silhouette53
master brummie
I became a grandfather back in March of last year and, naturally enough, have been taking rather more photographs on my little digital compact than I normally would since then !!
I was quite 'into' photography years ago and had quite a bit of 35mm gear languishing at the back of the wardrobe so I traded it all in for a new DSLR and lenses etc etc
I have become aware of how many camera shops have disappeared from Brum !! There is currently only ONE !! - Jessops - and that has only reopened because that 'dragons den' chap has bought the name and reopened a few of the stores ( they had gone into liquidation I think )
There used to be quite a few camera shops in town years ago - Sherwoods Photographic in the Gt Western Arcade, Camera House in Canon St, Dixons in Union Street, Techno cameras on Smallbrook ringway, Pelling & Cross down by the old ATV studios and quite a few more who's names and locations escape me now.
I think the demise of film and the low prices available via online shopping has sounded the death knell for them, as it has done with so many other retailers. How sad. Ah, I just remembered another - Peter Gaffney who's shop was up toward the jewellery quarter
I was quite 'into' photography years ago and had quite a bit of 35mm gear languishing at the back of the wardrobe so I traded it all in for a new DSLR and lenses etc etc
I have become aware of how many camera shops have disappeared from Brum !! There is currently only ONE !! - Jessops - and that has only reopened because that 'dragons den' chap has bought the name and reopened a few of the stores ( they had gone into liquidation I think )
There used to be quite a few camera shops in town years ago - Sherwoods Photographic in the Gt Western Arcade, Camera House in Canon St, Dixons in Union Street, Techno cameras on Smallbrook ringway, Pelling & Cross down by the old ATV studios and quite a few more who's names and locations escape me now.
I think the demise of film and the low prices available via online shopping has sounded the death knell for them, as it has done with so many other retailers. How sad. Ah, I just remembered another - Peter Gaffney who's shop was up toward the jewellery quarter