- Record shops as meeting places and taste makers - National Museums Liverpool
"We got our first record player in 1960, when I was eleven. I can pinpoint it because that summer Elvis Presley had his smash UK and Stateside hit It's Now or Never. I went with my mother to Crease's record store on County Road, Walton, and she insisted that the first single we would purchase would be a real family treat. It had to be by The King of Rock 'n Roll." from Journeys Into Liverpool's Past by Ken Rogers
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Name: Geoffrey Murphy
Comment: The first record I bought was in 1970 from Robert Crease's record shop.
Out in the suburbs, there were two other shops which were operating at the time. Shurrock's in Breck Road (Anfield) was a small store but had a JMI account, displaying Vox amps in their window, and Crease's in County Road, Walton, tended to deal in acoustic instruments as well as school staples like mandolins, recorders, etc. Crease's stayed in business right up until the early 1980s.
“YOUR CHRISTMAS RECORDS, ALL IN STOCK From 1/6 AT ROBERT CREASE, 14, COUNTY ROAD, WALTON. H.M.V. AGENT.”
... and this in the 'Liverpool Echo' dated 10th December 1958:
“ROBERT CREASE FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS RECORDS. All long playing and stereos in stock. 14 COUNTY ROAD, WALTON. TEL: AINTREE 3215.”