Peter D Strelen wrote: "I am also interested in this family. I wonder if there is a connection between Lily LOUIS and Louisa S B von Arnswaldt who died Camberwell march qtr,1934 age 58 = 1876!!"
This is great extra info.
Lily is a bit of a mystery to me now. She may have just slightly altered her identity.
In 1902 she was writing to Winifred White who I think may have been the daughter of Field-Marshal Sir George Stuart White (born 6 July 1835, died 24 June 1912).
Can anyone confirm whether he had a daughter Winifred?
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Hermione's Twitter Challenge: Read and Review 2010 printed works in 2010.
I came across an extraordinary idea that in the year 1500 it was still humanly possible to read all the works ever printed before that date in one lifetime. Although I like to write I don't read enough. I am also dyslexic. I was diagnosed at 19.
I was living in Reading at the time!
Reading used to be the base for the British Dyslexia Association, which I always thought was an enjoyable coincidence.
Here is the challenge:
To read 2010 printed works in 2010.
With reviews and updates on Twitter.
"Printed Works" to include plays, novels, novellas, travel books, foodie books, history books, biographies, poetry, comedy, even photographic books (kidding!).
In fact anything hot of the press since Jan 1st 2010.
Maybe stretching to including new editions of old works if they are must-reads for 2010.
Will I go blind? Will I raise my IQ (if I ever had one in the first place) Will anyone else join me? Will I get out enough!!!This is a big challenge but if I can do it anyone can. We are already at Jan 7th. I'd better get started! Feel free to send me suggestions and review copies. hermione cameron (at) hotmail.com
I was living in Reading at the time!
Reading used to be the base for the British Dyslexia Association, which I always thought was an enjoyable coincidence.
Here is the challenge:
To read 2010 printed works in 2010.
With reviews and updates on Twitter.
"Printed Works" to include plays, novels, novellas, travel books, foodie books, history books, biographies, poetry, comedy, even photographic books (kidding!).
In fact anything hot of the press since Jan 1st 2010.
Maybe stretching to including new editions of old works if they are must-reads for 2010.
Will I go blind? Will I raise my IQ (if I ever had one in the first place) Will anyone else join me? Will I get out enough!!!This is a big challenge but if I can do it anyone can. We are already at Jan 7th. I'd better get started! Feel free to send me suggestions and review copies. hermione cameron (at) hotmail.com
Friday, 21 August 2009
NOTTING HILL BEHIND THE SCENES
From the Publisher
Hermione Cameron's commentary accompanies a unique collection of photographs and postcards and takes a sideways look at this popular London district, unearthing the notable, the quizzical and the amusing in Notting Hill's history.
Product Description
Discover London's Notting Hill as it was a hundred years ago.
Take a step back in time to the elegant Edwardian era and see the first photographs of Notting Hill tube station. Then follow the now famous routes to the bustling market stalls of Portobello Road and see where residents with some wonderful surnames lived. Find out where the only Jealous man in London was a pub landlord, the Madders sisters had a dancing school, where you could have found Mrs Memory's hat shop or hoped that spinster Miss Perfect eventually found Mr Right, all those years ago. With more than 200 images from photographs and vintage postcards.
ROBERT ELMS - BBC LONDON
Take a step back in time to the elegant Edwardian era and see the first photographs of Notting Hill tube station. Then follow the now famous routes to the bustling market stalls of Portobello Road and see where residents with some wonderful surnames lived. Find out where the only Jealous man in London was a pub landlord, the Madders sisters had a dancing school, where you could have found Mrs Memory's hat shop or hoped that spinster Miss Perfect eventually found Mr Right, all those years ago. With more than 200 images from photographs and vintage postcards.
ROBERT ELMS - BBC LONDON
"If you want to know what Notting Hill was like all those years ago, this is a very good place to start. It's 'Notting Hill Behind the Scenes,' and it's been compiled and lovingly annotated by Hermione Cameron."
Lucy Davies, Louise T Blouin Institute Talks
Lucy Davies, Louise T Blouin Institute Talks
"Cameron's book of photographs and postcards (the first in a Behind the Scenes series) surveys images of Notting Hill from a century ago; evidently, back then the area was populated by characters like the superbly monikered Mrs Memory and Miss Perfect, rather than celebrities and trustafarians."
TIME OUT LONDON
"Meet Walter Carter, west London fishmonger, here photographed with his wife, four of his six children and several hundred bloaters, kippers and oysters - a collection that must have made this a particularly pongy part of Portobello Road market. The market sprang up in the 1870s from a horse-trading fair, and was a regular fruit-and-veg market until antiques stalls started appearing after World War II. Carter is just one of Notting Hill's former residents and shopkeepers to appear in a new book of historic photographs of the area. We also liked the picture of a cramped corner shop that went by the name of Marks & Spencer. Whatever happened to them?"
Picture Postcard Monthly
"A Stand-out Book in the Genre. Notting Hill Behind the Scenes follows the familiar format of showing us what a particular place was like a century ago. The postcard illustrations have the starring role, and the introduction and captions serve as footnotes, a touch of extra detail for the observer. Yet Hermione Cameron's gone in search of the people who populated the streets all those years ago, and she makes us look at them, too, by the trick of giving us some of the pictures twice, the second time with part of the detail magnified. It's a double-take that has you flitting from the general to the particular and back again, and above all makes the characters come alive. The author's in your face treatment of Notting Hill's Edwardian residents is a thought-provoking master stroke. The introduction instantly focuses on the inhabitants rather than the buildings and their history. She gives us Miss Perfect, William Jealous and the Madders sisters, along with many other residents: 'Seeing a familiar street all those years ago made me wonder about the past overlapping with the present: how we may walk in someone else's footsteps, turn the same street corner, pass the same shop and cross the same road, and do all this a century apart.' So, before Marc Bolan lived at 57 Blenheim Crescent, Emily Needham was a dressmaker there. The captions investigate the human side of Notting Hill, probing the people who ran the shops, lived in houses and worked in businesses. Even if you begin by not knowing Notting Hill, you're soon inside it, an inquisitive voyeur. "
TIME OUT LONDON
"Meet Walter Carter, west London fishmonger, here photographed with his wife, four of his six children and several hundred bloaters, kippers and oysters - a collection that must have made this a particularly pongy part of Portobello Road market. The market sprang up in the 1870s from a horse-trading fair, and was a regular fruit-and-veg market until antiques stalls started appearing after World War II. Carter is just one of Notting Hill's former residents and shopkeepers to appear in a new book of historic photographs of the area. We also liked the picture of a cramped corner shop that went by the name of Marks & Spencer. Whatever happened to them?"
Picture Postcard Monthly
"A Stand-out Book in the Genre. Notting Hill Behind the Scenes follows the familiar format of showing us what a particular place was like a century ago. The postcard illustrations have the starring role, and the introduction and captions serve as footnotes, a touch of extra detail for the observer. Yet Hermione Cameron's gone in search of the people who populated the streets all those years ago, and she makes us look at them, too, by the trick of giving us some of the pictures twice, the second time with part of the detail magnified. It's a double-take that has you flitting from the general to the particular and back again, and above all makes the characters come alive. The author's in your face treatment of Notting Hill's Edwardian residents is a thought-provoking master stroke. The introduction instantly focuses on the inhabitants rather than the buildings and their history. She gives us Miss Perfect, William Jealous and the Madders sisters, along with many other residents: 'Seeing a familiar street all those years ago made me wonder about the past overlapping with the present: how we may walk in someone else's footsteps, turn the same street corner, pass the same shop and cross the same road, and do all this a century apart.' So, before Marc Bolan lived at 57 Blenheim Crescent, Emily Needham was a dressmaker there. The captions investigate the human side of Notting Hill, probing the people who ran the shops, lived in houses and worked in businesses. Even if you begin by not knowing Notting Hill, you're soon inside it, an inquisitive voyeur. "
The Hill Magazine
"We discover that the occupiers of 41 Pembridge Road offered the 'best prices for old artificial teeth' and that a Mr Simon Green lived in the current Travel Bookshop. If you're lucky you might even discover who used to call your house their own. Apart from the lack of cars and much smaller trees every road is charmingly, instantly identifiable."
Kensington and Chelsea News
"brings history to life.. discover the hidden stories which lie on every corner of our streets."
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale lived at 23 Elsham Road from 1903 to 1943 and I just wondered if there was a relative of hers that might have a photograph of her at this address?
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Thank you to Peter and Gabi Arnswald!
Brilliant! Thank you to the wonderfully helpful Peter and Gabi Arnswald http://www.arnswald.de/ for their family info:
"Levin Carl Bodo Anton Hubert von Arnswaldt, born 10 of June 1870 in Wiedenhausen/Germany, married in his first marriage 22 of April 1898 in Bournmouth/England Lily Louis, born 1876 in Bournmouth. This marriage was divorced in the year 1899." They also tell me that they are organising a huge family reunion which is due to take place in 2010. Now I just have to discover who Lily Louis was ..... a visit to the see the records of births, marriages and deaths in the National Archives at Kew beckons!
"Levin Carl Bodo Anton Hubert von Arnswaldt, born 10 of June 1870 in Wiedenhausen/Germany, married in his first marriage 22 of April 1898 in Bournmouth/England Lily Louis, born 1876 in Bournmouth. This marriage was divorced in the year 1899." They also tell me that they are organising a huge family reunion which is due to take place in 2010. Now I just have to discover who Lily Louis was ..... a visit to the see the records of births, marriages and deaths in the National Archives at Kew beckons!
Friday, 13 March 2009
Lily von Arnseraldt or Amseraldt in HOLLAND PARK
Another mystery may be solved today! A postcard of two young women arm in arm in 1902 shows Lily von Arnseraldt or Amseraldt and a friend and mentions Lady White in Roland Gardens, South Kensington. Does anyone out there have any idea who Lily was?
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
HOLLAND PARK BEHIND THE SCENES - Temptation!
March already! With deadlines approaching for the printing and pre-launch publicity for the new book, I'm still finding more images to include and characters who cannot be left out. The remit of the book is 200 images of Holland Park around a century ago but I have given in to temptation! The newest additions include Eugen Sandow, the celebrity bodybuilder, who lived at 161 Holland Park Avenue. He poses with rippling muscles and a fig leaf to protect his modesty! Is this too much for Holland Park residents?!
The Punch illustrator Phil May (1864 – 1903) lived at two addresses in Holland Park. There's a blue plaque to commemorate him at 20 HollandPark Road. He seems to have been very much loved. I am just reading Phil May, The Artist and His Wit by David Cuppleditch. Yesterday, a Phil May sketch arrived in the post. I bought it because it was fun and animated. Little did I know that May's drawings of the rather fetching young woman in the middle and the barmaid to one side are actually of the comedian and female impersonator Arthur Roberts (1852-1933), when he starred with H. O. Clarey in Claude Duval at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1894. Roberts was famous for singing 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow.' He's also credited with inventing the word ‘spoof’, the name he originally gave to a card game in the 1880s which involved a lot of nonsense and trickery and which has now come to mean a light parody or satirical immitation.
If anyone asks me, I say I write about dead people. But I adore those in the land of the living as well! Yesterday I spotted the incredibly tall Dan Cruikshank in Notting Hill Gate and found myself beaming at him - far too shy to mention how much I enjoy his BBC programmes: especially the ones on cinema photography 'The Lost World of Friese-Greene' and 'The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon.' Must send him both NOTTING HILL and HOLLAND PARK BEHIND THE SCENES to say thank you.
The Punch illustrator Phil May (1864 – 1903) lived at two addresses in Holland Park. There's a blue plaque to commemorate him at 20 HollandPark Road. He seems to have been very much loved. I am just reading Phil May, The Artist and His Wit by David Cuppleditch. Yesterday, a Phil May sketch arrived in the post. I bought it because it was fun and animated. Little did I know that May's drawings of the rather fetching young woman in the middle and the barmaid to one side are actually of the comedian and female impersonator Arthur Roberts (1852-1933), when he starred with H. O. Clarey in Claude Duval at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1894. Roberts was famous for singing 'Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow.' He's also credited with inventing the word ‘spoof’, the name he originally gave to a card game in the 1880s which involved a lot of nonsense and trickery and which has now come to mean a light parody or satirical immitation.
If anyone asks me, I say I write about dead people. But I adore those in the land of the living as well! Yesterday I spotted the incredibly tall Dan Cruikshank in Notting Hill Gate and found myself beaming at him - far too shy to mention how much I enjoy his BBC programmes: especially the ones on cinema photography 'The Lost World of Friese-Greene' and 'The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon.' Must send him both NOTTING HILL and HOLLAND PARK BEHIND THE SCENES to say thank you.
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