After a few years he married another immigrant, Miriam Lipetz, and eventually opened a shop at 67 Saltmarket[1] for the design, sale and repair of photographic and scientific apparatus.
Like many Jewish immigrants to Glasgow, he settled in the Laurieston district of the Gorbals, first at 104 South Portland Street and then at 28 Abbotsford Place in 1917.
A year or so later Frank moved south to 72 Dixon Avenue in Crosshill, an area popular with up-and-coming Jewish families and which, like the Gorbals, had its share of synagogues and kosher shops.
While the original Charles Frank Ltd has ceased trading the rights to the name were acquired by former staff after the business was sold off.
Charles Frank Ltd now trades from 101 Rose Street Edinburgh and specialises in retail and wholesale Binoculars and Telescopes.