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¶ In April 1868 Alfred Pickering was on his way to Windsor and Richmond to execute orders for tombstone photographs there, advertising that during his few days' stay he would 'be glad to take views of residences or tombs of the families in the neighbourhood'. Orders could be left with Mr Dwyer of George Street, Windsor. After his father's Sydney studio was sold up in late 1871, Alfred became a full-time travelling photographer in rural New South Wales, exhibiting a collection of his views with the Agricultural Society of NSW in 1873. From 27 February to the end of March 1874 he was taking portraits in a gallery at the rear of Spratt's saddlery in Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, and he returned for further work in May-June. As well as taking likenesses and offering carte-de-visite portraits at 1s each of Archbishop Vaughan (the recently appointed Roman Catholic coadjutor to Archbishop Polding in Sydney), Pickering was inevitably offering to photograph tombstones in any cemetery within a 10 mile radius of town. Two years later he took the earliest-known extant panorama of Queanbeyan. ¶ The Pickering of McLean & Pickering, a 'Flying Studio' which travelled around rural New South Wales in the 1880s, must have been Alfred. He also worked in Victoria for a time, a carte-de-visite being noted by Davies and Stanbury from Alfred Pickering & Son's School of Photography at 263 Camberwell Road, Melbourne. He was possibly taking photographs at Perth and Fremantle (WA) about 1900, perhaps on his way back to England, where he is thought to have spent his last years. He made a visit in 1911 but returned to Australia and was resident with his photographer son John David Pickering in Balmain in 1913. His wife, Margaret, died at Blyth, Northumberland in December 1905, but it is not known where or when Alfred Pickering died. Nor is there any record of his tombstone. |