W H S 'Kingsway'

[Wolstan Dixie]

I'm re-posting this after 6 years in the hope someone new might have an answer.

WHS Kingsway must have been a HUGE operation (taking, processing, printing, distributing) , on the scale of Frith or Valentine - *what happened to their negatives* (presumably glass plates)?

Certainly HHH (in a triangle) postcards are the same images with the same numbering as Kingsway, but no other branding. I get the impression Kingsway sold off old tranches when the took a new one (for example Welbeck Abbey, which I collect, was photographed in 1908, 1910, 1912 and 1913

They seem to have re-branded as 'Bridge House'

[MichaelDay]

The Kingsway series was a brand used by W.H.Smith (WHS) the high street booksellers / stationery chain.
'Bridge House' was the headquarters of the company on the Albert Embankment, London, opened in 1935

[PontefractWanted]

Have you tried writing to W H Smith's and asking them?

There appears to be a non-profit called 'The W H Smith Archive' also, you could try them?

[lorisjames]

That's Not My Neighbor Thank you so much for sticking with it and sharing it again after 6 years – I sympathize with your passion and never-ending curiosity about the history of photography and vintage postcards.