Photograph of the Wyeth family at 79 Hyde Street, Winchester
Taken in 1872
The Wyeths were a prominent family in Victorian Winchester. Hugh Wyeth, seen here in the garden of his home in Hyde Street with his four children, was a successful brewer and maltster as well as the leading light in the city's amateur dramatics productions. This image of Victorian family life shows him playing chess with his daughter Annie outside their trellis and thatch summerhouse while Mary, Alice, an unidentified boy and the young Hugh look on. In the background part of the rear garden wall of stone, brick and flint capped with clay ridge tiles can be seen.
In the 1880s Mr. Wyeth moved into the large house he had had built on Worthy Road and his son occupied 79 Hyde Street for a few years.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album of his work.
