Magic Lantern Slide: Cheese Market, Mount Street, Leicester
This image by William Weaver Baker shows the Buttercross in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire built in 1793. This structure is now known as the Butter Market rather than the Cheese Market as Weaver Baker labelled it. Weaver Baker predominantly took photographs of buildings and objects in Exeter, but did go further afield like this example shows. The colouring of the slide appears to be due to chemical decay.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/133
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Cheese Market, Mount Street, Leicester
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'LEICESTER CHEESE MARKET' on top edge; handwritten 'Cheese Market. Mount Sorrel. Leicester' on mount
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
