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P B Abery, the son of a grocer and one of 13 children, originated from Folkestone, in Kent. He came to live in Builth Wells in 1898. When he was only 21 he bought a small photography business, and in 1911 he moved to larger premises, the West End Studio, where he remained until his death in 1948.

During the summer, P B Abery would make his living by taking photographs of the people who came to visit the Wells. The photographs would be displayed outside the shop the next morning, where crowds of people would gather to look for pictures of themselves.

P B Abery also loved the outdoors, and enjoyed nothing better than roaming the countryside taking photographs of views and rural life around Breconshire, Radnorshire and the Border Counties. When the Birmingham Water Works began construction work on the Elan Valley dams, he was appointed the official photographer for the project. In December 1947, shortly before his death, an exhibition of P B Abery's photographs of the dams was held at the Birmingham Civic Centre.

P B Abery was also a regular contributor to the national daily newspapers, and the sporting and agricultural weeklies.