Stanton’s Music Shop was originally opened on 10 Castle Street, Dudley, by James Stanton in 1895. By the 1950s, the shop was in the hands of his daughter-in-law Florence, her daughter Audrey Howarth, and a managing director, Frederick Nash. In the late 1950s, much of Castle Street was demolished for Dudley’s town center redevelopment and Stanton’s Georgian building was replaced by a modern flagship store.
The shop sold a range of musical instruments, including their traditional pianos, along with electric organs and electric guitars. They moved on from gramophones to sell radiograms, radios, televisions and record players, as well as the records to play on them. Customers could listen to the records in special booths before buying.
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