Ancient of days, Lacock Abbey began as a convent
eight hundred years ago, still retaining its cloister and
medieval rooms. But some would say that the greatest
divine intervention in the Abbey���s history occurred during
the residency of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877):
Talbot discovered the process for the photographic
negative in the 1830s on a visit to the Abbey which had
become his family country seat (see the accompanying
article by Scully and Osterman). Much of modern visual
technology, in tandem with other early inventions, would
eventually flow from this event.
HYLAND
