Sheringham Books
Below is a selection of books about Sheringham and Norfolk:
Olive Edis (1876 - 1955) is one of this country's most important pioneer women photographers. With a blossoming circle of Edwardian Society sitters, including aristocratic and royal faces it would have been thoroughly understandable had her fashionable photographic studio become her entire cosseted world. This lady however, had a different spark of steel in her make-up. It was no small compliment to be commissioned to record the work of the Women's Services at the end of the First World War - the only woman photographer so chosen. Chance and family holidays had led Olive Edis to North Norfolk, and in particular to Sheringham, at that time transforming itself from fishing village to fashionable seaside resort. Recognising that much of the old world was being lost, Olive began to photograph many of the fishermen whose way of life had not changed for generations but was soon to be swept away. It was in this village of Upper Sheringham, in 1925, that Cyril John Nunn!
grew up. Taken under ...
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A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards of Sheringham & Beeston.
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