Each month local historian Barry Cuff shares a selection of rarely-before seen images from his unique archive (more on his collection here).
This month Barry has picked Chapman & Son of Dawlish.
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‘Chapman & Son of Dawlish in Devon photographed and published cards of just three seemingly-random Dorset towns: Lyme Regis, Wimborne and Sturminster Newton. I have been collecting since 1974 and have never seen cards by them of any other Dorset location.’