Christopher Wilson

Christopher Wilson worked at 91 London Road, Lowestoft (Kelly's Suffolk Directory, 1904/1908/1912/1916, Ipswich Directory of Trades 1906/1907, Aubry's Suffolk Directory 1916)

Card K0666 was sent by Wilson to a customer and has a list of his prices written in his hand and signed.

Wilson is the subject of a book, 'Images of Lowestoft: the photographs of Christopher Wilson' by Ian G Robb (Sutton Publishing, 2002).

Robb/Godfrey reports that he first worked (c 1888-1893) in Sleaford, Lincs, before moving to Lowestoft and the studio of Walter Boughton (c1894-1904). Though subsequently setting up his own business, he remained part of the Boughton/Jenkins circle of competing but friendly photographic families. (According to LJ/IR, he succeeded Boughton as official photographer to the mayors of Lowestoft.) The rise of the amateur photographer forced him in later years to take up the developing and printing trade and sell photographic equipment. Though promoting Kodak products as a retailer, he retained a personal preference for the products of British photographic manufacturers. The Lowestoft Record office holds a collection of his prints, including some dating from his Sleaford years. Reference this paragraph.