Goodness Records: Old phone directory entries
1974 Croydon:
- 1338 London Road
- 195 Streatham High Road
1976 Croydon:
- 1338 London Road
- 195 Streatham High Road
1977 Croydon:
- 1338 London Road
- 195 Streatham High Road
- 13 Crown Hill, Croydon
- 16 Godstone Road, Caterham
- 333c Limpsfield Road, South Croydon
1978 Bromley/Orpington:
- 333c Limpsfield Road, South Croydon
1979 Croydon:
- 1338 London Road
- 16 Godstone Road, Caterham
1981 Croydon:
- 1338 London Road
- 16 Godstone Road, Caterham
Comments
Comment: I remember buying records in there around 1994. Still trying to find a pic of T-Shirts Galore which was just round the corner.
Name: Mark Griffiths
Comment: There were other branches too at Streatham and (I think) Norbury. The Streatham shop was good for punk and new wave and in some quite keen competition with Cloakes who were just up the road. Remember being in there one cold Saturday afternoon and seeing the Pistols' Spunk bootleg on the deck.
(15 May 2015)
Name: Chris White
Comment: I was a store manager for Goodness between 1976 and 1978 managing stores in Caterham, Streatham, Croydon (Surrey Street market) and, for the majority of the time, Wimbledon... just close to the underground station.
(2020)
“I was at school south of London in Caterham in the late ’70s and used to hang out in Goodness Records each afternoon spending all my paper round money there. I’d seen ‘The Daleks’ sprayed on a wall in the town and got chatting to Eddie one day, they were looking for a drummer – The general consensus locally was that he was a great songwriter. I think the band name came from the end of Remote Control by the Clash – ‘gonna be a Dalek… I obey!’ There was quite a few line-up changes before the record, it was me that suggested Gaz as a front man. He’d just been expelled from my school for dying his hair and looked the part… yellow creepers to boot! It was him that did the artwork for the record sleeve and got all our mates to get photo booth pictures done. We all made the pilgrimage to Broadcasting House at the BBC to take John Peel a copy. Gaz spoke to him from the phone on reception (while he was in the middle of a show). I only heard one side of the conversation but it went something like ‘It’s Gaz from the Daleks from Croydon, we’ve brought you our record to play… it’s fuckin’ brilliant!’” – Woodie Taylor 2021
Name: John Kirk
Comment: I remember the shop on Sternhold Avenue by Streatham Hill station, it was still trading through the very early punk days but I’m not sure if it closed around 1978. It was always outdone by Goodness Records on Streatham High Road down the dip from St Leonard’s church and L&H Cloake also near St Leonard’s church on the other side of the road. It’s amazing to think that three record shops could trade in such a short space not to mention record sections in Woolworths and WH Smith’s.
(2020)
Name: post utility
Comment: There was also a Goodness Records branch on Wimbledon Bridge, bottom of the hill where the main road goes over the station. Too many hours there...
(2021)
Name: Gary M
Comment: I used to shop at Goodness records around 1992/93 when Breakbeat Hardcore/Rave music was flying out the door, the older lady (was it Lindsey?) and the other guy (Richard?) really knew their stuff and would do their best to get me the hard-to-find tunes, never tried to palm me off with any shite, I loved it in there, was a great way to spend your Saturday mornings, shame the youth of today don't get to experience that sort of thing now.
(2023)
https://www.instagram.com/powerfmdublin/p/BpuWNsknL7w/?hl=en
https://www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/view-item?i=162169&WINID=1736268135160
https://damagedgoods.co.uk/bands/the-daleks/
“I was at school south of London in Caterham in the late ’70s and used to hang out in Goodness Records each afternoon spending all my paper round money there..."