Building)
The High was a magnet for photographers, attracting both town and gown. Many of them produced their own picture postcards. The list below may help people in the dating of old pictures. Gillman & Soame are still going strong today.
Bracher, Edward
- 1852–1863: 26 High Street
- 1863: sold the business to Wheeler & Day
Day, George P.
- 1875–1876+: 95 High Street (presumably breaking away from Wheeler & Day)
M. & E. J. Edmark (later Studio Edmark)
- 1956–1976+: 130 High Street
Gillman & Soame
(incorporating Hill &
Saunders):
- 1939–1970: 56 High Street
See also Soame below
Guggenheim, J.W.
- 1866–1883: 56 High Street
Leslie, George (incorporating Gillman)
- 1934–1941: 55 High Street
Miller, John G.
- 1866–1875: 94 High Street
Penrose & Palmer
- 1921–1941: 50 High Street
Rose, William R.
- 1908–1914: 134 High Street
1915–1964: 133 & 134 High Street
Soame, James (junior)
- 1889–1894: 56a High Street
- 1895–1909: 101 High Street
- 1909: Moved to 105 St Aldate's Street after 101 High Street was demolished to make way for the Rhodes Building,
and in the early 1930s his business there became known as Gillman & Soame
Taunt, Henry
- 1854: Started at the age of 14 with Edward Bracher at 26 High Street
- 1863: Took over as manager when Bracher’s business was sold to Wheeler & Day
- 1866: Took over a shop in Cornmarket, moving to 9–10 Broad Street in 1874
- 1894/5: 41 High Street
- 1896–1906: 34 High Street
Taylor, Norman
- 1918–1947: 107A High Street
Westmoreland Linton, later Westmoreland Photographers
- 1947–1954: 130 High Street
Wheeler & Day
- 1866–1871: 106 High Street (bought Edward Bracher’s business)
- 1872: Appears to have split into two separate businesses, with Wheeler remaining here and Day moving into 95 High Street
Wheeler, William Henry
- 1872–1918: 106 High Street
