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  • 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. 

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

  • 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.

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