| Administrative History | Vernon, the eldest child of Thomas and Mary Ann Lamb, was born on 15 March 1870 in Wolverhampton. By 1881 his mother had died, his father had re-married and the Lambs had re-located to 105 Gerard Street in Derby, where Vernon attended the Derby School of Art and by 1891 but was working as a photographer. He married Nora Elizabeth Calow at Christ Church in 1895 and they continued to live and work in Derby until late 1907. They and their daughter Alice moved to Matlock Bank, probably in early in 1910. On 28 Oct 1914 Vernon enlisted in the army and he proceeded to take photographs of camp life and of his regiment's time in Buxton, Luton, Epping and Watford. Vernon died at the end of 1943.
His collection of negatives and cameras were passed on to his daughter and then grandson, Anthony Gregory, a Hertfordshire press photographer. On his grandson’s death the collection was gifted to Peter White, a well-known camera collector and photographic historian. Peter scanned approximately half of the collection and made them available to Ann Andrews to put on her website The Andrews Pages (www.andrewsgen.com) where further research was carried out on these images to identify people and places. Peter White died in 2018 and his collection was donated to the Derbyshire Record Office in January 2020. |