Frederick "Fred" Goldring (1897 1997) was an English amateur photographer, and a recorder of churches and historic buildings. Goldring was born in 1897 in

Lee, Kent Plumstead (1855–1894) and then Lee (1894–1900) was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London from 1855 to 1900. It was formed as the Plumstead district by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 and was governed ...

and he lived in the

Weald The Weald () is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. It has three separate parts: the sandstone "High Weald" in the ...

from the age of three. From 192659, he ran the Timberscombe Guest House near Midhurst, West Sussex. It was much frequented after World War II by people on field courses led by the geologist, geomorphologist and geographer Sidney Wooldridge, of

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

. Goldring was a hobby photographer with his own

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, whose pictures were published in guide books and at photographic exhibitions. In 1953, he co-authored with Wooldridge ''The Weald'', a book in the New Naturalist series. , he remains the only photographer to have been named as an author in that series. " e match of plates and text in this book is a good deal better than average, and the splendid pictures have a consistency of style from being the work of a single person."

Publications

* New Naturalist No. 26.

References

1897 births Date of birth missing Year of death missing Place of death missing Photographers from Kent Nature photographers New Naturalist writers {{UK-photographer-stub