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Griffiths Camera Co Ltd Highgate Square Moseley Street

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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This business probably started up c1891 in photo-lithography and printing. Their first location might have been in Union Passage.

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(Above information source: earlyphotography.co.uk)


Some nice examples of equipment produced by Griffiths are in the advertisement below. I like the name of the Guinea Detective Camera.
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He seems to have started out as a paper box manufacturer, and then suddenly changed :

In 1884 Highgate Square is not listed as having businesses

1888-90 Walter Griffiths Highgate Square, paper box maker

1892 Walter Griffiths & Co Ltd Hoghgate Square, photographic apparatus manufacturer
 
Don't know much about early cameras, but I suppose the change from box manufacturer to camera manufacturer wouldn't take too much of a leap of the imagination. After all cameras were boxes with plates and lenses. I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but I can see a general connection.
 
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