Claud Hider lived in West Bay in the early 20th century and was a keen photographer.

He produced his postcards from the pictures he had taken from villages around Bridport and Lyme Regis, before selling them.

Hider seems to have recorded all the villages around Bridport and Lyme Regis. His postcards are often animated and of unusual locations rather than the more common mass-produced postcards.

These pictures were taken in the west Dorset village of Litton Cheney from 1922 onwards. And you can also see a more recent photo of the White Horse Inn in Litton Cheney.

Hider was born in Gravesend in Kent to Robert and Clara Hider in 1888. His father appears as a professional photographer in directories of the time, and no doubt Claud learnt his trade from him.

Robert Hider had photographic studios at 22 Banks Town in Sheerness and also 183 Parrock's Street in Gravesend. His Cartes de Visite, which were the size of visiting cards showing Victorian sitters in his studios from these times come regularly on to the market.

These were very popular and by the 1860s every small town had its professional photographers and it has been estimated that up to 400 million cartes de visite were produced each year.

The 1901 Census shows that the family were living in Chatham in Kent, which would have been near the two studios.

By 1911, the next Census shows Claud, aged 23 boarding with a photographer in Kettering in Northamptonshire and working as a darkroom assistant.

Three years later he marries Edith Wilkin in Kettering. Later they have moved back to Kent and their first child is born to them in Maidstone in 1916.

They then moved on to Bridport in Dorset, where two further children are born in 1922 and 1925.