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Pat Jarnet

Does anyone remember Dysons the record shop in King Street, I saw Diana Dors in there once and my Cousin Pat Allsop worked there.

I bought my one and only guitar in Dysons. It was £4.00 that was a lot of money then. I was earning £2.75 a week at Horlicks, so saved weekly for anything I 'had to have'. With the guitar I bought a music book written by Bert Weedon. I taught myself the 4 chords, then, my brother somehow managed to produce a tea chest. He fixed a broom handle to it with string attached to the top of the handle and the side of the tea chest..... we borrowed our Mother's washboard, or scrubbing board, it was metal so had to borrow from her as well, two or three metal thimbles.....I can only imagine the noise we made, I know it hurt my ears... I remember playing the skiffle music outside in the garden, and Fred, our neighbour, who was a great chap, just stood and laughed, in amazement I suppose. Skiffle was 'the thing' on the radio, television and 'records'.....we had to have a go.......

When we bought our first records, there was a shop down Peascod Street, and I saw it on your photos in the Norman Wisdom 'then and now' section. (that's excellent). We walked into the shop, ask for a certain record, 78 rpm., then went into a booth to listen to it.....I bought Johnnie Mathis singing 'Misty'...which I still have!!!! You see, your one photo of Dysons shop has set us thinking about our youth.....My husband bought many Humphrey Lyttelton records, and we were so sad to hear the announcement of his death on the radio this morning....great man, who will be missed.


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King Street/Queen Maidenhead / Berkshire

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