Herbert Lionel Kettle

No adverts have yet been identified for Herbert Kettle but he was included in Kelly’s Directories in 1931 and 1921. Kettle must have established his business before World War I. He is listed as the official photographer for the Pickering Pageant of August 1910. In the National Trust collection there is a photograph of a group of school girls by Kettle dated summer 1921. He had an entry accepted for the Royal Photographic Society exhibition in 1933. He operated from an address in Ramshill Road.

Portrait of unknown actress from the Open Air Theatre, by Herbert Kettle, Scarborough
back of photograph with the stamp of Herbert Kettle of Scarborough
detail of back of photograph by Herbert Kettle of Scarborough

Portrait of Dorothy Kingston starring as Elizabeth in Tanhauser, an opera by Richard Wagner at the Open Air Theatre, 25 July - 12 September 1938

Print (H. 278mm x W. 197mm)

Photographic Practice

  • Portraiture and landscape

Studios

3 West Street, Scarborough - 1913

18 Ramshill Road, Scarborough - 1910-1938

References

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘The Pickering Pageant (or Historical Play)’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1162/ (accessed 29 December 2024)

Royal Photographic Society Journal, 1933, Vol. 73, p.355

Museum Collections

National Trust Collection, Quarry Bank Mill, NT 1460801

Stories from Scarborough, The Open Air Theatre: a Chronology of Spectacular Shows (accessed 31 October 2024)