Appleton & Co

Appleton & Co
Horton Lane &
58&60 Manningham Lane
Bradford

Thomas William Appleton, was born in 1828 in Yarm, Yorkshire and was the son of a miller. He is shown in the 1861 Census to be living at 15 Brunswick Place, Bradford.

In 1859 Thomas opened a photographic studio in Horton Lane Bradford. The business first appears in Kelly's directory in 1861 and for another 50 years Thomas William Appleton and later Richard James Appleton, his son, ran a studio from there. Richard Appleton was an innovator and entrepreneur and invented the Cieroscope which allowed him to show a film of the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations to tens of thousands of people in Foster Square, Bradford on the very same evening as Queen Victorias parade had taken place in London. This was a remarkable achievement at the time. The story is told by the Telegraph and Argus.

(Appleton & Co - Leeds and Bradford Studios)