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The National Maritime Museum also hold some of his photographs in their collection.\r\nAfter this he moved his studio to the south coast working around the areas of Margate, Broadstairs and Brighton where this photograph, part of a series, is thought to have been taken. \r\nLater in his career he moved to South Devon and continued his business, Remington's Photo Service (later a limited company) in Torquay and Paignton until the late 1950s.\r\n\r\nThis photographic postcard is one of a series of images taken by Remington and donated to the museum by his daughter. \r\nMost of Remington's beach photographs used props, often the same a bucket and spade. Photographs and postcards taken by studios such as Remington's were a popular souvenir of a family trip to the seaside. 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Remington, father of the donor, was a studio / portrait photographer initially based on the South East coast of England. He set up a photographic business, Remington's photo service, around the 1920s.\r\n\r\nHe trained as a mechanical engineer. After WWI he took up photography, initially working with glass plate cameras. Later he moved on to use a Leica 'reporter' 35mm. His first business was thought to have been in Greenwich area and he worked as a photographer at the Royal Naval college at Greenwich. The National Maritime museum also hold some of his photographs in their collection.\r\n\r\nAfter this he began to take seaside photographs in Margate, Broadstairs and Brighton areas where these photographs are all thought to have been taken. Later in his career he moved to South Devon and continued his business, Remington's photo service (later a limited company) in Torquay and Paignton until the late 1950s.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photographic postcard, black and white, of a girl sitting on the sand next to a black dog, taken on the south coast of England, by Remington's Photo Service (A.H. 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