blue plaque · Leeds

Charles Barker Howdill

Charles Barker Howdill. This prominent Leeds architect of Primitive Methodist chapels, travel photographer who ventured to the Balkans, and renowned slide show lecturer lived here. In 1901, he exhibited some of the first colour images seen at the Royal Photographic Society. 1863-1941

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