HMV RIP

**Nick Armstrong** · 29-12-18, 18:43

Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

We've got a good one of those in York, too.

Sadly, the website is being redesigned:

The Hat Shop York – Hats for all occasions – weddings, the races, parties and daywear

http://www.hatshopyork.co.uk

Hats for all occasions - weddings, the races, parties and daywear

but Google 'york hat shop' and you should get to see some of their window displays.

Yes a few left in London too - Bate's, Christys, Lock & Co. But imagine how many there were in the 50s and earlier - when in all the b&w photos you see, every bloke is wearing a hat...

**Nick Armstrong** · 29-12-18, 18:48

Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post

Oh, yes - like buying the Toscanini Verdi Requiem from the Leeds store (sold by a very snooty salesman - the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony playing over the shop system, so I didn't think he had very much to be snooty about) in March 1979; or the Karajan Ring box from one of the London stores after my first salary payment on Saturday, 29th January, 1983; and countless other occasions.

Yes, my favourite lunch-time activity used to be to hop on a bus due west along Holborn to the newer of the two Oxford St. stores, spend half-an-hour flicking through the shelves, then back (usually with a purchase or three) within the hour (or so

). Thing of the past (not least because it would nowadays take most of the hour to get there given the terrible traffic along there nowadays).

If there was less time available, it would be a stroll to MDC or Farringdon (Holborn, Cheapside or Creed Lane)

The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there...

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 29-12-18, 18:59

The last time that I went into a(n?) HMV shop and bought something was on 4th December 2009, when a very helpful assistant went into the backrooms of the Leeds store and found a remaining copy of the DECCA "Wagner: the Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival" (33 discs for £35).

I've been in stores infrequently since then, but they've never had owt I want to buy. Still, quite satisfactory that my very last HMV Shop purchase was in the same store that I made my very first one in, 30 years earlier.

**teamsaint** · 29-12-18, 18:59

Originally posted by Caliban View Post

Yes a few left in London too - Bate's, Christys, Lock & Co. But imagine how many there were in the 50s and earlier - when in all the b&w photos you see, every bloke is wearing a hat...

I think you may be looking at the wrong photos !!

Or perhaps not.

Any road up, what was the record shop in Oxford street ( I think) that I went to once,in a basement ? Had a great selection of trendy punk stuff back in about ‘79.

**oddoneout** · 29-12-18, 20:01

Originally posted by cloughie View Post

Well I suppose that would be an alternative 'jam session'!

Gladys Knight and the Pips...

**cloughie** · 29-12-18, 20:43

Originally posted by oddoneout View Post

Gladys Knight and the Pips...

With Chuck Berry.

**Eine Alpensinfonie** · 30-12-18, 07:44

I have avoided HMV shops like the plague. They mean one thing to me.

Noise.

**underthecountertenor** · 30-12-18, 12:00

Originally posted by Caliban View Post

If there was less time available, it would be a stroll to MDC or Farringdon (Holborn, Cheapside or Creed Lane)
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...or the rather haphazard Templar Records on Chancery Lane or High Holborn?

**cloughie** · 30-12-18, 13:42

Originally posted by Caliban View Post

Yes a few left in London too - Bate's, Christys, Lock & Co. But imagine how many there were in the 50s and earlier - when in all the b&w photos you see, every bloke is wearing a hat...

...and they were all such nobby ones, in just the proper style!

**Serial_Apologist** · 30-12-18, 16:57

For anybody who's into jazz I've noted down 3 outlets still going in London which I intend investigating sometime:

Jazz CDs - 18 Linhope St, Marylebone NW1
Turnstyle Records - 227 Streatham High Rd
Souljazz Records - 7 Broadwick St, Soho

**kernelbogey** · 30-12-18, 17:04

Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

For anybody who's into jazz I've noted down 3 outlets still going in London which I intend investigating sometime:

Jazz CDs - 18 Linhope St, Marylebone NW1
Turnstyle Records - 227 Streatham High Rd
Souljazz Records - 7 Broadwick St, Soho

What, please, would be the London equivalents for 'Classical' Music?
(Foyles has been mentioned above.)

**Bryn** · 30-12-18, 17:16

Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post

What, please, would be the London equivalents for 'Classical' Music?
(Foyles has been mentioned above.)

Les Aldrich - London, XGL

https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/les-aldrich-london?osq=Cd+Store+Classical+Music

LES ALDRICH, 98 Fortis Green Road, London N10 3HN, 2 Photos, Mon - 9:30 - 18:00, Tue - 9:30 - 18:00, Wed - 9:30 - 18:00, Thu - 9:30 - 18:00, Fri - 9:30 - 18:00, Sat - 9:00 - 17:30, Sun - 11:00 - 16:00