Berwick Market, SoHO: Vinyl Purchases

[visualnickmos]

Berwick Street Market was a good traditional fruit & veg market when I lived in London (20 years ago). On regular visits since I've seen it go downhill, with stalls selling olives & things like artisanal bread . On my last visit in the middle of May most of the road was being dug up & there were very few market stalls. The cheap records were sold by a shop called Cheapo Cheapo, not actually in the market, but I think that closed some time ago.

(btw, the h in Soho isn't capitalised, as it's not an abreviation of anything, unlike the place in New York )

I lived in London for well-over 20years before moving south, 10 years ago. And yes - on successive visits 'home' I have seen the steep decline of 'old' Soho - including the diminishing market in Berwick St. Cheapo Cheapo did, indeed close down - maybe about 6 years ago. I can't tell you the number of absolute bargains I'd found there. Including a CD that possibly saved my life - another story. All my old haunts and favourite bits of London seemed doomed to the wrecking ball and/or that ghastly CrossRail

Second-hand CD outlets that have gone in the last say, 15 years:
- Covent Garden Records (Cambridge Circus)
- Cheapo Cheapo (Rupert St)
- Caruso (somewhere near Charlotte St)
- a little place (name?) just in a small street between/just off Leicester Sq and Charing Cross Rd run by two elderly-ish gents.
- Steve's Sounds (I think) (Little Newport St, 'Chinatown') - excellent classical section upstairs.
- a place in Cecil Court (between St Martin's Lane and Charing Cross Road)

Apologies for the trip down memory lane - a new thread, perhaps?

[ardcarp]

Ardcarp, Tiverton is on the canal, but you can only go about ten miles east by boat, and then you either have to pick up your boat and carry it across the A361, or turn back. It does carry on for a few more miles on the other side of the road, according to my OS map, but not very far.

No wonder The Canals never caught on.....

[cloughie]

Heck of an offer. Isn't Devon about where The Hound Of The Baskervilles is set? i always wanted to see the moor at night after reading that. Probably not his trip, but perhaps in the future...

Rfg
Devon is in England, east of the Tamar, west of which lies Cornwall, where the canals petered out and thr Romans did not stray very far, and occasionally we get some interesting vinyl.

[richardfinegold]

Rfg
Devon is in England, east of the Tamar, west of which lies Cornwall, where the canals petered out and thr Romans did not stray very far, and occasionally we get some interesting vinyl.

In The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Holmes hides out in a neolithic cave while he lets Watson do the heavy lifting. I wonder if the neolithic cave featured an old Garrard turntable and some old Decca records? Would have made the damp more bearable

[Pabmusic]

...- a place in Cecil Court (between St Martin's Lane and Charing Cross Road)...

Orchesographie. So many memories (not about CDs though).

[Pabmusic]

In The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Holmes hides out in a neolithic cave while he lets Watson do the heavy lifting. I wonder if the neolithic cave featured an old Garrard turntable and some old Decca records? Would have made the damp more bearable

You might care to know that Dartmoor prison at Princetown (which features in The Hound) was built to hold prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars, but was in fact constructed by American prisoners from the War of 1812. There's an American military cemetery there.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Holmes hides out in a neolithic cave while he lets Watson do the heavy lifting. I wonder if the neolithic cave featured an old Garrard turntable and some old Decca records? Would have made the damp more bearable

Not in a HIPP reading - HoB was written in 1901-03; Garrard began manufacturing in 1915 and the DECCA record company wasn't established until 1929.

[visualnickmos]

Orchesographie. So many memories (not about CDs though)

That's the name! I thought 'orchestra' somehow figured in it.

Second point; intriguing...

[cloughie]

In The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Holmes hides out in a neolithic cave while he lets Watson do the heavy lifting. I wonder if the neolithic cave featured an old Garrard turntable and some old Decca records? Would have made the damp more bearable

HMV records more appropriate with the dog attentively listening. OK Nipper no match for HoB. As for the playing system Garrard SP25 would stand up to the conditions but don't expect Wharfedale speakers in the South West.

[Pabmusic]

...Second point; intriguing...

Very typically I'm just too obscure. You called it a second-hand CD outlet. I only ever bought LPs there!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very typically I'm just too obscure. You called it a second-hand CD outlet. I only ever bought LPs there!

There was a whole 84, Charing Cross Road story that just never happened, there, Pabs!

[Pabmusic]

There was a whole 84, Charing Cross Road story that just never happened, there, Pabs!

So true, Ferney. My life is full of stories that never happened. (And some rather nice ones that did, of course.)

[visualnickmos]

So true, Ferney. My life is full of stories that never happened. (And some rather nice ones that did, of course.)

They're the ones that matter...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

They're the ones that matter...

[richardfinegold]

Not in a HIPP reading - HoB was written in 1901-03; Garrard began manufacturing in 1915 and the DECCA record company wasn't established until 1929.

Picky, picky....the movie versions of Hound weren't made until the 1930s....