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I remember in 1938 when I was about seventeen organising a Photograph Club for the girls I worked with. This enabled them to have their photographs taken without laying the full amount out all at once. It cost £1, which was a large sum in those days. Instead they paid one shilling (5 pence) per week for twenty weeks. I would put numbers from 1 to 20 into a hat or box and they would each take a number. Whatever number they drew out they would go in that week to have their photograph taken. I would get my photograph free or I could have £1 commission.
The photographer I favoured was the Oxford Studio on Oxford Road near All Saints. They has clothes and props you could borrow to make you look posh. My friends and I liked the white fur coat because we thought it made us look glamorous and well off. Consequently we all had a photograph taken in a white fur coat.
Other photographers round and about were:-
Foulds and Cleaves, Ashton New Road
Jones's, Ashton Old Road
Bramwells, Cross Street, Gorton
Jerome's, Manchester