One of my favourite places - Windows in Newcastle was good as was Hamiltons in Middlesbrough, but Banks was truly an Aladdin's Cave for sheet music - very similar feeling walking into the jazz section at Tower Records in London for the 1st time or J&R in NYC for that matter. Great though the www is, I do think that the fact that "everything is available" now denies us that frisson of discovery ....
Even more OT, but Bev - can you tell me what was the Vaughan Williams so admired by Trotter and Harding in the Rotters Club ?
I've lent the book out so can't look it up !
Cheers