Images of which east coast town have become widely known through the photographs of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)?
Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society and in other national collections. He married Eliza Weatherill Duck, the daughter of a local bootmaker, on 1 January 1875 and had a son and three daughters at his home in Sleights. He died on 31 May 1941 and was buried in Aislaby churchyard. Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe (6 October 1853 – 31 May 1941) was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century. He was born in
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