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Photographers' Profiles by Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand Walter Mayell of Melbourne |
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Mayell was born at Swindon, Wiltshire in 1879, son of a
blacksmith John Mayell and his wife Emma. After marrying Emily
Dent in Buckinghamshire in 1899, he moved to Derby, where their first
child was born a few months later. By April 1901, however, they
had settled in Melbourne, where Walter as working as a journeyman baker. Mayell had a general store in Melbourne's High Street in the mid-1930s. Examination of trade directories of the period provide the following entries: 1926-1927 : Mayell's Cafe, restaurant, High Street, Melbourne 1932 : Mayel Walt. refreshment rooms, High Street, Melbourne 1935 : Mayell Walter, confectioner, High Street, Melbourne Mayell probably opened his shop on the High Street, or took it over from someone else, between the end of the Great War and the mid-1920s. He may have taken photographs and published them as postcards; he almost certainly sold such postcards in his shop. |
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Memorial Service at Breedon-on-the-Hill, near Melbourne by W. Mayell of Melbourne Undated, but probably taken at the unveiling of the memorial in 1926 Format: Post Card Size: 168 x 108 mm Image © & courtesy of Diane Hicklin Notes: see Photo-Sleuth
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Images and information kindly provided by Diane Hicklin 1841-1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD International Genealogical Index - online from the LDS church North East Midland Photographic Record - Picture the Past Anon (1899) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Nottinghamshire, Kelly & Co., London. University of Leicester's Digital Library of Historical Directories Anon (1912) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1912, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. Anon (1917) Chesterfield Year Book & Directory for 1917, Printed by The Derbyshire Courier, Chesterfield, Dec 1916 - by kind courtesy of Rita Effnert Anon (1932) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1932, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. Adamson, Keith I.P. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843 - 1914, The PhotoHistorian, No. 118 Supplement, September 1997, ISSN 0957-0209. Courtesy of John Bradley. Craven, Maxwell (ed.) (1993) Keene's Derby, Breedon Books, Derby, pp. 200-202. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith |
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