Tim Mosher's articles about photographs in the Lemp Studio Collection are now available in the "Vintage Views" section of this website.
In May 1950, sixty members of the Tavistock Teen Towners gathered to honour Carl and Ann Seltzer, their mentors, on the occasion of their recent marriage. It was a wonderful evening. Unfortunately, Mrs. Seltzer, the star of the show, was unable to attend...she had come down with measles two hours earlier.
John K. Lemp was a skilled woodworker from Tavistock who, during his lifetime, built five large grandfather clocks for members of his family. As his family moved, so did his clocks, so that residents of Tavistock have been deprived of seeing the handiwork of one of its most notable residents…until now!