The Heritage Bank has been contacted by Jackie Blower, a descendant of George Frederick Cooper Spells, a photographer working in Petersfield around the time of the First World War. He seems to have specialised in small head-and-shoulders photo, printed in strips of half a dozen which were often given to friends and family as keepsakes.
In Buriton, Jack Bridle (village postman from about 1907 until he retired in 1930) also seems to have been given quite a few. Several appear in our ‘Buriton in Living Memory’ book – which is why we were contacted about the topic.
The photos were probably taken at a shop in Petersfield known as the “Sticky Back Shop”, thought to have been in The Square near today’s post office, pub and library.
Jackie still has many of these images and we have put her in contact with the Petersfield Museum to see if they can help each other find out more.
