Arthur George Reynolds (1869->1929)

Arthur George Reynolds was the son of Frank Reynolds (c.1828-1895) who was an artist, born in London who worked extensively in Ireland. The family moved to Scarborough by 1890 when Franks was listed in Bulmer’s Directory. The following year ‘s census saw Arthur then aged 22 listed as a photographer and living Oak Road with the family. In 1893 he had his own studio in Valley Bridge Road. He worked from a studio in London between 1898 and 1901. The 1901 census shows him in Beckenham in Kent still practicing photography. He is listed in back in Scarborough in Kelly’s Directory for 1921.

In 1898 the Holloway and Hornsey Press carried a number of adverts for A. Reynolds, formerly of Scarborough as a portrait and architectural photographer at the Finsbury Park Studio in Seven Sisters Road. His advert lists a number of Scarborough people as patrons, Sir Charles Legard (Scarborough MP, 1874-1880), Sir George Sitwell (resident of Woodend and Scarborough MP, 1885-1886, 1892-1895), his wife Ida Sitwell and Joseph Compton Rickett (Scarborough MP, 1895-1906).

Frank and his wife Jane (1830-1892) also had a daughter, Madeline (b.1868) who was like Arthur born in Dublin and moved with her parents to Scarborough. Frank and Jane are buried in Deans Road Cemetery.