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The 6th November talk to launch Marsha O’Mahony's new River Voices book has had to be postponed. However a different talk on Rotherwas House and Park will now take place on the same date, also at the Barrels. Here are the details: 
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 The City and County Photographic Company studio at Bartonsham, writes Peter Klein who has been collecting Hereford carts-de-visite for some time, is a new one on me. Examples are certainly rare, so the studio is likely to have been trading for only a brief period. The style and finish of the printed mount is fairly precisely datable - probably during the period 1866 to 1874 - and the studio was perhaps based in a private house. The site of the present corner shop on the corner of Harold Street and Green Street was still shown as undeveloped in 1884, in the 1888 edition of the OS 25 inch map, so I was wondering where other commercial shop premises might have been situated in around 1870. I can find no mention of the company in the local trade directories, and I've drawn a blank there. As this studio probably didn't do very well and folded within a year or two, what few sitters did come to have their portraits taken are likely to have been very local to the Bartonsham area. Closer examination of the 1871 Census might show something, for instance there was a 28-year-old "photographic artist", Thomas A. Williams, living with his parents at Barrack Villa, 41 Harold Street (schedule no. 118), so he might be the photographer. He was still there in 1881. This picture - Credit: Ron Cosens
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