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King Street, Reading, c. 1893 postcard
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King Street, Reading, looking westwards, c. 1893. On the left, part of No. 25 (Botly and Lewis, jewellers); the sign at No. 9 (Edwin Moore and Sons, tailors); the corner of Minster Street; No. 134 Broad Street (Hounslow and Company, grocers); Nos. 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132 Broad Street (Wellsteed, Son and Company, drapers and ladies' outfitters). On the right, Nos. 4 and 5 King Street (John and Charles Simonds and Company, bankers); nos. 1 and 2 (Loveridge and Company, ironmongers). The gas-lamp on the left has the street name painted on the glass of its lantern. 1890-1899 : postcard with caption "King Street, 1887" by Berkshire County Library. Another postcard using this photograph at Dynix 1214256. Black and white negative by H. W. Taunt, Box 22 No. 9022.
Henry Taunt was an English photographer and publisher, born in Oxford in 1842. He is best known for his photographs of Oxford and the River Thames, taken between the 1860s and 1910s. Taunt began his career as a bookseller and publisher, but soon turned to photography. He opened his first photographic studio in Oxford in 1869 and quickly gained a reputation for the quality of his photographs of the city. In the 1870s Taunt began to concentrate on photographing the River Thames. He published a series of albums of his photographs of the river, which proved popular with tourists and locals alike. Taunt was also an early adopter of new photographic technologies such as collotype, which allowed him to produce high quality prints in large quantities. Taunt continued to photograph Oxford and the River Thames until his death in 1922. His photographs are now highly prized by collectors and historians as they provide a unique insight into life in Victorian and Edwardian England.
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