History seldom takes note of serendipity! after a visit to the US by a good friend Mark who jumped in a photo booth in a venue in San Francisco, from the immortal words Victor Kiam “he loved it so much he bought one” well two actually. Mark arrived back in the UK with 2 old photo booths a 1960’s and one 1970’s analogue black and white photo booths both only partially working and no idea what to do next.

This is where I enter the scene I had grown up and trained with my father as a clock and watch restorer and you may not know but analogue photo booths are just a big pile of cogs and gears (just like a clock) with some electrical lighting and power supplies, Mark decided to take a job in Switzerland and provided me with 2 broken photo booths and I only had a small amount of money.

Retro-me was born in 2009 a family run business with the help of my Son Anthony and my long-term friend Nick and his son Rhys.

We fully intended to install our booths in venues, except UK entertainment scene wasn’t quite ready for a photo booths in venues and so we ended up becoming a photo booth events company. But the vision was always to install within venues, in 2012 we installed out first venue booth in North Bar Leeds (and we are still there today) and until 2022 carried on enjoying being events hire company.