Street Market

A street market dominates the sunny side of the street, at the front are trestle tables and behind are covered stalls. The 'foggy' foreground indicates the movement of blurred figures who populate the market. On the opposite, shady side of the street, there is a row of shops, with awnings. Two horse drawn vehicles wait on either side of the street.
The image is faded and coated with an albumen varnish. All four corners of the print have been cut off.

Calvert Richard Jones was one of the first to learn of W.H. F Talbot's photographic discoveries in the late 1830s through Talbot's friends and relations who lived near to Jones in South Wales. Subsequently, Jones became one of the few Britons to produced a substantial body of calotypes in Britain and abroad. His work stands out in the early development of photography because of his ability to fuse his technical skill with the influence of his training as a watercolorist.

In 1853, Jones moved to Belgium and remained there until the death of his wife in 1856. Several of the photographs from this section of the album were made in Boulogne and it is likely that Jones used the Channel crossing to this port.

Grande Rue runs uphill from the harbour to the old walled town. Half way up the hill, the road widens by St Nicholas' Church and the market square of Place Dalton. In Jones's photograph the side of the church is visible on the right, behind the market stalls.
Note similarities with PH.108-1983, which may be a view from the opposite end of the street.

PH.98-1983