This record shop in the Old Square, that used to be E Shotliffe’s in the 1930s , then changed hands to F & M Carr sometime in the 1950s .Some of my first 45 rpm singles were bought from this shop when I had my first Dansette record player in 1962. They also used to sell needles and styli suitable for all record players and gramophones. Songster needles in tins of 200 with different shades of volume loud, medium and soft tone, were sold in this shop as I used to buy them for my first acoustic wind-up gramophone in 1964. They cost 2 shillings and sixpence a tin ( 12-½ pence ) today. The gramophone dated back to 1924 was an HMV table model No.110 with a new design sound-box No.2 designed to reproduce the extended range of early electric recordings. The record on the turntable used to try out the gramophone was Guy Mitchell Chicka Boom b/w Hannah Lee on Philips PB 178 UK chart No.5 October 1953 and it sounded very antiquated and distorted played on this machine.
