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Britain’s American Air Museum seeks help identifying US personnel who served in UK

02 Oct

The American Air Museum, which is part of Britain’s Imperial War Museum, has launched a new wiki-style website designed to allow members of the public to help identify the service men and women depicted in the site’s online galleries. Based on 15,000 prints from The Roger Freeman Collection documenting the lives of the US Army Air Forces personnel who served in England during the Second World War, the site records the thoughts and memories of the local population who worked and lived alongside them. Learn more

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Britain’s biggest high-street camera store enters administration

10 Jan

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Britain’s biggest high-street camera retailer, Jessops, has gone into administration, putting 192 stores and 2,000 jobs at risk. The company’s website is not accepting orders and administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers has said vouchers and returns would not be honoured at present. The company, that has been slow to respond to competition from internet retailers, was rescued in 2009 by HSBC, which bought into the company in return for writing off some of its debts. However, increasingly stringent credit terms imposed by suppliers (a common move when there is doubt surrounding the future of a company), and predictions of further falls in camera sales led to the administrators being called.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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