{"id":72639,"date":"2025-08-17T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72639\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:22:08","slug":"life-of-march-photographer-alice-askew-celebrated-at-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/72639\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of March photographer Alice Askew celebrated at talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Alice Askew, who was born in North Devon in 1868, spent around 50 years in March, making significant contributions to the town&#8217;s photographic history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  David Edwards, archivist of March Museum, presented an engaging talk on Alice&#8217;s life and work, showcasing a variety of her photographs taken each year between 1919 and 1949.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 1913, Alice became the manager at Messrs Brown &amp; Co, a photography shop on Broad Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She purchased the business in 1916 and became the photographer for The Cambridgeshire Times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In December 1929, a fire damaged the original premises, prompting Alice to relocate the shop to a corner of St Peter&#8217;s Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recommended Reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambstimes.co.uk\/news\/25381148.tribute-chatteris-men-vj-day-anniversary\/?rel=cl_lsa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tribute to Chatteris men for VJ Day anniversary<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alice&#8217;s legacy includes thousands of photographs capturing events and buildings in and around March.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She passed away in 1963 and was cremated in Peterborough.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The March Society&#8217;s next event is the AGM on Wednesday, September 17, at 7pm in March Library.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This will be followed by a talk from Chris Donnelly and Henry Stanier of the Cambridgeshire Geological Society.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambstimes.co.uk\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep up to date with the latest news across Fenland\u00a0by signing up to our newsletter email alerts he<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Have you got a story you want to share with us? Get in touch at: newsdesk@cambstimes.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Askew, who was born in North Devon in 1868, spent around 50 years in March, making significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-72639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}