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Unidentified

A very short film, shot in 1963, of an unidentified London record shop. At 1:52 the camera shows the view out of the shop window onto a London street. Maybe someone will recognise it and come up with a name and where it was located in London.

Do you know this shop?

Keith Baba and the strapline is probably 'The latest in Blue Beat' BUT the 'Bl' right at the edge of the label could be 'B1' (for Birmingham, where there is a Cambridge Street). There are also Cambridge Streets in other areas with West Indian communities like Coventry, Bradford, Liverpool and Aylesbury. Quite an enigma this one! Mark Griffiths.

1965 Yardbirds in a record shop but which one? Can you recognise the shop? I think the wallpaper might help!

Record Shops Of Soho Map Available Now

It is A 2 size if you would like a copy please email recordhshoparchive@btinternet.com for price.

Record Store Day 2016

April 14-21, The Museum of Soho will be hosting a "Pop Up" exhibition at 35 Beak St, London W1F 9SX, in collaboration with The British Record Shop Archive, highlighting "Bowie's Soho" as part of Record Store Day 2016. David Bowie's love of music was nurtured by record shops in suburban Bromley where he frequented three shops: Medhurst's department shop, Roberston's music shop and Furlong's, a record shop where he briefly worked as a Saturday boy. When David Jones - as he was still known then - moved into Soho as a teenager with dreams of stardom he continued to frequent record shops with Dobell's jazz, blues and folk shop on Charing Cross Road & HMV's Oxford Street shop being his favourites. Young David Jones would visit various record shops in the UK to promote his debut 45. Throughout his life he spoke fondly of the London record shops that helped shape his sound and vision.
We have updated last years popular “Record Shops of Soho-1946-1996” map adding 50+ more shops.
A2 Posters can be purchased at the "Pop Up". Also on display will be Illustrators Tributes To David Bowie, recently featured in Spindle Magazine.
Kindly supported by Shaftesbury plc.
April 16, As part of the exhibition we have organised free, special screenings from the BBC Arena Archive of Bowie related documentaries at 01 Zero One Studios. Book here.Doors Open:15.00
Screenings Start:15.30
"Nic Roeg: It's About Time", The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Performance and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
"My Way", An investigation of the appeal and power of this popular song.
"Walk on the Wild Side", The story behind Lou Reed's classic song celebrating transvestism
Kindly supported by Time Out London_ BBC Arena_01 Studios
and a tour of Bowie's Soho.
April 15, 19:00Tour 1:
April 17,14:00 Tour 2:
Walks on the Wild Side. A Tour of Bowie's Soho.
Soho has played an important role in shaping the careers of many legendary artists.
Step back in time to the 1960's and 1970's and walk in the footsteps of David Bowie in this fascinating area of London.
Meeting point, outside Foyles Bookshop. 107 Charing Cross Rd. London, WC2H 0DT
Two tours are scheduled lasting approx. 1 hour 40 min
The tour is led by London tour guide and blogger Nika Garrett.

BRSA has now done various exhibitions on local record shop of the past over the last 5 year in London but would like to expand to your area. Northampton is on board anyone else interested Email recordshoparchive@btinternet.com

Berkshire
A mystery shop traded for only a few months around 1975/76 across the River Thames in Caversham. It was on the corner of Gosbrook Road and Wolsey Street and was owned/run by a man named, I think, John Eddy or Eddie. Stock was all deletions. Can you name that shop?
Herne Hill Record Shop Reggae
Half Moon Lane across from the pub in 1973 but I need a name. Below are shops that we need to find more details so they can be added to the archive. The name has been put forward by Stephen 'Railton Records'.

Berkshire

Name of the record shop set up by Debenhams at the back of their store in Minster Street, Reading;
was it either 'Just In' or 'Just In Time' or perhaps a slightly more pretentious 'Justin Tyme' ??
Shop traded in the early 70'

Thornton Heath

My friend and I remember a record shop located in a parade of shops on the corner of the junction of Brigstock Road and London Road, Thornton Heath. We think it was at No. 3 or 4 Brigstock Parade, or very close to that number. My friend remembers that... “It was a Mrs Woodger who ran the shop. I am pretty sure that she only sold records. She used to have Saturday girls helping her in the shop sometimes.”

On 20th Jan. 2014, Jane Bashford commented on a Bygone Croydon Facebook page: “Record shop on corner of London Road and Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath had booths.”

Maybe someone can come up with the name?
Dave Harwood.

Name for Streatham Record Shop

I have been trying to find the name of the small record store that ran in Streatham next to Streatham Hill Station from 1965 to 1970 ish ran by a classical music journalist Robert Leslie. I worked as asaturday jobber there for a week months in 1966/67. They sold a lot of jazz too and were one of the first to sell Freak Out by the Mothers Of Invention. A new vinyl store is about to open in the same space called Undercover. cheers Jon Jon Newey
Editor and publisher, Jazzwise

Birmingham Shop
Does anyone remember the name of the other reggae shop on Lozells Road in the 1970's. There was Black Wax but also another one a bit further a long Lozells Road. Email Zion ....owned by a man called paddy.