Question: What were the main subjects of photographs taken by William Clarridge in a medium-sized historic market town close to the western boundary of Hertfordshire, England?

Context articles: William Clarridge
St Albans
Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson
Newbury, Berkshire
Berkhamsted
Bishop's Stortford
Cockermouth Cricket Club
Baldock
Faringdon
Cottingley Fairies

William Clarridge trained as a painter before taking up documentary photography in the early 1850s.
 Two albums of his photographs survive documenting the town of Berkhamsted.
 These form one of the earliest documentary records of English village life.
 Amongst his pictures are a number of photographs of young girls which were sold at Sotheby's in 1984 described as "in the style of Lewis Carroll".
 There is evidence that he may have visited Christ Church, Oxford in the mid-1850s where Lewis Carroll was professor of mathematics.
St Albans , is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans.
 It lies east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, about 19 mi north-northwest of central London, 8 mi southwest of Welwyn Garden City and 11 mi south-southeast of Luton.
 St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north, and it became the Roman city of Verulamium.
 It is a historic market town and is now a dormitory town within the London commuter belt and the Greater London Built-up Area.
GONZO: Photographs By Hunter S. Thompson is a limited-edition 224 page visual biography of photographs taken by, or of, Hunter S. Thompson, published in late 2006 by AMMO Books.
 Thompson's snapshots were a combination of the subjects he was covering, stylized self-portraits, and artistic still life photos.
 The "London Observer" called the photos "astonishingly good" and that "Thompson's pictures remind us, brilliantly in every sense, of very real people, real colours".
 With an introduction by Johnny Depp (a friend of Thompson, and portrayer of his author surrogate, Raoul Duke, in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"), the book stands as the only authorized biography of Hunter S. Thompson ever published.
 Together with AMMO publisher Steve Crist, Thompson was deeply involved in the book's creation in the final months of his life, and it was the author's final work in progress when he committed suicide in February 2005.
Newbury is a historic market town and the principal town in the west of Berkshire, England and has its own civil parish (led by a town council) as well as the administrative headquarters of West Berkshire.
 It spans both sides of the River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal, and has a town centre spread around its large market square.The historic town centre retains a rare medieval Cloth Hall and an adjoining half timbered granary, an unusually large 15th century parish church, along with a wealth of attractive 17th and 18th century listed buildings.
 Newbury is famous for its racecourse, and as the headquarters of Vodafone UK and software company Micro Focus International.
Berkhamsted is a medium-sized historic market town close to the western boundary of Hertfordshire, England.
 The affluent commuter town is located in the small Bulbourne valley in the Chiltern Hills, 26 miles northwest of London.
 Berkhamsted is a civil parish, with a town council within the larger borough of Dacorum.
Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.
 It is just west of the M11 motorway on the county boundary with Essex and is the closest sizeable town to London Stansted Airport.
 Bishop's Stortford is 27 mi north-east of Charing Cross in central London and 35 mi from Liverpool Street station, the London terminus of the line to Cambridge that runs through the town.
 Bishop's Stortford had a population of 38,202, decreasing to 37,838 at the 2011 Census.
Cockermouth Cricket Club was founded in the year 1823, in the historic market town of Cockermouth.
 This historic year finds its place located on the crest of the club alongside: The Daffodils (of William Wordsworth fame), Cockermouth Castle and the club colours of green and gold.
 The early years saw the club renting it's Sandair home from the wealthy Senhouse family.
 It is commonly misconceived that the club played on the grounds in front of the large Senhouse mansion at one time but Cockermouth Cricket Club have, in its long history, only ever had one ground; Sandair.
 This was eventually purchased from the Senhouse family and became property of the club.
 Many photographs which adorn the walls of the current Sandair pavilion are testament to the growing interest in the area during the Victorian era.
 In particular, a photograph of Cumberland versus Westmorland exists from the late 1800s fixture on the Sandair ground.
Baldock is a historic market town in the local government district of North Hertfordshire in the ceremonial county of Hertfordshire, England where the River Ivel rises.
 It lies 33 mi north of London, 15 mi southeast of Bedford, and 14 mi north northwest of the county town of Hertford.
 Nearby towns include Royston to the northeast, Letchworth and Hitchin to the southwest and Stevenage to the south.
Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about 18 mi southwest of Oxford, 10 mi northwest of Wantage, 34 mi northwest of Reading and 12 mi east-northeast of Swindon.
 It is a large parish, its lowest parts extending to the River Thames in the north and its highest ground reaching the Ridgeway in the south.
 It was the westernmost town in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire for the purposes of administration.
The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–88) and Frances Griffiths (1907–86), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.
 In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9.
 The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of "The Strand Magazine".
 Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena.
 Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, but others believed they had been faked.