William Buston, Norwich Photographer

 These photos by William Buston ARPS are taken from The Norfolk Annual, October 1936 (first two) and Oct 1938.  They were part of an article in the latter entitled “Colegate. An Ancient Norwich Way”.  Not much is known about William Buston – a photographer in Norwich in the late 1930’s. George Plunkett, a much-better known Norwich photographer of the 20th c. mentions one of Buston's photos in reference to "Ber Street" - "In the Norfolk Annual published in October 1937, there appeared a photograph by William Buston of this building, (Bond’s) taken from the entrance to Golden Ball St, and captioned "Corner Doomed to Destruction" - an accurate prophecy, although not for the reason the photographer had envisaged."
 I have found out that an album of early twentieth century photographs including many by Buston is part of the Bridewell Museum's holdings.  I understand that the photos are also now digitised into the Picture Norfolk collection at the Heritage Centre in the Forum.
I have been unsuccessful in finding out if there are other editions of The Norfolk Annual, but if anyone spots any, I would be happy to purchase them. There are quite a few more photos  in the two mags (by other photographers) and I will try to post some on the Club page over the next weeks.