Professional Photographers

Colin Campbell

Studios

Colin Campbell opened two studios in Edinburgh in 1916 - one at 32 Princes Street and the other at 39 South Bridge.  He had several changes of address over the next five years, then moved to a single studio at 100 Princes Street from 1922 until 1925.

Addresses in Directories

The Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory for 1916 lists Colin Campbell as a photographer based at 39 North Bridge.  But I have one of his cartes de visite bearing the address 39 South Bridge.  I have assumed that the address on the carte de visite is correct and that the address in the directory is incorrect.  

The address, 39 South Bridge was used by a succession of photographers over the period of about 60 years, beginning 1858.

32, 71, 100 Princes Street

The Princes Street addresses of Colin Campbell's studios between 1916 and 1925, as listed in the Post Office Directories, are Nos. 32, 71 and 100 Princes Street.

31 Princes Street

However Sandy from Musselburgh, East Lothian has now shown me a postcard portrait of a WW1 soldier with a blind stamp in the corner giving the address:

 'Colin Campbell, 31 Princes Street, Edinburgh'.

He probably did not stay at this address for long.

His studio addresses changed fairly frequently.  It seems that the Post Office Directory, which was published annually, was not able to keep up with all his moves.  When might he have been based at 31 Princes Street?

Colin Campbell  -  studio addresses and dates

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