Old Photographs - Cambridgeshire Photographers - Personal Recollections

From this page you can listen to our webmaster in conversation with Tom Johnson in January 2015. Tom, now in his eighties, has been involved in photography locally since he was a teenager at Impington Village College. For many years Tom managed Anglia Photo Works in Devonshire Road Cambridge, part of the Campkins group of businesses. We are really grateful to Tom for sharing his unique insights with us.

Tom Johnson

In Part One Tom talks about his own career and the development of Campkins business by entrepreneur Thomas Howell - Listen to Part One / download Part One (20 mins mp3) In Part Two Tom talks about the delights and difficulties of running a developing and printing works - Listen to Part Two / Download Part Two (22 mins mp3) In Part Three Tom gives us some insight into a few of the Cambridgeshire photographers he has known - Listen to Part Three / Download Part Three (12 mins mp3) In Part Four Tom talks about postcard production at the earlier stages of his own career when Campkins took over the Peterborough based Automatic Photo Printing Co, incorporated in 1947, who produced postcards using Graber machines - Listen to Part Four / Download Part Four (12 mins mp3)

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