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Name: Phil Farlow Comment: Sainsbury & Fisher Ltd were at 53 High Street, Andover from 1951 until the town redevelopment when they moved to Union Street in the late 1960s.
Although a small shop, it was for many years the only place in the district to get specialised musical merchandise. The staff was mainly friendly and would indifferently put up with people just listening to records and not buying. Music was played in the department - no booths.
One of the 1951 founders, Maud Sainsbury (née Clarke), had been connected with three former Andover music shops since just before World War I, namely E. Price & Son (from Bournemouth, established in Andover c.1906) which were succeeded by A.D. Robbins in the mid 1920s, which in turn became (the Andover branch of) Teague & King in 1932 until 1951.
Sainsbury & Fisher Ltd certainly had its genteel following - many were the people that remember taking music lessons above the shop as well - and Pete Staples of The Troggs recalls getting his first bass amp there. Regrettably no pictures have so far surfaced of the memorable shop frontages. The store finally closed not long after Mr Uva Sainsbury died, who together with Gilbert Fisher and his son John had provided a long radio, TV, music and records Andover retailing service. (25 January 2016)
Name: Phil Farlow
Comment: Sainsbury & Fisher Ltd were at 53 High Street, Andover from 1951 until the town redevelopment when they moved to Union Street in the late 1960s.
Although a small shop, it was for many years the only place in the district to get specialised musical merchandise. The staff was mainly friendly and would indifferently put up with people just listening to records and not buying. Music was played in the department - no booths.
One of the 1951 founders, Maud Sainsbury (née Clarke), had been connected with three former Andover music shops since just before World War I, namely E. Price & Son (from Bournemouth, established in Andover c.1906) which were succeeded by A.D. Robbins in the mid 1920s, which in turn became (the Andover branch of) Teague & King in 1932 until 1951.
Sainsbury & Fisher Ltd certainly had its genteel following - many were the people that remember taking music lessons above the shop as well - and Pete Staples of The Troggs recalls getting his first bass amp there. Regrettably no pictures have so far surfaced of the memorable shop frontages. The store finally closed not long after Mr Uva Sainsbury died, who together with Gilbert Fisher and his son John had provided a long radio, TV, music and records Andover retailing service.
(25 January 2016)