Beasley Bros

You can read a version of the Beasley Brothers story and their shop on Murray Grove at this link:
https://news.scp.co.uk/2022/09/beasley-brothers-repair-shop-ldf-2022/

Always struck me as an odd place to be selling records - right on a parade of shops in the middle of a couple of council estates. Not sure whether they sold new stuff or cut-outs/deletions alongside their repair business. Don't remember it being there when I was a frequent visitor to a pal who lived in one of the tenement blocks along from it in the early 80s (I do remember 'Salamis' off-licence which must have been along from it and the 'Merry Monarch' pub round the corner, which was anything but merry).

Beasley's as we locals knew it sold chart singles and they had a few boxes of older album's not a big range but I think you could order just about anything you wanted and they would get it for you. I bought my very first single Message in a Bottle from there in 1979 and a few more over the year's. Run by 3 lovely brother's, they looked after all the local's repairing electrical goods & would even collect and deliver large items that you couldn't carry yourself. They also repaired bicycle's & if a kid pushed a punctured bike in they repair it straight away! Probably the most honest repair shop in London, they gave the area a real sense of community and belonging. Last time I used the shop it had moved from the corner of Murray Grove/Cropley St to the middle of the next block at 100 Murray Grove. It was quite a moving moment as I could see that one brother was struggling with age &t he youngest brother had gone grey & one eye had exotropia. Oh yeah, they'd let you listen to records before you buy! On behalf of my parent's, all my family & friends, thanks for the service "Beas" (that what we called all 3 of them, never knew their name's 😁)