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Subject: [OM] Re: Camera shops
From: "Roger Key" <rogerdkey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:44:48 +0200

Thanks for the camera shop info John. We will be visiting my mother on the 
Wirral (Heswall, overlooking the Dee estuary and Wales) at the beginning of 
September, so I could drop by Colwyn Bay on one of our trips into North 
Wales. Have you got an exact address for Cambrian Photography?

Roger Key

>From: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: Camera shops
>Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:41:10 +0100
>
>On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:00:16 -0700, "R. Jackson"
><jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >I went to my favorite local camera shop yesterday and it's a bank
> >now. That place has been there since the 50's. I bought my 90/2 and
> >my 180/2.8 there. I've been going to a different store over the past
> >year or so because it's more convenient for me and I had no idea this
> >place was going under. The mom and pop camera store just can't
> >survive anymore, I guess.
>
>Much the same here in UK I'm afraid. Most of the surviving
>"independents" have been assimilated by Jessops (a nationwide chain)
>and even some of those that are still independent (my son works for
>one in Wrexham, North Wales) rely heavily on Jessops for supplies.
>
>However for those in UK able to get there, I can thoroughly recommend
>Cambrian Photography in Colwyn Bay. Tremendous range of new and used
>gear and helpful and very knowledgeable staff, selling a lot to the
>professional market. I hope they survive.
>
>
>John Gruffydd (Mold, Wales, UK)
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>



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