William Hayes (1871–1940) was a Victorian
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographers
As in other ...
in
York
York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
[Buchanan, Terry (1986) ''William Hayes, 1871-1940: York Photographic Artist''. Beverley: Hutton Press, ]
He moved to the small village of
Hutton-le-Hole
Hutton-le-Hole is a small village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, about north-west of Pickering. It is a popular scenic village within the North York Moors National Park. Sheep roam the streets at will ...
in the North York Moors in 1911, and his studio is now erected there in the Ryedale Folk Museum. (The museum is an open-air museum with other re-erected North Yorkshire buildings
The Hayes photographs include some of the family in the studio, which was built of corrugated aluminium with large glass windows. Many other photographs are of farm workers around Hutton-le-Hole.
Gallery
File:William Hayes York City Archives Members of Layerthorpe Adult school cca 1907.jpg, Members of Layerthorpe Adult school pictured at Easingwold in 1907
File:William Hayes York City Archives North-Eastern Railway Company Offices on Station Rise cca 1906.jpg, North-Eastern Railway Company Offices on Station Rise, York, c.1906.
File:William Hayes York City Archives children playing near Monk Bridge 1900´s.jpg, Children playing near Monk Bridge, York, c.1900s.
References
External links
* His photos in York City Archive
19th-century English photographers
1871 births
1940 deaths
Photographers from Yorkshire
People from Ryedale (district)
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