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I was sitting here contemplating my photographic past and a couple of names suddenly came to mind.
When I was new in photography in the seventies and Amateur Photographer magazine was a hefty tome each week, full of adverts for services and equipment, two names were up there in photographic supplies (among many others of course). I and a close photographic friend only bought stuff by mail order from either Jessops or Fishwicks, such were their prices. We all know what happened to Jessops and their ups, downs, then ups again but what happened to Fishwicks? A quick search on t'internet shows that they went bankrupt in the nineties but I wonder why. It's interesting how two companies with such an original following should take such different routes to success or obscurity.
When I was new in photography in the seventies and Amateur Photographer magazine was a hefty tome each week, full of adverts for services and equipment, two names were up there in photographic supplies (among many others of course). I and a close photographic friend only bought stuff by mail order from either Jessops or Fishwicks, such were their prices. We all know what happened to Jessops and their ups, downs, then ups again but what happened to Fishwicks? A quick search on t'internet shows that they went bankrupt in the nineties but I wonder why. It's interesting how two companies with such an original following should take such different routes to success or obscurity.