Cleethorpes gardens and pier photochrom pre-1903.

A large, original photochrom image by an unknown photographer/published. The image was sourced from Bruno Tartarin of Paris.

Photochrom prints are ink-based images produced through the direct photographic transfer of an original negative onto litho and chromographic printing plates. The photographer would make detailed notes of the colours within the scene and use the notes to hand paint the negative before transferring the image through coloured gels onto the printing plates.

Photocrom pictures were very popular between the late 1890s and early 1900s. The original pavilion, on the right, was destroyed by fire in 1903. The current pavilion, halfway along the pier, was built in 1905. This dates the image to pre-1903.