The former Jessops shop, Wolverhampton Mander Centre

Image: © Richard Law Taken: 22 Jan 2013

On the lower (ground floor) level of the Mander Centre, this was until recently the Wolverhampton presence of the Leicester-based Jessops photographic retail business. They'd moved here several years ago from a larger shop in the outdoor pedestrian precinct, at a time roughly coinciding with the upturn in digital photography and the associated downturn in developing & printing, which used to operate at the rear of the larger shop. This smaller store carried on business until late 2012 or very early 2013, at which point the poster on the window suggests that the operation was moving back outside the Mander Centre again. That may not actually have happened, as the whole firm went into administration in January 2013, closing all its 187 stores nationwide, with the loss of over 1350 jobs.

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