Two original 8x6" antique photos from an album of stunning large format antique English photos that we acquired from the UK estate of the Billie Love Historical Collection.

Note that this is a single mounting board containing TWO IMAGES - one on either side of the heavy antique card stock.

* We always automatically combine orders for shipping, so add as many photos as you’d like to your order! Professionally packaged in a rigid mailer for safe delivery.

Photo Overview

A two-sided mounting board from the Billie Love Historical Collection showing two original UK landscape images. The front side is a tranquil view of Hampton Park, most likely Hampton Park in Hereford, England, with trees reflected in a boating lake, rustic fencing along the shore, and Edwardian visitors relaxing in deckchairs beneath the trees. The reverse side depicts the dramatic chalk cliffs of Beachy Head near Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, with the famous striped Beachy Head Lighthouse standing off the cliff base and a steamship passing in the English Channel, captured from a high vantage point along the cliff edge. Both images are early 20th century photographic prints on heavy card, not halftone reproductions, offering an atmospheric antique record of popular English leisure and coastal scenery.

Hampton Park was part of the Victorian and Edwardian fashion for landscaped public parks, created to offer city dwellers fresh air, promenades, and bandstand concerts as railways made excursions easier for the middle classes. Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, became a major seaside attraction after the railway reached nearby Eastbourne in the 19th century, with the Beachy Head Lighthouse completed in 1902 to safeguard Channel shipping. Pieces from curated collections like the Billie Love archive rarely appear in the open market, so securing this double-image antique board now will add genuine historic character and scarcity to your collection.

Text Present

Front image, lower center:
"HAMPTON PARK 25810.J.V."

Back image, lower right:
"BEACHY HEAD. 50166.J.V."

Print analysis:
Both sides show continuous-tone photographic grain on matte, textured, heavy card stock with no visible halftone dot pattern, indicating they are real photographs rather than printed collotypes. The numeric codes followed by "J.V." match commercial negatives produced in the early 1900s for view-card and portfolio use. The single thick mount holding two different UK views suggests a custom album or sample board assembled not long after the negatives were made. Based on style, clothing, and lighthouse completion in 1902, the images likely date from the 1900-1910 period, with the prints made contemporaneously on photographic paper mounted to card. This is best classified as an original Type 1 double-sided photographic print, printed c1905-1910.

Condition: Photos are in fair to good antique condition. Please see photos for any tears, folds, smudges, or other age damage that may be present. Light foxing is present in some of the images in this collection.