Francis Foot started to have an interest in photography not long after he became a gas fitter as his main profession. He had a fascination with phonographs and gramophones and soon learnt that this could be his new and improved career. His family bought a shop in Pitt Street, this is where Foot began this career as a photographer and his father and mother helped him make money by selling gramophones, records and other wares in Dumaresq Street.

Foot and his family prospered through keeping the HMV franchise for Jersey with their famous logo which was a painted that was created in 1899 by Francis Barraud. The painting of the dog Nipper listening to a cylinder phonograph still remains on the Dumaresq Street wall today.