Please learn more about the history of the oldest family run photography company in the World.

	Thomas Keig	1829 – 1896	Thomas Keig, a Cabinet Maker by trade gave it up to pursue his hobby of Photography and founded Keigs in 1860. A very keen astronomer and founded the Manx Astronomical Society. He was first mayor of Douglas and an accomplished engineer.
	T S Keig	1866-1931	Thomas Stanley Keig worked for his father in 8, Prospect Hill. After his fathers death in 1896 he turned his attention to the holiday trade and concentrated on portraiture and Photo finishing for the holiday makers.
	Stanley Keig	1898-1964	Stanley Keig was 20 when he returned from the First World War. Times were very hard and there was no room for him in the family business. He became a Traveling Salesman for a local weavers and then became Traveling Companion to Prince Nicholas of Hungary. Tourism on the Island was booming again by 1928 and Stanley returned and set up a chain of Photo Kiosks and one of the earlier Photo finishing labs.
	J Nick Keig	1936-	Nick Keig returned to the Island in 1956 after completing 2 years National Service as a trainee pilot in the RAF. He joined his father in the business and managed it from 1960 until his retirement in 1992. He enjoyed the heydays of the tourist industry, employing some 100+ during the summer months, had 15 summer shops and processed thousands of holiday snaps every day. His hobby was boat building and raced some of the earliest Trimarans built during the winters. These vessels were all named ‘Three Legs of Mann’ and were well known in international ocean racing circles.
	Tim Keig	1965-	Tim Keig became the 5^th generation to take the reins in 1992. The Island holiday trade was diminishing and he ventured into Photo finishing for Northern Ireland and Sweden. As the Internet gained in respectability he ran www.digital-cameras.com. One of the largest Digital Camera sites in the UK. And in 2003 he became the proud father of Sam! Possibly in a few years he will be the 6^th Generation! Who knows?