My photography history started back in middle school in the late 1960s, my mother would walk me to school as it was only a couple of miles from home, as I got older around 9 years old I would walk to school on my own or with my brother and I would go the the sweet shop across the road from school, I liked to get among other things a Mars chocolate bar, one day they started a competition where you would collect letters printed on the wrappers.
The Idea was to collect the letters printed on the wrappers and stick them on to a card to complete a crossword I think, as I would buy sweets with my pocket money on the way to school anyway I started to collect the wrappers, and I would often find discarded wrappers so I quickly collected up all the letters I needed.
My brother also collected the letters so when we completed our crosswords we sent of to get a camera, I don’t think I had ever held or used a camera before in all my 9 years, It was a cheap plastic point and shoot camera probably one step up from a disposable or single use camera and I have a feeling it was a 126 cartridge camera, I remember taking the camera to school and taking photos of my friends and when we went to play sport in the local park, I have a vague memory of taking the prints to school so they must have been developed but I could be wrong.
I have no idea what happened to the prints or negatives if any, the pictures taken back on those few days are now are lost forever.
I wouldn’t get another camera for a few years.