Lucy
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Got my first Walkman from there. I wonder what they do with the upstairs space now.
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Record Shops.
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Gramaisc
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Back when Boots had more than just two thousand slightly different shampoos.
They sold records, electronics, housewares, garden supplies and equipment, photography goods, home brew, etc.
It's a 'dead shop' to me now.
staffordjas
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I got most of mine from upstairs in Boots , and the shop on the bridge (next to Picture House)
kyoto49
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As is Smiths to me. Neither of them seem to serve a real purpose anymore
Rowley Reg
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Wouldn't mind listening to one of my LP's on this (Top Cashback have 7% extra) - can't really afford it though.
Anyone tried Sonos?
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Anyone tried Sonos?
Vinyl Set featuring Five and Pro-Ject | Sonos
Play vinyl records or stream digital music with a Sonos Five and a Pro-Ject T1 Turntable. Connect the turntable to Five to enjoy high-fidelity sound for your vinyl and the ability to stream music, radio, podcasts, and more. Connect other Sonos speakers to stream records to every room.
Gramaisc
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Terry Blood.
staffordjas
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Aaah yes , remember going there as well.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I still use my old 80s Technics turntable which has served me very well over the years.Wouldn't mind listening to one of my LP's on this (Top Cashback have 7% extra) - can't really afford it though.
Anyone tried Sonos?
Vinyl Set featuring Five and Pro-Ject | Sonos
Play vinyl records or stream digital music with a Sonos Five and a Pro-Ject T1 Turntable. Connect the turntable to Five to enjoy high-fidelity sound for your vinyl and the ability to stream music, radio, podcasts, and more. Connect other Sonos speakers to stream records to every room.
We have a Sonos system (albeit not a turntable) set up in the garage and it's very good in my opinion.
Gramaisc
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I still have my old Sony PS-212 that came from Tom Reekie. A direct drive thing.
I also got a pair of Wharfedale Linton 3XPs from him.
Ultimately, I got a pair of Wharfedale W4s from a chap at work. Almost needed planning permission for them.
Theresa Green
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I’ve been trying to remember the name of that place. Not sure if it was Jackie’s. We used to go in during school lunch break in late sixties. I remember it as mostly records downstairs & instruments upstairs. It was opposite Motorcycle Mecca.
Resales on Eastgate St/South Walls junction opposite the long gone pub used to sell secondhand records too.
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Gramaisc
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Resales had various locations. I still have a good few things I had from him.
Gramaisc
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I have received this, from an insider.
"I can walk down Greengate St. in my mind, past F. Allen & Son. and them having a grand piano for sale in their window. They sold records 78s, in the back.
In the late 1950s they were taken over by H. E. Parkes & Sons. They sold down the musical instrument stock, moved their now booming record business to St Mary’s Gate, and were the go to shop for the movers and the shakers of the newly mature post war wage earning generation The shop is still there, empty last time I passed, been many businesses have occupied the premises but for Golden Age Staffordians, it will be the record shop they bought their first record from.
Probably in the mid 1960s Parkes moved to Mill Street. Still booming business protected by a scheme to fix prices and limit the sale of records to approved retailers, called RPM Retail Price Maintenance, and despite Tom Reeky and occasional others dipping their toes in the business, did very well until, RPM was abolished, allowing Smiths, Boots, Woolworth, Tom Dick & Harry to discount best selling albums and chart singles, effectively pulling the carpet from under independent shops, and Lotus Records from SOT opened a branch across the street.
I could go on………."
"I can walk down Greengate St. in my mind, past F. Allen & Son. and them having a grand piano for sale in their window. They sold records 78s, in the back.
In the late 1950s they were taken over by H. E. Parkes & Sons. They sold down the musical instrument stock, moved their now booming record business to St Mary’s Gate, and were the go to shop for the movers and the shakers of the newly mature post war wage earning generation The shop is still there, empty last time I passed, been many businesses have occupied the premises but for Golden Age Staffordians, it will be the record shop they bought their first record from.
Probably in the mid 1960s Parkes moved to Mill Street. Still booming business protected by a scheme to fix prices and limit the sale of records to approved retailers, called RPM Retail Price Maintenance, and despite Tom Reeky and occasional others dipping their toes in the business, did very well until, RPM was abolished, allowing Smiths, Boots, Woolworth, Tom Dick & Harry to discount best selling albums and chart singles, effectively pulling the carpet from under independent shops, and Lotus Records from SOT opened a branch across the street.
I could go on………."
Goldilox
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Is there a Collectable Records online shop somewhere (ebay, Discogs)? That website is a bit old-fashioned, and I keep getting a message telling me my browser doesn't support frames when I try and look at what's in stock.