Bell Jewellers at 1597 Bayview Ave. will close at the end of January. It will be the passing of a business which has operated at the location for 78 years. The genial owner of Bell’s is Photis Philos. He has said that unless someone offers to buy the business he will lock the doors for the last time in the new year. Mr. Philos is known universally up and down South Bayview as Photi and has owned Bell’s since 1980. Advertising in recent years recounts his credentials as a master horologist and master jeweller trained in Europe. Philos is 68 and can hardly be faulted as winter approaches for dreaming of some time in the coastal islands of Greece. He is a staunch Rotarian and an inveterate golfer and can be seen daily with other Bayview fans of the links coming and going from the Second Cup and elsewhere. Bell Jewellers has a liquidation sale underway and is well worth a visit.
