Finch's Avenue [Croxley Green] - No. 32

Image supplied by Janet Bayliss

Albert Arthur Darrah, born in 1890 in Rickmansworth and in 1911 his occupation was described as an "emulsion mixer" as an employee in a "Photo Works"- which suggests that he prepared photographic emulsions. He fought in the First World War and married Annie Wells in 1920. I don't think they had any children. His father, William was a blacksmith, and Albert may well have been working from the blacksmith's shop as a photographer by 1926 but his father's name appears in the trade directory as the "photographer" in that year. In 1929 he was listed as a Photographer at 213 High Street, Rickmansworth, and his wife was separately listed as a shopkeeper at the same address. He was still there in 1960 - but just trading as a grocer - and is not listed in the 1968 directory. He died in the Oxford area in 1973.

Cards currently (or recently) on ebay

General View of Chorleywood - No. 3

Church Parade, Rickmansworth - No. 5

Croxley Green - No. 6

Flaunden - No.7

Chorleywood Common - No. 15

Catholic Church, Rickmansworth - No. 25

Bury Lane, Rickmansworth

A. Darrah - No Number

War Memorial, Rickmansworth - No number

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