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Any cards published  by W. H. Cox with the 90 Castle Street address must date from about 1905 to 1910.

The Postcards of

William Harold Cox of Luton & St Albans

William Harold Cox was born in 1874, the son of William Cox (a hairdresser) and Sarah Ann Burrows, the family living at 55/56 Archer Street, Kensington, in 1881. In 1901 he was lodging at 11 Victoria Street, Luton, and described as a photographer & picture frame maker. By about 1905 he was publishing post cards with the words "W H Cox, 90 Castle Street, Luton" and he is listed as a photographer at this address in the 1910 Kelly's Directory for Bedfordshire.

However in 1908 he married Florence Lane, daughter of Samuel Lane, straw Hat Manufacturer of Luton, and is listed in Kelly's Directory for Hertfordshire as a photographer at Grenfell, (119) London Road,  St Albans, in 1908. then again in 1912. He was also living at this address at the time of the 1911 census, with his wife and 1 month old son, Harold Lane Cox, when he was described as a photographer and frame maker.

I have found no later Hertfordshire references and in the 1914 Bedfordshire directory he is described as a photographer of 29 Wellington Street, Luton, and living at Beechcroft, Beech Hill, Dunstable Road, Luton.

It should be noted that the BLARS index, also accessible through A2A, holds a number of photographs he has taken, the earliest from 1905, at least one from the Castle Street address circa 1910, several from the Wellington Street Address, and some from circa 1940 from the Gainsborough Studios, Luton. (This index does not include any post cards by him they may well hold.)

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I have no examples of his post cards from St Albans or after his return to Luton.