Bedford Lemere

Bedford Lemere & Co was a firm of British architectural photographers active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

[1][2] Bedford Lemere & Co. was the leading English firm of architectural photographers between 1870 and 1930, and pioneered the photography of new buildings.

Their images captured the use of new technologies such as the motor car, electric light and motion pictures and the introduction of the steel frame and reinforced concrete which revolutionised architecture.

Bedford Lemere & Co photographed buildings by notable architects; John Norton, Matthew Digby Wyatt, Ernest George, Ernest George, Harold Peto, Arthur Blomfield, Alfred Waterhouse and Edward Blakeway I'Anson who designed Winterfold House in Surrey.

The collection also includes some albums and day books, which give a unique insight into the company's activities.

First class smoking room in the RMS Orama , 1911