{"id":1006,"date":"1985-04-16T09:00:43","date_gmt":"1985-04-16T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2013-01-18T02:18:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:18:57","slug":"career-with-jessops-photo-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/career-with-jessops-photo-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Career with Jessops Photo Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked with photo retailer Jessops from April 1985 until May 1991<\/p>\n<p>I was interviewed for the job by Ian Kennedy and joined the team that opened the 18th branch in Sheffield at Market Place, Castle Square and later moved down to Commercial Street.<\/p>\n<p>The team comprised<\/p>\n<p>Phil Jordan &#8211; Manager<br \/>\nNigel Darnborough &#8211; Assistant ManagerPeter Bargh &#8211; Senior Sales<br \/>\nGlynn May- Senior Sales<br \/>\nVaughan Wingrove &#8211; Junior Sales<\/p>\n<p>Our first week was spent training in Hinkley Road and Birmingham branches. We picked all the stock at Scudamore Road and then organised it at the branch.<\/p>\n<p>We were joined by a succession of Saturday staff and over the years other members came and went I cannot remember which order and all but ones that stick in my mind included Paul Reynolds, Simon May, Simon Thackery, Mark Howe, Suzi Cooper, Jane , Big Al, Daren Loxley, Robert Fitzgibbons, Dr Robert Webb, Susan Turner.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1006 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/career-with-jessops-photo-centre\/pete-jessops\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pete-jessops-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1008\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1008'>\n\t\t\t\tSuzi, Big Al, Daren, Jane, Pete and Vaughan\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/career-with-jessops-photo-centre\/jessops2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/jessops2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Glynn, Vaughan, Simon, Sue and Pete\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1007\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1007'>\n\t\t\t\tGlynn, Vaughan, Simon, Sue and Pete\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Jessops went into liquidation on 9th January 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked with photo retailer Jessops from April 1985 until May 1991 I was interviewed for the job by Ian Kennedy and joined the team that opened the 18th branch in Sheffield at Market Place, Castle Square and later moved down to Commercial Street. The team comprised Phil Jordan &#8211; Manager Nigel Darnborough &#8211; Assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[829,830,831,819,862,828,821,826,818,861,5,817,738,822,824,825,832,827,820],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-big-al","tag-daren-loxley","tag-dr-robert-webb","tag-glynn-may","tag-ian-kennedy","tag-jane","tag-jessops","tag-mark-howe","tag-nigel-darnborough","tag-paul-reynold","tag-peter-bargh","tag-phil-jordan","tag-robert-fitzgibbons","tag-scudamore-road","tag-simon-may","tag-simon-thackery","tag-susan-turner","tag-suzi-cooper","tag-vaughan-wingrove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}