Comment: Fox’s Record (& Tape!) Centre in Alfreton, Derbyshire was very dear to me. I went to school in Alfreton (Mortimer Wilsons! - also long gone) and there were often more kids in Fox’s than there were in the classrooms!
The shop was nothing special, but had a nice atmosphere and you always knew where everything was. Fox’s sold records, tapes and 8-tracks in the 1970s when I discovered it, got in early with CDs a decade later, and also rented out a nice selection of video cassette films. You can see these on the left side of the picture. This isn’t my photo, but it’s the only one I could find. I’m guessing from the Whitney Houston album in the window, this was from 1987.
Fox’s closed its doors in 1993. Alfreton isn’t a big town, but by then WH Smith’s, Woolworths and Boots all sold records, tapes and CDs and they couldn’t compete. Wish I could find more pictures... The shop is as clear as a bell in my mind’s eye, but that’s not much use to anyone else.
Comment: Fox’s Record (& Tape!) Centre in Alfreton, Derbyshire was very dear to me. I went to school in Alfreton (Mortimer Wilsons! - also long gone) and there were often more kids in Fox’s than there were in the classrooms!
The shop was nothing special, but had a nice atmosphere and you always knew where everything was. Fox’s sold records, tapes and 8-tracks in the 1970s when I discovered it, got in early with CDs a decade later, and also rented out a nice selection of video cassette films. You can see these on the left side of the picture. This isn’t my photo, but it’s the only one I could find. I’m guessing from the Whitney Houston album in the window, this was from 1987.
Fox’s closed its doors in 1993. Alfreton isn’t a big town, but by then WH Smith’s, Woolworths and Boots all sold records, tapes and CDs and they couldn’t compete. Wish I could find more pictures... The shop is as clear as a bell in my mind’s eye, but that’s not much use to anyone else.