Bourne & Shepard Kolkata studio closes

[Eric Butler]

I have just found out that the Bourne and Shepard Photo studio in Kolkata has closed. For more information:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/8668353651/after-176-years-bourne-shep...

[Hugh Ashley Rayner]

As far as can be ascertained, the entire stock of B&S negatives and ciné films, together with any residual prints in stock, were all destroyed in the catastrophic attic storeroom fire at the studio in 1991. 

[Julienne Pascoe]

Does anyone have any information as to the status of the original Bourne & Shepherd inventory?

[Lorayne Branch]

Samuel Bourne had shares in my great grandfathers photographic process, my great grandfather was the Australian inventor Henry Sutton who invented a new halftone process. The company was called Sutton's Photographic Process Syndicate Ltd, the process was called Electro-Phototypy and the company was started in England in 1891.