Beatties Dept Store

The first was Beatties department store, at the bottom of Grange road. It had a pretty decent selection for a department store - I clearly remember flicking through the racks and seeing 'Weasels Ripped My Flesh' and Juicy Lucy's 'Get a Whiff of This' in and amongst the James Last and the Mantovani.  But all my early purchases were from Beatties, usually using record tokens rather than cash.
Imagine
Who's Next 
Trilogy
Pictures At An Exhibition  
Were the first, I recall.

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