See you in two months ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the receipt for a camera I bought in 1975. When I was fourteen years old I was winked at by a beautiful Halina Paulette Electric, sitting in the window of Alan Halkyard's camera centre in Eccles. I fell in love, and then into debt. This baby would be my first step up to 35mm photography but she didn't come cheap. Paulette's price-tag was an outrageous twelve quid and there was no way I had that kind of money at such a tender age. So I part-exchanged my Kodak Instamatic and began to pay for the camera in instalments. A pound here, fifty pence there, it took me two months to get my sweaty teenage hands on that little beauty. I wonder what today's kids would make of that ..