photography founded oxford england june 1860 1860 06 headquarters dorney reach maidenhead website http www.hillsandsaunders.co.uk hills & saunders was one of the leading victorian photographic firms started as a partnership between robert hills & john henry saunders . 1 they were social photographers with studios at different times in london society harrow & eton & rugby locations of leading schools oxford & cambridge leading universities aldershot & sandhurst army . they were successful photographers to the royal family e.g. princess beatrice of the united kingdom with some items still in the hills & saunders photos in the royal collection . 2 but ultimately unsuccessful at a business level with a number of branches failing and only their two main school branches harrow & eton continuing well into the 20th century . ultimately the harrow photos remain saved by the school and now in private hands and the images can be seen at iconic photographs and the name continues in the eton branch . once one of the bigger more prestigious victorian photographic studios little now remains . studios edit london studios 3 1868 1869 48 porchester terrace bayswater kensington 1868 1886 36 porchester terrace bayswater kensington 1893 1895 47 sloane street chelsea negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists harrow studio 1861 first recorded date in records 1865 first advertisement closed in the 1980s negatives records still exist and can be found at iconic photographs eton studio 1864 1894 to date . still going hills & saunders is owned currently by richard shymansky abipp ampa and is now based in dorney reach maidenhead but is still the eton studio . negatives some of the records believed destroyed rugby studio dates unknown listed on cdv as a studio negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists oxford studio 1856 1935 taken over by gillman & soame in oxford 1931 negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists under original name . cambridge studio dates unknown but bankrupt by 1892 negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists aldershot studio 1865 1879 negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists sandhurst studio dates unknown negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists yorktown studio dates unknown negatives records believed destroyed studio no longer exists evidence of the existence of the aldershot & yorktown and other studios can be found here http whowerethey.wordpress.com category photographer hills saunders references edit hannavy john . encyclopedia of nineteenth century photography volume 1 . crc press . retrieved 13 march 2013 . http www.royalcollection.org.uk egallery maker.asp maker 13224 hills & saunders photos in the royal collection pritchard m a directory of london photographs 1841 1908 photoresearch 1996 . see also http www.photolondon.org.uk pages details.asp pid 3820 external links edit hillsandsaunders.co.uk website for the remaining branch of the company . harrowphotos.com website for the one remaining archive of photos from the company from their harrow branch photolondon.org website showing some of the firm s history st sepulchres.org.uk grave of robert hills with biographical information on him and his son in law john henry saunders and information about the origins and early history of the firm retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hills % 26 saunders & oldid 734167803 categories photography companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tina edit links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 15 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view