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RefNoPP/WSL/P002541
Short titleLancing Grammar School
Full descriptionLancing Grammar School. Children wearing hats are standing in front of the school. Some have cricket bats. Woman standing in the school grounds. Brick chimneys. Flint walls and brick quoins and tile roofing.
This is one of two images forming a stereoscopic photograph. Stereoscopic cameras came into fashion in the UK after being displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851, when Queen Victoria ordered her own viewers and pictures. The technique, then in its infancy, involved taking two simultaneous exposures of the same image, which when viewed together using a stereoscopic viewer appeared in 3D. The 3D effect was most successful if the image had a strong feature in the foreground and a full range of features from mid-ground backwards. The WSPP database includes 13 photographs of Lancing and Shoreham made by Robert Wright of Lancing Grammar School in the late 1850s. [Information courtesy of Tony Vinicombe of the Stereoscopic Society].
PeopleDS/UK/54
Datec1858
PeriodVictorian
Period dates20 June 1837-22 Jan 1901
FormatPhotograph
Format2Half of a stereoscopic photograph
OwnerWest Sussex County Council Library Service
SubjectEducation/Schools
Clothing/Hats
Sport/Cricket
Social & Family Issues/Children
Social & Family Issues/Women
Architecture/Cladding/Walls/Brick
Architecture/Structure/Flint

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Place EntryCode
/Lancing//West SussexNA441
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