Hurley

Name: kings jones
Comment: I can remember buying records there, I think the first one I bought was a Beatles record; can't remember the A side but the B side was I Am The Walrus. 1967, I was 10.
(4 July 2017)

Name: Gary Bigg
Comment: I remember the record shop. Back in the late 1960s I used to stay in Pontypridd as my Mum's brother Derrick and his wife Iris lived there. Iris worked in the record shop and Derrick worked in Hodges, the menswear shop. Both shops have gone now and so have my Aunt and Uncle. I remember Iris saying that on occasion Tom Jones had been in the shop. I bought a few records in the shop over the period up to 1974 when I became 16. Great memories of Ponty. I visited about 4 years ago. They lived in Berw Road. Contact me if you remember either of them.
(2022)

Comments

Dave Harwood

23 Oct 2023 at 08:42

I found an advert in the ‘Pontypridd Observer’ dated 5th June 1969: “RECORDS - FOR ALL THE LATEST RECORDS, POPS, JAZZ (MODERN, TRAD, etc.), CLASSICS, WELSH CHOIRS, ORCHESTRAL, call at HURLEY’S RECORD BAR, 10 TAFF STREET, PONTYPRIDD (near Fountain).”

Dave Harwood

06 Oct 2024 at 10:54

I found this piece in the 'Pontypridd Observer' dated 8th May 1981: “... It was Vera and Evelyn's mother, Rose Ellen Hurley, who opened the shop in the 1930's. The two sisters run the shop with their nephew Mark, who takes care of the record sales. Discs were relatively new to Hurley’s, said Evelyn, but the toy shop must be one of the oldest stores in Pontypridd!”
... and this advert in the 'Pontypridd Observer' dated 27th June 1975:
“HURLEY'S RECORD BAR 10 TAFF STREET, PONTYPRIDD Tel: 405931; PORTH RECORD SHOP 48 HANNAH STREET PORTH. THE LATEST RECORDS: FOLK, CHOIRS, ETC. TOP TEN in stock.”