C. Bruce Miller & Co

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Name: dn784533
Comment: Another 'old-school' emporium. It sold musical instruments and sheet music upstairs, and records downstairs. On the counter was a huge crate of deletions and flops offered for 25p a pop (this would be about 1978). The shop moved to Church Street in the mid-1980s, and abandoned the idea of selling records, concentrating on musical instruments. Its Aberdeen branch lasted until early 2011.

Name: Richard Watt
Comment: Bruce Miller's two branches in Aberdeen were originally in George Street, where the record department was up a kind of half-stair at the back, and a little later in Holburn Street. Both of those had listening booths until the early eighties, but the stores never had the cachet of the Other Record Shop or Happy Trails. The two branches merged when they moved to 363 Union Street, and the record department disappeared altogether some time after that.
(21 April 2015)

Dave Harwood

19 Aug 2023 at 09:30

I found an advert in the Aberdeen Evening Express (dated 16th February 1943) that mentions C. BRUCE MILLER & CO., and other dealers in Aberdeen:
“HIS MASTER'S VOICE want all your old worn, scratched or chipped records to help to produce new ones. ANY QUANTITY ACCEPTED. IT'S URGENT! AN ALLOWANCE WILL BE PAID. Bring them now to GEORGE M. BOWMAN, 349 Union Street. J. & A. MARR, 11 Bridge Street. C. BRUCE MILLER & CO., 51-53 George Street. NEIL & CO., 45 Queen Street. PATERSON, SONS & MARR WOOD, LTD., 183 Union Street.”