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Yes, it's a brilliant match!

Absolutely brilliant. You've cracked it!! Wow, so cool. She took many theatrical photos and the signature is the same. Thank you so much! Now to find out when she died and whether someone still has copyright!!

Hi pjmburns - many thanks for info. I'm trying to check out the London Firm, by that name, but can't find it anywhere. I'm new to all this. I'm going to look in newspaper archives - is there anywhere else I could look?

Cool - that may be it. I'll check it out. Photo has a stamp on the bank, saying: Perfect Photo Repro. Co. - with a Temple Bar address, but I believe this was from reprints i.e. taking the negatives in for extra prints whilst on theatrical tour.

Thanks for reply. Yes, could be Carrs but as you say the first names don't fit - still I may check it out anyway.

Cool - thanks for info. Yes, does look like London. I'll check it out.

Hi I have some old theatrical family photos, but do not know which photographer took them. My family were from Handsworth and normally used Birmingham photographers. The attached photo was taken in the 1940s, because there are only three people in the act and normally my father would have been...

I've also some good family photographs - on postcards - taken by Purcell and Betts 57 Aston Road, North Aston Manor. Does anyone know who these photographers were and when they closed their studio/s and when they died?

Thanks for your reply. Wasn't sure when/if Malcolm Dyche had died. Thought he may have.

Hi - thanks for your info. That's cool.

I'm writing a book about my Father's adagio dance act that toured theatres throughout Britain between 1932 - 1955. My Father came from Handsworth and the act (Les Cygne Four) often used Ernest Dyche for their main theatrical photographs. I have a number of original theatrical photographs of Les...