Research Forum

William Marchant Jones
published by Brian & Pam Airey on Sat, 10/05/2014 - 12:50

Keith Wadley (tina.wadley@btopenworld.com)

I live in the Mendips in Coleford Somerset and have been looking into the History of William Marchant Jones . William
Marchant Jones took a lot of photographs locally here at the first part of the last century and at one time his pictures were singed HJ . Now I notice that there are quite a few post cards from your local area saying that they are HJ series , I know we are 30 miles away but is it possible that these postcards are by WMJ or is it a photographer that is known by you and local to WSM ? I hope you can help me in this matter , thanks in anticipation

Keith Wadley

Comments ..

Submitted by Pat Hase on Wed, 21/05/2014 - 13:10

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question but thank you for introducing me to W M JONES and his alter ego "Jarge Balsh". I was fascinated to read about him on this blog and others who are interested in the area around Coleford may be equally enthralled.

I will contact Keith directly with a reply but if anyone does have the answer to his question can you post it here as well for us all to share. I'd love to know whether he was taking photographs in Weston-super-Mare.