Black and white/sepia (delete as appropriate)

Acc.no: PEZPH : 2016.50.316

Identification

Item: Derelict house in which Thomas Holloway once lived. Lower Quarter, Ludgvan.

Description: A photograph of the derelict house in which Thomas Holloway of Holloway's Pills and Ointments once lived, with piles of rubble to the front and side and a workman stood with hands on hips, at the rear of the house. Thomas Holloway was born in Devonport in 1800, his father was a baker and moved to Penzance soon after, before moving to Ludgvan. Thomas was apprenticed to a chemist moving to France for 3 years and returning to London in 1831. He started making his ointments in his mother's saucepans and placed his first advertisements in Sunday papers by 1837. Business boomed and his advertising bill by 1837 was £40,000. He claimed his pills and ointments would cure most ailments including rheumatism, aches and pains along with disorders of the chest and throat, sores and ulcers. By 1847 he was worth £1/4 million (over £25m in 2016) and his business was still growing. Thomas Holloway then financed the building of a sanatorium and a college in Egham, Surrey, for male and female students (among the first to take girls) and was opened in 1886 by Queen Victoria as the "Royal Holloway University". The property now standing on the Holloway plot is a 90 year old house "The Stannery" on Blowing House Hill, Ludgvan. The house in the left hand corner of the photograph is known as "Rosemount" and has recently had its chimneys removed.

Condition: Good

Description

Material: Photographic paper

Production

Method: Printed

Category: Photography

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