Symphonia

1964 - Symphonia Records opened on Cookson Street, providing competition for Ray’s Melody Inn - later to be called Melody House at 53 Bond Street (later moved to Bolton Street to replace the Pot Shop), where rare records could be bought (Ray’s Melody Inn also had shops in Market Street – with Graffiti Records on the first floor, and at 7 Market Square in Kirkham – now the Kirkham Pet Centre). Just round the corner on Church Street was the Record Mart (Smokey Joe’s).