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| RefNo | PP/WSL/P002546 |
| Short title | Lancing Grammar School, Lancing |
| Full description | Lancing Grammar School, corner of South Street and Alma Street, Lancing. Later became the Chestnuts Convalescent Home. Boys playing cricket in the foreground.
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]. |
| People | DS/UK/54 |
| Date | c1860 |
| Period | Victorian |
| Period dates | 20 June 1837-22 Jan 1901 |
| Format | Photograph |
| Format2 | Half of a stereoscopic photograph |
| Owner | West Sussex County Council Library Service |
| Subject | Education/Schools |
| Social & Family Issues/Children |
| Sport/Cricket |
| Architecture/Period/Victorians (1837-1901) |
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Places
| Place Entry | Code |
| /Lancing//West Sussex | NA441 |