Record Corner (Ashford)

This piece, about Ashford's record stores, in the 'Kentish Express' dated 26th November 1976 mentions Record Corner: “Every taste in music from Bowie to Beethoven is catered for in the town's record stores. The Turntable, Record Corner, Guy Norris, Boots, Woolworths and Burnage’s. Burnage, proudly displaying the sign “‘House of Music,’’ has a fine tradition of selling musical instruments, music and records. It moved from North Street to the High Street (now Woolworths) in 1923 and then on to its present site in Bank Street.”

I found this advert in the 'Kentish Express' dated 19th July 1974: “RECORD CORNER FOR HI-FI; RECORD CORNER FOR POP; RECORD CORNER FOR UNIT AUDIO; RECORD CORNER FOR CLASSICAL; RECORD CORNER FOR CASSETTES. RECORD CORNER 108 HIGH STREET, ASHFORD 20636.”

I found this advert in the 'Kentish Express' dated 10th December 1965: “RECORD CORNER FOR ALL TYPES OF RECORDS. ALSO LARGE SELECTION OF RADIOGRAMS and RECORD-PLAYERS. 39 NEW RENTS, ASHFORD.”
... and this advert in the 15th December 1967 edition: “RECORD CORNER for ASHFORD'S MOST COMPREHENSIVE RECORD SELECTION. Also: RECORD CARRYING CASES; RACKS and many other Gift Items. 39 NEW RENTS • ASHFORD 636.”

Record Corner was on my lunchtime agenda when I left school and started work in 1965. Three chart singles for £1 every week from my office wages left me with a fiver! A few years later and they were buying product from me, and so started my 40 years in the record business. Mike McQ who owned the shop was very business-like but it was a young Brian R (soul man) who ran things. Longplayer bought the shop some years later and when they sold up it became Our Price.