Cath Jones
(April 26, 2015) I lived in Sandbach till I went to University in 1958 and bought my first records in Cath Jones' shop - 78s by Humphrey Lyttleton and Louis Armstrong! It was a single storey wooden building - lots of sheet music as well as records. I don't remember the "fancy goods." There was another record shop in Sandbach, on High Street, round about 1956 or 1957, but it didn't last very long - I don't have the vaguest idea what it was called. Comment: Ray Astbury
(August 30, 2015) According to the website sandbachwhatson.weebly.com Cath Jones converted her father’s cabinet making shop in Congleton Road into a record shop. It opened in August 1947 and it closed for the last time on the 29 February 2000 exactly 18 months after Cath Jones died. Comment: Ray Astbury
Richard Lees "Have many fond memories from the 60's, of browsing the records while my parents went to the market. Cath always made me welcome (even though I had little money to spend!), and I still have many of the records I did buy." (April 15, 2015).
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I lived in Newfield street across the road and me and my best mates , Sandra and Bev Chaddock who lived in the Kings Arms used to get all our records from there.
Catch used to pay is in goods to pick the apples from her trees in her garden. She gave us a kite each one time. She and her husband Wilf used to take us to Bradwall village hall when Wilf and his band were playing.
They were a lovely couple and I have very fond memories of them and my time in Newfield street when I was a child.
I used to be an Astbury too. My Dad was Albert Astbury and my Mum was Rosemary.
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Karen Grierson
(2020)
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Many an hour in her shop while parents in the market. Bought lots of sheet music from there and my roy orbison LPs. Never pushed to make a purchase, hours browsing. Good memories
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roger buckley
(2020)
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I remember Cath Jones's very well bought my first ever single from there around 1974 My 'Coo ca choo' by Alvin Stardust. you could just roam about for ages in there... Nice memories.
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Mark Clarke
(2021)
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Living around Congleton in the 1980s I heard about Cath Jones' shop and biked over to have a look. I was in search of some old Tamla Motown stuff to remind me of an old girlfriend, I was into punk by then. I was astounded by the large wooden hut filled with bins of singles, anything you could think of. I picked up a few singles by The Supremes et al and a triple album from Stevie Wonder. Never went back but what a find.
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John Jordan
(2021)
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Used to go to Cath Jones’s regularly in the 60’s whilst at the Grammar School. It played a big part in my passion for vinyl and collecting/hoarding in general. Remember one Friday afternoon while my friend Pete and me were in there having a good rummage and she had put on James Brown’s Sex Machine for us when in walked the teacher / school vicar who was ‘supervising’ us. That would be another detention then!
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Geoff Lucas
(2022)
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I went into Kath Jones record shop and bought my first 7 inch record save the last dance for me by the Drifters and spent my 3 and sixpence of my paper boy money and I was hooked and built my first record collection I was 12 years old then when I went to Sandbach Secondary school after school I went in most days my collection grew and grew into 2000 over the years still collected and still got my collection today still rare records today 2023 RIP Kath and Wilf Jones thanks for the memories.
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Roger Gaskell
(2023)
(August 30, 2015) According to the website sandbachwhatson.weebly.com Cath Jones converted her father’s cabinet making shop in Congleton Road into a record shop. It opened in August 1947 and it closed for the last time on the 29 February 2000 exactly 18 months after Cath Jones died. Comment: Ray Astbury
Richard Lees "Have many fond memories from the 60's, of browsing the records while my parents went to the market. Cath always made me welcome (even though I had little money to spend!), and I still have many of the records I did buy." (April 15, 2015).
Comment
I lived in Newfield street across the road and me and my best mates , Sandra and Bev Chaddock who lived in the Kings Arms used to get all our records from there.
Catch used to pay is in goods to pick the apples from her trees in her garden. She gave us a kite each one time. She and her husband Wilf used to take us to Bradwall village hall when Wilf and his band were playing.
They were a lovely couple and I have very fond memories of them and my time in Newfield street when I was a child.
I used to be an Astbury too. My Dad was Albert Astbury and my Mum was Rosemary.
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Karen Grierson
(2020)
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Many an hour in her shop while parents in the market. Bought lots of sheet music from there and my roy orbison LPs. Never pushed to make a purchase, hours browsing. Good memories
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roger buckley
(2020)
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I remember Cath Jones's very well bought my first ever single from there around 1974 My 'Coo ca choo' by Alvin Stardust. you could just roam about for ages in there... Nice memories.
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Mark Clarke
(2021)
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Living around Congleton in the 1980s I heard about Cath Jones' shop and biked over to have a look. I was in search of some old Tamla Motown stuff to remind me of an old girlfriend, I was into punk by then. I was astounded by the large wooden hut filled with bins of singles, anything you could think of. I picked up a few singles by The Supremes et al and a triple album from Stevie Wonder. Never went back but what a find.
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John Jordan
(2021)
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Used to go to Cath Jones’s regularly in the 60’s whilst at the Grammar School. It played a big part in my passion for vinyl and collecting/hoarding in general. Remember one Friday afternoon while my friend Pete and me were in there having a good rummage and she had put on James Brown’s Sex Machine for us when in walked the teacher / school vicar who was ‘supervising’ us. That would be another detention then!
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Geoff Lucas
(2022)
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I went into Kath Jones record shop and bought my first 7 inch record save the last dance for me by the Drifters and spent my 3 and sixpence of my paper boy money and I was hooked and built my first record collection I was 12 years old then when I went to Sandbach Secondary school after school I went in most days my collection grew and grew into 2000 over the years still collected and still got my collection today still rare records today 2023 RIP Kath and Wilf Jones thanks for the memories.
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Roger Gaskell
(2023)