A young girl watches the splash of a stone after it was thrown along the seashore.

Besides being an important British architect and founder of the Kelmscott Fellowship, A.H. Verstage was an amateur photographer active from the early 1900’s to at least 1921 according to references in the British photographic press. Verstage was the president of the London County Council Camera Club from 1908-10 and active as a member of the Wimbledon and District Camera Club from 1911-13 and perhaps later. ( 1913 dated correspondence from former club held by this archive)

Arthur Halcrow Verstage: 1875-1969

Arthur Halcrow Verstage (1875-1969) was an Architect who conducted much of his career in the public sector working for London County Council and then as District Surveyor for Lewisham. He oversaw the design of the LCC’s Central School of Arts and Crafts in Southampton Row (1905-8). He was an enthusiast of Arts and Crafts and designed a house in that style for himself in Forest Hill in 1934. He was a devotee of William Morris and with May Morris was active in founding the Kelmscott Fellowship (later the William Morris Society). – Historic England –A.H. Verstage photographic collection