BillF Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2013/mar/29/10-best-record-stores-in-pictures#/?picture=406419445&index=9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 (edited) Which one's MG in the Spillers picture? I used to use Jumbo in Leeds though it's a few years since I last visited. Very good shop. They used to keep a fair few 'Chronological Classics'. Edited March 29, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzjet Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 Love the one in Barnstaple. Looks like the owner never leaves the shop. Or perhaps he can't actually get out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 'Ben's Collectors' Records' in Guildford is a great little place. Ben know's his jazz too ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 That's Spillers' new premises, in Morgan Arcade. The photographer picked a good day for lighting the shop. I was absent Cob Records in Porthmadog is a very interesting shop in a tiny town. It's impossible to envisage where their customers come from but, from what I've heard, everyone in North Wales knows them. I've met people from right out in the sticks up there, who find speaking English very difficult (not deliberately, y'know), who know all about the early careers of Senegalese, Malian and Guinean bands - and I'm saying, 'so where did you hear that?' and the answer's always 'Cob Records'. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzjet Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Here's a very comprehensive gallery of photos of HMV in Oxford Street : HMV Oxford Street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 2 hours ago, Jazzjet said: Here's a very comprehensive gallery of photos of HMV in Oxford Street : HMV Oxford Street How well I remember that! That staircase! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Something distinctly "space-age" about some of those pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 First went in there on a memorable early trip to London at the age of 17. Can date it precisely, as the papers were full of "Russians Put Dog into Space" headlines - 4th October 1957. Must have been during my half-term holiday from school! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Does anyone remember the short lived Ronnie Scott's Record shop. It was just behind the Colosseum. I bought Out Of The Cool there and IIRC Ronnie was behind the counter. Last time I was in the area many years ago it was an adult book shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 2 hours ago, JohnS said: Does anyone remember the short lived Ronnie Scott's Record shop. It was just behind the Colosseum. I bought Out Of The Cool there and IIRC Ronnie was behind the counter. Last time I was in the area many years ago it was an adult book shop. There's a bit about it here John. Merry Xmas ! Ronnie Scotts Record Shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 2 hours ago, JohnS said: Does anyone remember the short lived Ronnie Scott's Record shop. It was just behind the Colosseum. I bought Out Of The Cool there and IIRC Ronnie was behind the counter. Last time I was in the area many years ago it was an adult book shop. Could just see Ronnie running one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Plus a good article about the history of All Change, including the Baker St shops. Only remember going once, in the pre Mole days, very well stocked with Impulses etc. All Change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 Thanks Bob, As I recall the shop was nowhere near as grand as it sounds in the those clippings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzjet Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 There seems to have been an art installation based around the old Dobell's Jazz Record shop. Lots of images here, including archive photos (the staff, Elvin Jones, Horace Silver, Errol Garner etc) : Dobells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, Jazzjet said: There seems to have been an art installation based around the old Dobell's Jazz Record shop. Lots of images here, including archive photos (the staff, Elvin Jones, Horace Silver, Errol Garner etc) : Dobells Thanks for that - much to my regret I missed this exhibition, well worth seeing by the look of it. Pretty sure I walked past the shop when it was boarded up ready for demolition in 1981 and think I paid one or two visits before that as their paper and plastic bags look very familiar. Too bad that I didn't save them ! Edited December 31, 2016 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 4 hours ago, Jazzjet said: There seems to have been an art installation based around the old Dobell's Jazz Record shop. Lots of images here, including archive photos (the staff, Elvin Jones, Horace Silver, Errol Garner etc) : Dobells Amazing collection! Wish I'd kept my Dobell's bags! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 31, 2016 Report Share Posted December 31, 2016 I'll have to dig out my Doug Dobell '77 label test pressings. £2 each from Mole ! If I'd got my act together earlier, could have offered them up for a temporary display berth in the Museum of London Dobells rack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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