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GE - Gentry Collection
1 - Card indices to the photographs taken by South Lancashire Newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
2 - Photographers' diaries for the South Lancashire Newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
3 - Photographic negatives for South Lancashire Newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
4 - Photographic negatives of 'Historical Value' (HV) for South Lancashire newspapers, mainly relating to the 'St.Helens Reporter'
5 - Leigh old pictures
6 - Aerial photographs
7 - Knowsley Hall and Park glass negatives
8 - A collection of prints and glass negatives acquired from St.Helens Reporter
1 - "Other People's" glass negatives
2 - Glass negatives acquired by St.Helens Reporter
3 - Prints from other people's glass negatives acquired by St.Helens Reporter
1 - Museum in Victoria Park, St.Helens
2 - Wesleyan Chapel, Park Road, Parr, St.Helens (new building)
3 - Wesleyan Chapel, Park Road, Parr, St.Helens (new building)
4 - Interior of chapel, possibly the Wesleyan Chapel, Park Road, Parr, St.Helens
5 - Unidentified cottage (brick walls, stone slats, roof ivy-clad) with man and 3 women at door
6 - Images of grocer's wagon marked "Frank Houlton, Grocer, Higher Parr Street, St.Helens", loaded with loaves of bread, in a street of terraced houses
7 - Exterior of shop decorated probably to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII
8 - Exterior of shop, "The Duke Street Drug Stores J W Jackson", 7 Duke Street at corner of Lowe Street, St.Helens
9 - Main south front of Bold Hall, with 3 men on steps
10 - Seated man with baby and small dog
11 - Baby on chair beside parlour palm in fine pot, on small round table
12 - Young boy and girl probably William A and Annie B Jackson
13 - Seated woman with baby
14 - Seated man with standing boy and girl: probably Walter Jackson with William and Annie
15 - Seated woman
16 - Young man in suit and tie
17 - Old seated man in suit
18 - Seated boy in suit
19 - Young boy in velvet jacket and fancy collar: probably William A Jackson
20 - Young girl with 2 older girls, 1 wearing an apron
21 - Baby sitting on chair, possibly William Topping
22 - Group of 4 men, 3 women, girl, boy and baby
23 - Man in military uniform
24 - Two women
25 - Group images
26 - Child (probably a boy), holding a parasol, standing beside an aspidistra in a fine pot on stand
27 - Group of 3 women with boy and girl
28 - Group of 2 women with girl, boy and baby
29 - Young man seated beside potted plant on stand
30 - Young man seated beside potted plant on stand
31 - Man, older woman and girl: probably Walter A, Betsy and Beatrice B Jackson
32 - Boy, girl and baby: probably William A and Annie B Jackson, and William Topping
33 - Young woman and man in fancy dress: probably Beatrice B and Bertram W Jackson
34 - Young boy with baby
35 - Man in military uniform (Corporal) seated beside potted plant on stand
36 - Young woman in fancy dress: probably Beatrice B Jackson
37 - Old, bearded man with young boy: boy is probably William A Jackson
38 - Seated woman with man in Corporal's uniform
39 - Seated old bearded man with you boy and girl, young children are probably William A and Annie B Jackson
40 - 2 men in athletic clothing
41 - Young girl with parasol on chair beside potted plant on stand
42 - Group of 5 women of different ages, in fine clothes and hats, possible at the wedding of Mary Alice Jackson and Joseph Topping
43 - Group of 2 women and 1 man, with 2 older and 2 younger children
44 - Woman with 2 young children: probably Margaret Jackson with William A and Annie B Jackson
45 - Girl and boy: probably Beatrice B and Bertram W Jackson
46 - Young woman standing: probably Beatrice B Jackson
47 - Group of 4 women, 3 men, boy, girl and baby
48 - Young man in fancy dress: probably Bertram W Jackson
49 - Old bearded man with young boy and girl, children are probably William A and Annie B Jackson
50 - Group of 4 men, 3 women, boy, girl and baby
51 - 2 young men, seated at left is probably "George"
52 - Child standing beside potted plant on stand
53 - Sailor
54 - Man with 2 young children: probably Walter A Jackson with William A and Annie B Jackson
55 - Woman with child
56 - Group of man, 2 women, with 2 older and 2 younger children
57 - Family group of man and woman with 8 children
58 - Woman with 2 children: probably Margaret Jackson with Annie B and William A Jackson
59 - 2 seated women, with potted plants
60 - Young man
61 - Child in open coffin
62 - Corporal of an Infantry Regiment
63 - Young girl in armchair, holding a doll, beside a potted palm on a small table
64 - Man and woman with baby
65 - Old, bearded man, seated
66 - Man with 2 young girls
67 - Woman and man with baby on his lap
68 - Half length portrait: probably self portrait of Walter A Jackson
69 - 2 men wearing bowler hats (one wearing a medal, the same man as in GE/8/1/460 etc) with 4 young boys, the second from left probably William A Jackson
70 - Man wearing sailor's uniform (without cap)
71 - Group of 2 men, 2 women, 2 boys and 2 girls
72 - Young woman with baby sitting on a toy dog
73 - Young boy sitting on a chair, probably William A Jackson
74 - Seated man with boy and girl
75 - Young couple
76 - Young woman with baby sitting on a toy dog
77 - Young child in fancy costume with toy horse
78 - Seated woman next to potted geranium on small table
79 - 2 seated women: probably Mary Alice Topping and Beatrice B Jackson
80 - Group of 1 man, 2 women, 2 girls and a boy
81 - Group of 2 men (one in sailor's uniform without hat) woman and child
82 - Seated woman, probably Margaret Jackson
83 - Young man seated beside potted geranium on stand: probably "Dick"
84 - Group of 3 women and 1 young man: woman at back left is probably Mary Alice Topping (nee Jackson)
85 - Woman in ball dress: probably Mary Alice Topping (nee Jackson)
86 - Man, woman and baby: probably Joseph, Mary Alice and William Topping
87 - Man in military uniform, including forage cap
88 - 3 women washing clothes: woman at right is probably Margaret Jackson
89 - Seated man in suit and high crowned bowler hat: probably a self portrait of Walter A Jackson
90 - Group of 2 women, 1 man, boy and baby: probably Betsy Jackson, Joseph Topping, William A Jackson and Mary Alice Topping with baby William
91 - Half length portrait of man: probably self portrait of Walter A Jackson
92 - Young man, standing
93 - Young man, wearing cap probably George
94 - Man seated, with younger man standing probably "Tom" and "George"
95 - Young man standing
96 - Man and woman with 3 girls
97 - Seated man with girl and boy: probably Walter A Jackson with Annie B and William A Jackson
98 - Seated woman with boy and girl: probably Margaret with William A and Annie B Jackson
99 - Man with woman and baby
100 - 2 seated men with standing boy
101 - Man with woman and baby
102 - 2 men standing beside potted plant on stand
103 - Man with boy and girl
104 - Possibly a wedding couple: probably Joseph and Mary Alice Topping
105 - Sailor
106 - Rear of properties, showing a chimney sweep up a ladder
107 - Young man with high collar: probably Bertram W Jackson
108 - 4 men with girl and boy: identified (from back and from left to right) Bertram Jackson, "George", Joseph Topping, Annie B Jackson, unidentified old man, William A Jackson
109 - Young man in sailor's uniform (without hat), sitting beside a potted geranium on a stand
110 - 3 women, one holding a photograph album
111 - Group of 5 men standing in front of a gatehouse, possibly the Grand Lodge, Knowsley Park
112 - 2 soldiers in khaki uniforms with forage caps standing in front of a tent
113 - Group of 1 man, 3 women, boy and girl: probably (from back and from left to right) Jabez W Jackson, Betsy Jackson, Mary Alice Topping, Margaret Jackson, Bertram W Jackson and Beatrice B Jackson
114 - Group of 2 men and 3 women, 1 holding a baby
115 - Middle aged couple seated either side of a potted plant on stand: probably Betsy and Jabez Jackson
116 - Close up of a woman: probably Betsy Jackson
117 - Standing woman: probably Betsy Jackson
118 - Close up a woman: probably Betsy Jackson
119 - Old woman in chair
120 - Standing man: probably Jabez Jackson
121 - Woman in nurse's uniform
122 - Couple sitting either side of a potted plant on a stand, the man in a Corporal's uniform without hat
123 - Boy and girl: probably William A and Annie B Jackson
124 - Standing couple: probably Mary Alice and Joseph Topping
125 - Old man seated beside potted plant on stand
126 - Man, woman with baby, girl and boy
127 - Young woman and man in fancy dress: probably Beatrice B and Bertram W Jackson
128 - Seated old woman
129 - Old couple sitting either side of potted plant on stand
130 - 2 women, 1 holding young child, with older girl and boy
131 - Street frontage including 106 and 104 Higher Parr Street, St.Helens: Benjamin Barr's hairdresser's shop and Frederick Kelsall's bootmaker's shop
132 - Old woman in doorway and 2 younger women outside a shop, which has a sign reading "Letter B…..closes 5….."
133 - Ruined building: possible the aftermath of the Kurtz Chemical Works explosion
134 - Street frontage, including "B Barr and Sons Umbrella Makers" and "F Kelsall, Fingerpost Boot Repairing Factory, est'd 1885, the latter premises which has a sign painter at work on ladders: identified as 106 and 104 Higher Parr Street, St.Helens
135 - Woman standing at gate of a chapel which has "Jubilee Primitive Methodist Chapel A.D. 1861" marked on stone in gable
136 - 2 women standing outside a shop marked "High Class Specialities"
137 - Young woman (possibly in a maid's outfit) on a tricycle on a cobbled surface in front of a pair of boarded doors in an outbuilding
138 - Interior of a ruined building: probably the Theatre Royal, St.Helens after a fire
139 - Scene of devastation, including man with bowler hat and umbrella: probably in Warrington Old Road, St.Helens after the Kurtz explosion
140 - Scene on a canal aqueduct: probably at the Anderton Boat Lift
141 - Interior of a ruined building: probably the Theatre Royal, St.Helens after a fire
142 - Scene of devastation, showing a policeman probably the aftermath of the Kurtz Explosion
143 - Scene of devastation: probably the aftermath of the Kurtz explosion
144 - Young man in sailor's uniform with another young man on a bicycle
145 - 2 women and a girl in a country garden
146 - Scene of devastation: showing also a Policeman, probably the aftermath of the Kurtz explosion
147 - Woman in apron walking, seen through a door (probably of J W Jackson Chemist's shop, 107 Higher Parr St, St.Helens)
148 - 3 children in a back yard, boy at left is possibly William A Jackson
149 - Woman and man with girl and boy
150 - Old man and woman standing with 2 younger women in front of a thatched cottage
151 - Image of young man, probably Walter A Jackson
152 - Woman standing beside child in a pushchair
153 - 3 children playing in a back yard
154 - 2 young men and a boy in a back yard, showing also the photographer's shadow
4 - Contact prints from some glass negatives acquired by St.Helens Reporter
5 - Original envelopes for negatives at GE/8/1
6 - Original envelopes for negatives at GE/8/2
7 - The original wooden box, handmade from a larger packing case bearing some original lettering
9 - Royal visits to St.Helens
10 - Photographs of various subjects, including South Lancashire Newspapers operations
11 - Printing plates
12 - South Lancashire Newspapers' microfilms of local newspapers for St.Helens and vicinity
13 - St.Helens Reporter cuttings book
14 - South Lancashire Newspapers staff signing in book
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