Kings Castle

Name: Paul Robert Tonks
Comment: Bought so many records here!

Name: Ian Mitchell
Comment: Great shop, bought my first single there - Pretty Little Angel Eyes by Showaddywaddy! Also, after getting our first stereo, my dad bought some great albums from there - The Beatles' Greatest Hits, Glenn Miller, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, and Jimmy Shand…

Name: Andrew Stait
Comment: Use to love my parents taking me there. Aldridge looks so well cared for, all neat and tidy in the photo.

Name: Andrew John
Comment: That’s just brilliant. Records upstairs. Bought my first album there - Regatta de Blanc!

Name: Lesley Cleveley
Comment: Happy memories of times spent in the record department at Kings. Also going to the opening ceremony. We were so excited about a shop like Kings opening in our village.

Name: Gary Mincher
Comment: Got my first single from there, Blockbuster by The Sweet - a great shop.

Name: Susan Morton
Comment: I remember this, going upstairs and buying my records.

Name: Jane Hetherington
Comment: I used to love spending Saturday afternoons in Kings, I think the record department was upstairs!

Name: Karen Hewitt
Comment: I loved this shop, can see it now, upstairs and all the records, LPs and cassettes LOL. Bought my first single from there by Buster. Remember my dad buying all his James Last albums.

Name: Sue Page
Comment: Great little shop. Remember my dad taking us in there to the upstairs section to buy the latest record with our pocket money. Happy days!

Name: Jackie Neath
Comment: Spent a fair amount of time in Kings and a few pennies, happy days.

Name: Karen Cooper Turley
Comment: My nan and grandad lived in Aldridge and would take me and my sister every Saturday for our magazines. Loved rummaging around in the discount baskets.

Name: Mark Hyde
Comment: The shop was originally opened by Ken Dodd. Still have the single he was giving away - Happiness.

Name: Sue Mason
Comment: I used to work in the record and book department around 1973?Loved it !

Name: Mike Hawes
Comment: Remember it opening, it had everything, even bus passes in the upstairs record department. It was one of the few places open on Saturday afternoon and later Sunday morning

Name: Christopher Dean
Comment: I bought all my records there... you could even listen to them first.

Name: Ian Davidson
Comment: I bought my very first album upstairs back in the early seventies (Queen's Night at the Opera!), that was such a long, long time ago...

Name: Chris King
Comment: Yep, my bike would regularly be leaning up against that window!

Name: Melek Lisa Yildirim
Comment: Spent hours and hours going through the LPs at Kings. Purchased my first single from there. Happy days.

Name: Louise Thompson
Comment: Was just going to say, that is where I bought my first record from as well, I think it was upstairs!

Name: Lindsey Chapman
Comment: Bought my first record there and loads more after! And lots of sweets after school.

Name: Gill Beddowes
Comment: They had a good selection of LPs that you could sift through to your heart's content.

Name: Jo Butterly
Comment: My Dad took me there for my first single... Seven Tears by The Goombay Dance Band, released in 1980. Happy memories.

Name: Jackie Attwood
Comment: I remember the footprints going up the stairs.

Name: Joyce Peel
Comment: This brings back so many memories. Loved that shop, so much to see. Remember going upstairs to buy my records.

Name: Db Bear
Comment: Great memories, loved that shop.

Name: Deirdre Ann Snape
Comment: It was a fantastic store.

Name: Mark Sheldon
Comment: How old is the picture, guys? It’s great.

Name: Vera Cartwright
Comment: Good memories, records upstairs - showing my age!

Name: Helen O'Shea Parker
Comment: It was a great shop.

Name: Mary Price
Comment: Ken Dodd was there, I took my eldest daughter that day.

Name: Paul Higgins
Comment: Got my first single from there: Boney M - Ma Baker. God fogive me.

Name: Maz Cleaver
Comment: My pocket money spent there. 1972.