Sydney Rumbelow

Rumbelows was an electrical appliance shop in Welwyn Garden City. It had a wire carousel rack of lps, a limited stock of easy listening and pop records presumably for the benefit of those who'd just bought a hi-fi kit from the same shop. This would be mid to late sixties and as teenager record fans we'd browse anything, anywhere. We'd chat up the girl sales assistant and get here to order things she'd never heard of folk and blues records,and prog.rock. Gradually their stock built up and, through us, it became more eclectic. More space was given up to it, though it remained primarily an electrical retailer. Disappeared decades ago.  Will Vine (sound of the world)

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