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Name: Dave Butlin
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Bought my first real guitar from there. It was a burgundy Rossetti six-string jazz style. Cost eight guineas at the time. 15 guineas would have secured a green electric version. Also bought Bert Weedon's Play in a Day and a bunch of plectrums! Bought some records there too. Very classy shop!
(12 December 2014)

Name: Bohdan Hynda
Comment: I worked in the Neptune Restaurant on Fish Street, Northampton. Did Fraser Mackenzie's music store exist in the 1960s?
I remember a music store opposite the restaurant.
(2020)

Dave Harwood
11 Oct 2023 at 06:35
I found an advert in the ‘Northampton Chronicle & Echo’ dated 1st August 1931: “ALBERT SANDLER - MEET HIM AT FRAZER, SON & MACKENZIE'S SHOWROOMS, 32, ABINGTON STREET, AND HAVE YOUR RECORDS AUTOGRAPHED BY ALBERT SANDLER.”
Dave Harwood
20 Feb 2024 at 06:01
I found this advert in the 'Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph' dated 4th August 1966:
“A. MACKENZIE 4-6 FISH STREET, NORTHAMPTON Tel. 37638 (formerly Fraser, Son and MacKenzie Ltd.) for the latest - Televisions : Radio : Radiograms : Records : Record Players : Music : Tape Recorders plus of course Pianos : Organs : Guitars and Everything Musical.”
... which confirms Bohdan Hynda's memory of it also being in Fish Street, Northampton in the 1960's, opposite the Neptune Restaurant, which was located at 7 Fish Street, Northampton.

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32 Abington Street NN1 2AJ Northampton / Northamptonshire
4-6 Fish Street NN1 2AA Northampton / Northamptonshire
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