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CASTLE CAMERAS

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Short Company description

Castle Cameras was started in 1974 by Brian and Jenny Callow. Racheal Tattum became a partner in May 1999. Jenny dropped out in 2002.

The business was previously 'Callow Chemist', a pharmacy established in 1938 by Mr Ken Callow, Brian's father. A photographic department was added in 1958 but then reduced to one small counter when a sub-post office was introduced ten years later. The post office continued alongside the camera shop until March 2004.

Detailed description:

In 1978, following a boom in the sale of cameras and a rapid increase in turnover, a Mail Order department was established and a photographic business purchased in Sturminster Newton, Dorset.

In 1984 a competitor's business in the main Winton shopping area, about a mile from the original shop, was purchased. This is now the main showroom. For many years, the original site specialised in film, materials and processing as well as being used for mail order, repairs and administration. Following the closure of the Post Office, a digital processing machine was installed. This was moved to the main showroom in May 2009, leaving the original site empty while it is developed.

A branch was opened in the centre of Salisbury on August 1, 1987 and a temporary site, awaiting re-development, was opened at the Triangle, in the centre of Bournemouth, from July 1989 until December 1990. The Sturminster Newton shop was sold to the manager when the lease expired in the Autumn of 1990.

After a period of consolidation, a freehold shop and flat was purchased in Pokesdown in July 1993 and opened four days later. Brian moved in to run it and oversee the improvements to the building. It traded successfully until 2005 when it was sold for development.

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