Thomas Taylor and Son(s)

Producing printed postcards from the early 1900s, Thomas Taylor and Son(s) maybe a company based on Thomas Taylor’s photographic business, however there is a Thomas F. Taylor on the census in 1891 who is a printer and confectioner born in Bedale. The business is first advertised with an address in Newborough in the United Association of Photography in 1878 when they are offering for visitors photographic views of Scarborough (Bayliss pers com). The same advert is repeated in the Scarborough Gazette two years later. Ham suggests that they were producing postcards from before 1905 and at least until the first world war. He also suggests that they employed the photographer J. W. Williams. They also produced guide books and other souvenir publications from the late 1890s.

Some of the postcards seen online suggest that H. O. T.(aylor) is a continuation of the sane company, using the same negatives.