Nutley's Music shop/Tracks Records
"Nutleys Music shop" in the parade of shops near Thornton Heath station which was "old fashioned" & sold sheet music as well as records. I'm sure there were many others as well. Comment: Dave Harwood.
Phone book search results for ‘A. V. Nutley’ at 48 Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, showed it was open from 1954 to 1972. It then became ‘Tracks Records’ which continued to trade at the same address from 1972 to 1981. Comment: Dave Harwood
Terry Clemson: Remember Nutley's record shop. I was a regular customer !!!
I remember it still being there in the 1980’s and Terry Clemson remembers it on Bygone Croydon’s Facebook page:
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Tracks Records was my father's business (and I worked there as a Saturday boy in my early teens!). He traded from 1972 to 1987 (not 1981), having bought the business from the previous owner (who himself had bought it from Mr Nutley!).
Name
Elliot Thorpe
https://en-gb.facebook.com/BygoneCroydon/photos/a.470553009660273.107132.150705844978326/793411304041107/
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Hi there! My father Bernard H Thorpe owned and managed Tracks Records from 1972 and it continued to trade until 1987 (not 1981!) when British Rail sold that row of shops to an independent landlord who tripled the rent and forced closure of a number of the long-established businesses there. We became a mail-order company from 1987 until the late 1990s.
Name
Elliot Thorpe
(2020)
Phone book search results for ‘A. V. Nutley’ at 48 Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, showed it was open from 1954 to 1972. It then became ‘Tracks Records’ which continued to trade at the same address from 1972 to 1981. Comment: Dave Harwood
Terry Clemson: Remember Nutley's record shop. I was a regular customer !!!
I remember it still being there in the 1980’s and Terry Clemson remembers it on Bygone Croydon’s Facebook page:
Comment
Tracks Records was my father's business (and I worked there as a Saturday boy in my early teens!). He traded from 1972 to 1987 (not 1981), having bought the business from the previous owner (who himself had bought it from Mr Nutley!).
Name
Elliot Thorpe
https://en-gb.facebook.com/BygoneCroydon/photos/a.470553009660273.107132.150705844978326/793411304041107/
Comment
Hi there! My father Bernard H Thorpe owned and managed Tracks Records from 1972 and it continued to trade until 1987 (not 1981!) when British Rail sold that row of shops to an independent landlord who tripled the rent and forced closure of a number of the long-established businesses there. We became a mail-order company from 1987 until the late 1990s.
Name
Elliot Thorpe
(2020)
1983 of Bernard H Thorpe outside the shop. The photo was taken by Croydon Advertiser as part of an article they were running on him. Image Elliot Thorpe
Photo Image Elliot Thorpe