Record Shop
Is it my imagination or can anyone remember a record shop on the right hand side of Tower Bridge Rd - the Grange Rd end. There was Martins - the mens outfitters (last shop on the right) - Trees the jewellers and Bon Marsh the sweet shop - but inbetween those two there was a record shop where you could go in a booth and listen to a 45 before you bought it ?
Bett
I don't remember a record shop in Tower Bridge Rd, but there was one in the parade of shops opposite the drill hall off Abbey St - where we used to get the No1 or 199 to Greenwich
there was a record shop in tower bridge road,i think asians took it over and was a cheap jack shop
Seeing the name Trees has brought back memories. I bought my wedding ring there. My mother bought an ring there too as she never had an engagement ring. All were second hand.....
record stall in the market out side the old empire shop ,, oposite the george pub tower bridge rd
not forgetting the fish n chip shop in front of grange school ,, now a tandorri
The Fish and Chips Shop on Tower Bridge Road.
I think it was more to left of the Tower Tandoori (Facing the shops)
and in the 70's it was called Barnetts
Phil(Bermondsey Beat)
WASN'T THERE A LEADERS SHOE SHOP PRE-CHIP SHOP,AND,WAS THERE NOT ALSO A STATIONERS BY THE BUS STOP.I CAN'T RECALL A RECORD SHOP,BUT,I REMEMBER BUYING
SHE LOVES U(BEATLES) AND MONDAY,MONDAY(MAMAS+PAPAS) AT THE USED RECORD STALL WHICH WAS DIRECTLY OPPO MARTINS AT THE TIME,FOR TWO BOB EACH.
There was a record shop in TBR ,they used to supply "The Grand Cinema" in Grange road with
records and advertised of that on a scratched plate at the intervals between films.I can remember
that and that was in the 1930s on the sat matinees for the kids.Showing films with Johnny Mack
Brown,Kermit Maynard and his brother Ken,Johnny Wiesmuller,Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette,
And of course "FLASH GORDON" Many episodes of this was shown here.Having seen Flash
on the tv lately this was the same Flash.
The Lone Ranger used to be shown at "The Star" along with "The Mummy's Hand" all good serials.
There was also a record shop in Jamaica Rd called Jack Fersht on the corner of Cherry Garden St next to Karets, i bought my first ever record there, Light my fire by the Doors, he used to play it for you before you bought it on an old Dansette record player, how times have changed.
There was also a record shop in Jamaica Rd called Jack Fersht on the corner of Cherry Garden St next to Karets, i bought my first ever record there, Light my fire by the Doors, he used to play it for you before you bought it on an old Dansette record player, how times have changed.
-pdhathaway
I used to have a Dansette Tempo like this one...it was even the same colour!



AS USUAL,I BOW TO ELDER WISER HEADS,BILL AND BETT ARE CORRECT,THERE WAS A RECORD SHOP IN THE T.B.R( I ASKED MY BIG BRUVVER,AND HE PUT ME STRAIGHT!)
i remember that didn,t they used to call that shop Soapy Jacks opposite near enough was buntings the butchers and the sweet shop next to jacks had a parrot up on the curtain rail and if you came in the shop it would sceech out on the opposite corner little Cherry garden St was Dr Gilisons