Victorian Views – Leek and District’s first professional photographers with David Cliffe

“David goes behind the camera to look at the district’s earliest photographers, operating from the 1850’s onwards. As well as taking hundreds of portraits, these pioneer photographers started to take their cameras out of the studio to record street scenes, historic buildings and important events. Their work now represents a valuable record of Victorian life in the Leek area and also important buildings that have since been lost. David, who is a keen collector of Victorian and Edwardian photos, hopes to show some images that have not been seen in public for more than a century and also reveal details about the lives of the photographers themselves.”