Luckily still plenty of good independents around.
I’m in Edinburgh today and walked past what looked like an absolutely fabulous camera shop earlier. Don’t often see them though.
Jessops were an online store in Leicester in the 1970s good place to buy Kodachrome 35mm film
They advertized in AP and you wrote a letter and included a cheque and received the goods a week or so later. Sorry about the term online - I should have said mail order. <g>Online in the 1970s?