IN the search for unique furniture for our homes and a conscious desire to recycle it has become fashionable to find new uses for unwanted and defunct objects.

Popular television programmes have been based on the concept and now businesses are starting to upcycle too.

Antiques expert Ken Hewitt was keen to find a new use for old cameras when he discovered a website showing upcycling.

Armed with a knowledge of electronics he decided to convert them into lamps for his shop, Quirky Old Stuff in King's Head Street, Harwich.

"They are really interesting things and it's nice to think they will have a new use because we all have digital cameras so most of these will never be used as cameras again," he said