Most National Trust houses have photographic collections which provide invaluable information about the house and the family.
The National Trust also cares for two particular properties significant for their place in the history of photography.
The Fox Talbot Museum of Photography at Lacock Abbey commemorates the achievements of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77), inventor of the modern photographic negative in 1840.
Fox Talbot lived at the abbey and his family later gave Lacock Abbey and village to the National Trust.
59 Rodney Street, Liverpool, was the former home and studio of Edward Chambré Hardman. The house and Hardman’s entire photographic output have been saved for preservation by the National Trust in association with Liverpool Record Office.
The first full season for visitors to 59 Rodney Street opened on 19 March 2005.
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