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Philip Phillips (photographer)

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in England under the direction of the Reverend Arthur Rigg. After he left school he entered the office of a mining engineer. He left the mining profession to become a merchant seaman and left the service after an attack of
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in China. He then took up photography enthusiastically and served in the capacity of photographer on the Forth Bridge works. The photographs he took of the bridge were reproduced in an album entitled
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Phillips died at the age of 34 after a short illness of four days, from an attack of
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Philip Phillips was born in either 1857 or 1858, and was educated at
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The Forth Bridge: reprinted from "Engineering", 28 February 1890
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hills showing the three cantilevers at near their full height
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and was part of the consortium to build the Forth Bridge.
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The Inchgarvie cantilever as seen from the landing stage
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North Queensferry

Forth Bridge
Chester College
rheumatic fever
influenza
pneumonia
Handsworth Old Church
Birmingham
Joseph Phillips
Crystal Palace
Birmingham New Street railway station



The Forth Bridge illustrations 1886-1887
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Photographers from Cheshire
19th-century English photographers
1850s births
1890s deaths

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