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Thanks Viv!! a very interesting thread

Am interested to see this discussion about Pumphrey(and Day) I am trying to find out more about camera and allied makers in Birmingham and found this advert from 1883

Even Philip Harris archives dont have records about their camera making but they definitely did make at least 2 different ones

Yes which makes it all the more annoying that there's very little officially written about the trade when it was so big

They only dallied with cameras for a short time in the late 19th Century ..maybe because other companies were branching out onto photography

As an update to my original post, i know of the following companies but beyond their names and some cameras they made, details are few and far between Lancaster Underwood Philip Harris E Marlow Marlow Brothers Pumphrey and day Rendalls Coronet/Conway/Standard/Warwick Edwin Elliot/BOLCO Envoy...

I've worked out that the building they originally occupied in Great Hampton street is just down from the Pelican Works building and still there! A few other camera companies were in the area too, like Marlow and Mander I have quite a list of companies that made cameras in the city but it's...

Details are still scarce about coronet despite their size etc... partly due i suspect to world war 2 destroying many of their records - I've never seen a photo of the building as it was either - it's strange that none of their advertising material featured their premises as many companies used to do

Hi Viv, I'm of the opinion that standard were in fact just a part od coronet - there are far too many similarities etc for them to exist separately but without company records it's hard to prove

L Thank you for the reply, Birmingham Photographic Society seems to have had many ups and downs in the 19th and early 20th century - from being important to disappearing for 30 years- I need to have a look at them properly as I've already found a number of camera makers were also members of...

My first thread so apologies if I mess up along the way! I am interested in finding out more about companies in Birmingham who made cameras... At the end of the 19th century we had the largest camera company in the world here, but the history of camera making in the city has been largely...