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Godfrey & Co Ltd

Godfrey & Co., 88 Western Road, Hove, BN3 1JB
Godfrey & Co. opened up at this address in 1890 and closed in 1934. They are listed as a’ pianoforte and music warehouse’. It is quite likely that they also sold gramophone records, as by 1912 these records had effectively superseded the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s. Godfrey & Co. had replaced Cramer, Watts & Co, who were in the same business and had been trading from 1873 to 1889, but I suspect that they had not sold these ‘new’ records as the phonograph had only been invented on 18th July 1877 by Thomas Edison and his team.

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Dave Harwood
08 Dec 2023 at 08:32
I found this advert in the 'Aldershot News' dated 29th March 1935: "GODFREY & CO., LTD. 105 VICTORIA ROAD, ALDERSHOT. Telephone 132."
Dave Harwood
08 Dec 2023 at 08:38
I found this advert in the 'Exmouth Journal' dated 10th February 1912: “GODFREY & CO., Ltd., The Exeter Pianoforte Warehouse, 8, SIDWELL STREET, EXETER. Telephone: Exeter 352. Telegrams: Godfrey, Musician, Exeter.”
Dave Harwood
08 Dec 2023 at 09:19
I found this in the 'Kentish Independent' dated 10th October 1919: “Godfrey & Co., Ltd., Pianoforte Manufacturers. Factories: Upper Holloway, London; N. District Showrooms: 31, Plumstead Rd., Woolwich, S.E.18. And at Southsea, Brighton, Southampton, Aldershot, Exeter, Chatham, Gravesend, Canterbury, Yeovil, Ryde, Bournemouth, Landport, Weymouth, Swansea, Newport, Newton Abbot, etc.”
… plus this advert in the 'Kentish Independent' dated 29th April 1921: “Godfrey & Co., Ltd., PIANOFORTE MANUFACTURERS, 31, Plumstead Road, Woolwich, S.E.18. Tel: 284. ESTAB. 1859. FACTORIES - N. LONDON. Branches all over the Country.”
… and this advert in the 'Uxbridge & W. Drayton Advertiser' dated 3rd February 1950: "GODFREY & CO., LTD. 279/280, HIGH STREET, Tel. UXBRIDGE 606.

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8 Sidwell Street EX4 Exeter / Devon
88 Western Road BN3 1JB Hove / East Sussex
23 Union Street PO33 2DT Ryde / Hampshire & Isle of Wight
105 Victoria Road GU11 1JE Aldershot / Hampshire & Isle of Wight
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