Early Photography - Photographic Societies

Amateur Photographic Association
Objectives: [Taken from an advert for 1864 Exhibition] This Association has for its objectives the interchange and publication of the productions of Amateur Photographers in order, on the one hand, that they may realise the full value of every negative which they possess, and on the other that the thousands of interesting and valuable negatives now buried in the plate-boxes of Amateurs may be brought before the notice and placed within the reach of the general public.
1862	Address: 26 Haymarket [but no reference to any meetings]
1863	Address: 26 Haymarket [but no reference to any meetings]
1864	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]
1865	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]
1866	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]
1867	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]
1868	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]
1869	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]
1870	Address: 12 York Place, Portman Square [but no reference to any meetings]

Archæological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland Name change: Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (1867)
1861	Annual Meeting - at Peterborough?
1862	Annual Meeting - [where?]
1863	Annual Meeting - at Rochester
1864	Annual Meeting - at Warwick
1865	Annual Meeting - at Dorchester
1866	Annual Meeting - at London
1867	Meetings in Rooms of Arundel Society, 24 Old Bond Street at 4pm on 1^st Fri
1868	Annual Congress - Lancaster Meetings in Rooms of the Institute, 16 New Burlington Street, London at 4pm on 1^st Fri (Nov to Dec and Feb to July)
1869	Annual Congress - Bury St Edmunds
1868	Annual Congress - Leicester

British Archæological Association Established 1843
1861	18^th Annual Congress - August 1861
1862	19^th Annual Congress - August 1862 - Leeds
1863	20^th Annual Congress - August 1863 - Leeds
1864	General Meetings - 2^nd + 4^th Wednesdays (Nov to May) at 3 ½ pm (!) 21^st Annual Congress - August 1864 - Ipswich
1865	Public Meetings: 2^nd + 4^th Wednesdays (Nov to June 14) at 32 Sackville Street, Piccadilly West 22^nd Annual Congress - August 1865 - Durham
1866	Meetings at 8.30pm on 2^nd and 4^th Wed (Jan to May) and 2^nd Wed (June)
1867	Meetings at 8.30pm on 2^nd and 4^th Wed (Jan to May) and 2^nd Wed (June)
1868	Meetings at 8.30pm on 2^nd and 4^th Wed (Jan to May) and 2^nd Wed (June)
1869	Meetings at 8.30pm on 2^nd and 4^th Wed (Jan to May) and 2^nd Wed (June)
1870	Meetings at 8.30pm on 2^nd and 4^th Wed (Jan to May) and 2^nd Wed (June)

Architectural Photographic Association

Objects:

1. To procure and supply to subscribers, photographs of architectural work in all countries

2. To form a collection of such photographs

3. And, in any other manner, to render the Art of Photography serviceable to the Profession

1861

Address: 9 Conduit Street, London

British Association for the Advancement of Science
1861	Meeting - August 1861 - Manchester
1862	Meeting - 1 October 1862 - Cambridge
1863	Meeting - end-August - Newcastle
1864	Meeting - end-August/start-September - Bath
1865	Meeting - Birmingham
1866	Meeting - Nottingham
1867	[no mention in Almanac]
1868	Meeting - Norwich
1869	Meeting - Exeter
1870	Meeting - Liverpool

Birmingham Photographic Society
1861	· Ordinary Meetings at Birmingham Odd Fellows Hall, Temple Street · At 8pm on Last Tues of each month (except June and July) · AGM on Last Tues of Oct.
1862	· At 6.30 pm on 2^nd Tues of each month (except June and July) · AGM on 2^nd Tues of Oct.
1863	· At 6.30 pm on 2^nd Tues of each month (except June and July) · AGM on 2^nd Tues of Oct.

Blackheath Photographic Society

1861

· Meet at Golf Club House

· At 8pm - 3^rd Monday of each month (Nov to June)

· AGM - 3^rd Mon March

1862

Ordinary Meetings of the Society are for the present suspended. Its affairs are managed by a Sub-Committee of the Officers, and from time to time prints are distributed.

Bradford Photographic Society
1861	Ordinary Meetings held at Chapel House, James Street At 8pm on 1^st Wednesday of each month AGM - November - date not fixed
1862	Ordinary Meetings held at St George’s Hall
1863	Ordinary Meetings in the residences of various members
1864	AGM - December

Bristol Photographic Society

1869

Ordinary Meetings held at Philosophical Institute
(or elsewhere as the committee may deem desirable).

At 7.30pm on 4^th Thursday (October to June)

AGM - 1^st Wednesday of March

Bristol Photographic Society

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Journal first reported details of Bristol Photographic Society in its 1870 edition. The year of establishment was given as 1869.

- President: Dr Ellicott, Lord Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol.

- Secretary: W H Barton.

- Other Office Bearers and Committee Members - details here.

Similar entries appeared in the 1871 and 1872 editions of this publication, but not in 1873.

Bristol & Clifton Amateur Photographic Association

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Journal first reported details of Bristol & Clifton Photographic Society in its 1873 edition.

- Meetings: 7.30pm on 3rd Wednesday of each month
at Philosophical Institute, Royal Promenade.

- President: W H Warner. He had previously been Treasurer of the Bristol Photographic Society.

- Secretary: Harry Daniel. He had not been on the committee of the Bristol Photographic Society.

The Bristol & Clifton Amateur Photographic Association appears to have survived for only one or perhaps two years. It was not listed in the British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Journal for 1875. I don't know whether or not it was listed in the 1874 edition. I have not been able to trace a copy of this edition.

Chorlton Photographic Society
1861	Meetings at Chorlton Town Hall, 31 Princess Street, Manchester at 8pm on 2^nd Wed of each month (except Jul and Aug) AGM - April
1862	at 7pm on the 2^nd Thursday
1863	at 7pm on the 2^nd Thursday
1864	Meetings at 31 Peter Street, Manchester AGM 2^nd Thursday April

Edinburgh Photographic Society
1862	Meetings at 18 George Street, Edinburgh At 8pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 1^st Wed) AGM - 1^st Wed Dec
1863	Meetings at Religious Institution Rooms, 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 1^st Wed)
1864	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)
1865	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)
1866	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)
1867	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)
1868	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)
1869	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)
1870	At 8.15pm - 1^st & 3^rd Wednesday of each month (except Jun to Sep when meeting = 3^rd Wed)

City of Glasgow & West of Scotland Photographic Society

NAME CHANGED 1863 to:

Glasgow Photographic Association

1861

Ordinary Meetings at Literary & Philosophical Society, 36 George Street

At 7pm - 1^st Thursday of each month (Oct to May)

AGM - 1^st Thu of Mar

1862

Ordinary Meetings at Religious Institute Rooms

At 8pm - 1^st Thursday of each month (Oct to May)

AGM - 1^st Thu of Jan

1863

Ordinary Meetings at Exhibition Rooms, 93 Bath Street

At 8pm - 1^st Thursday of each month (Sep to May)

AGM - 1^st Thu of Sep

1864

Ordinary Meetings at Andersonion University, George Street

At 8pm -2^nd Wednesday of each month (Sep to May)
+ extra meetings during the Session

AGM at the commencement of the Session on a day fixed by the Council

1865