Comment: My memories of the shop 'Broadmeads' in the 1960s is that it mainly sold TVs, radiograms, portable record players, radios etc., these items were on the ground floor of the shop.
Upstairs, there was a large open space which was where they sold LPs, EPs, and singles. I bought several records from there in my youth, all singles and EPs, mainly on Saturdays when I wasn't at work. Some of the records that I purchased there were by The Shadows, my favourite instrumental group.
My late mother bought an old radiogram for me from a local neighbour when I was about 15 or 16 years old, back in 1961/62. It had a dated turntable record deck built in and a really good Armstrong radio, which had a green 'cat's eye' tuner as they were known. A clever bit of technology for the time, the illuminated green coloured 'cat's eye' changed shape, and when you were tuned in correctly to a radio station it appeared very narrow, it went wider when not tuned in.
I also remember a record outlet inside the large arcade in Rye Lane, the arcade still remains to this day, sadly not the same now!
In the late 1950's I purchased on record the song about Tom Dooley by the late Lonnie Donegan & his Skiffle Group, it was from that record outlet in the arcade. It was a 78rpm record on vinyl, not the hardened shellac versions that were usually on sale. At the time it was a novelty to get a 78 speed disc on vinyl and we only had at the time an old wind-up gramophone player at home which belonged to my late grandparents.
There was also Broadmeads at the back of Woolworth Brixton.
Name: Gonzo-Geezer Aziz Comment: There used to be a Broadmeads electrical store in the 1950/1960s. Our mother bought our first television set, and record player there when we moved to Stockwell in 1957. I later bought my first 45s - 7" chart singles there, December 1961, blew all the money I had saved from my 13th birthday...
Name: John Nutting Comment: I worked there in the 1960s. Upstairs in the record shop but mainly downstairs selling TVs and Radios. My memories of the Blaupunkt Radiograms are still vivid... we used to sell a lot. I only worked Saturday. (2022)
Comment: My memories of the shop 'Broadmeads' in the 1960s is that it mainly sold TVs, radiograms, portable record players, radios etc., these items were on the ground floor of the shop.
Upstairs, there was a large open space which was where they sold LPs, EPs, and singles. I bought several records from there in my youth, all singles and EPs, mainly on Saturdays when I wasn't at work. Some of the records that I purchased there were by The Shadows, my favourite instrumental group.
My late mother bought an old radiogram for me from a local neighbour when I was about 15 or 16 years old, back in 1961/62. It had a dated turntable record deck built in and a really good Armstrong radio, which had a green 'cat's eye' tuner as they were known. A clever bit of technology for the time, the illuminated green coloured 'cat's eye' changed shape, and when you were tuned in correctly to a radio station it appeared very narrow, it went wider when not tuned in.
I also remember a record outlet inside the large arcade in Rye Lane, the arcade still remains to this day, sadly not the same now!
In the late 1950's I purchased on record the song about Tom Dooley by the late Lonnie Donegan & his Skiffle Group, it was from that record outlet in the arcade. It was a 78rpm record on vinyl, not the hardened shellac versions that were usually on sale. At the time it was a novelty to get a 78 speed disc on vinyl and we only had at the time an old wind-up gramophone player at home which belonged to my late grandparents.
There was also Broadmeads at the back of Woolworth Brixton.
Name: Gonzo-Geezer Aziz
Comment: There used to be a Broadmeads electrical store in the 1950/1960s. Our mother bought our first television set, and record player there when we moved to Stockwell in 1957. I later bought my first 45s - 7" chart singles there, December 1961, blew all the money I had saved from my 13th birthday...
Name: John Nutting
Comment: I worked there in the 1960s. Upstairs in the record shop but mainly downstairs selling TVs and Radios. My memories of the Blaupunkt Radiograms are still vivid... we used to sell a lot. I only worked Saturday.
(2022)