Crown Records

Name: Ray
Comment: I was the original manager of Crown Records when it opened on 12 December 1970. It was a family-owned business which was sold a year or so after I emigrated to the US in 1976. I still have a few of the Crown Record bags in a scrapbook and a painting of the shop in my office. In addition, a friend of mine, Pete, and I ran Surge Disco for about four years before selling the equipment. Great days! BTW, the best-selling albums when I managed the shop were James Taylor's Sweet Baby James and Youv'e Got A Friend and the best-selling single was My Sweet Lord - George Harrison.
(13 March 2015)

Name: Hugh Weldon
Comment: Wow, that's where I bought most of my records in the 1970s. It was still a record shop until a few years ago. The booth where I listened to a whole side of Atomic Rooster's Death Walks Behind You. The Blind Faith record they never sold. Mark Blanchard, John D Hodgkinson and other Crosbyites...
(14 March 2015)

Name: Adrienne Towell
Comment: I have such lovely memories of spending time in Crown Records. Choosing a record, that we couldn't afford to buy; but listening to it in "the booth". Meeting up with our friends to spend Saturday afternoon there. When I finally started working in the smaller Boots Chemist, which I think was a door or two away, I bought my first record, something I've never forgotten. The Three Degrees, When Will I See You Again?.
(22 March 2015)

Name: Kevin Kilbane
Comment: Hi, I'm watching a programme on singles and it's asking celebs where they bought their first single, what it was, and were from, so it got me to Google Crown Records. Great to see the original shop front, my single was Rocket Man by Elton John, 1972. I had just started as an apprentice joiner on the site building Quicksave. Great memories.
(8 January 2016)

Name: Steve Davies
Comment: Distinctly remember saving up £3.99 in copper coins from my dad's loose change each day to buy Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John back in the day. Still listening to it more than 40 years on!
(2018)

Name: Dave Hughes
Comment: I bought all my records from Crown Records… I never felt cool enough to hang out in the listening booths so I always made my purchase and ran off home to listen. My first single bought with my own money was Mud's Tiger Feet which is an amazing start that moved into prog rock, buying most of my Yes albums there along with Floyd and early Rush.

Probably by this time it was operating as Quirk Records but we always referred to it as Crown records. Happy days.
​(2022)