Yes, we know it's a bit gimmicky, but the Polaroid Photo Album at Urban Outfitters is a useful little gimmick too.
Of course, it's a photo album shaped like a vintage Polaroid camera. Open it up and you'll find 18 double-sided pages, each fitting photos sized at 10 x 15 inches. Not sure if that's the 'Polaroid', size I suspect not, but that would perhaps make the product a little too niche.
Anyway, it's available online if you want somewhere to keep your snaps, available for just £14.
Laura Ashley are world famous for a certain kind of romantic style. This Pimlico wallpaper goes back to the company's extensive archive to reproduce some of their most familiar type of imagery.
The wallpaper is covered with photographs taken from their most influential moment in women's fashions: there's Edwardian-style dresses and puff sleeves, smock dresses and maxi skirts. If you're a fan of the Laura Ashley look, you're sure to find plenty to inspire you or maybe to evoke some memories in this wallpaper.
Though the paper is shown here in black and white, it can also be bought in a pink tinted version – perfect for those who like to look at the past through the rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia. Don't want it over an entire wall? The design is also available on photo albums and hat boxes.
The wallpaper costs £22.40 a roll.
Order it online
We’re big fans of Lomo photography, so we’re always pleased to see new models – like the Lomography La Sardina film camera range.
It’s a very fishy-themed camera, based on the design of a sardine tin, as you might have guessed from the one pictured above and the three cameras featured over the page,. They go by the names of El Capitán, Fischer´s Fritze, Sea Pride and Marathon, each with their one vintage-style imagery and colour.
These days it's easy to amass hundreds of photographs digitally and not have a single one exist in print. If you're a compulsive digital snapper who rarely prints, this Retro Camera Photo Album might just persuade you to commit your work to paper.
The album measures 10 x 16cm and can hold 36 photographs in clear plastic sleeves with black backing inside. It has a magnetic clasp and carry strap and the old-school camera styling makes it perfect for housing all those retro-effect shots you've taken on your iphone.
It costs £12 and is available from the V&A Museum shop, either in person or online here.
If you want a glimpse into London's Covent Garden looked like before the tourists descended, take a look at Nigel Dicker's photographs of Old Covent Garden.
The images show the area back when it was a fruit and vegetable market and were all taken in 1972 and 1973 – just before the market located to its new location in 1974. The photographs are now available to buy as prints and show a fascinating range of customers and city scenes: from sellers to customers to the kind of old fashioned gent shown in the image above.
Each print is sold as part of a limited edition of 100 and cost £45 each.
See the range online at Culturelabel
If taking photographs with a lomography camera isn’t challenging enough for you, then you might be interested in this Build-It-Yourself Recesky Twin Lens Reflect Camera.
Once put together the camera will take vintage-style soft focus photographs with the distorted colours you’d expect from lomography photographs. But first you have to built it, which looks like it could be quite a challenge judging by the number of little pieces of plastic it consists of.
The kit costs £35 from Pedlars.
