Landau Radio Ltd

Name: Jon Diamond
Comment: I worked there in the 1970s and early 1980s and would love to hear from anyone who was there - jon_diamond@msn.com.
(8 July 2014)

Name: Chris Hampton
Comment: Any pictures of the inside of this shop in the 1960s? I was a teenager then and bought all my records from here. Historical making sounds!
(24 November 2013)

Name: Ben's Collectors Records
Comment: Landaus of Sutton stickers keep turning up on records in my shop , this place must have been a major player in the early 1960s!
(10 January 2013)

Name: Michael Cohen
Comment: This was my grandparents' shop.
(6 May 2012)

Name: Chris Hampton
Comment: It certainly was a major player. That's where I bought my first record at 12 years old, She Loves You - the Beatles! Yes and I remember the sticker on every record. Save albums. Sadly I lost my priceless record collection when I left it in storage and came to America. but hey, now with the internet you can find anything!
(26 November 2015)

Name: Mike Chapman
Comment: I used to live in Rosehill Gardens and obtained all my vinyl there from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s.

When did it actually get sold to HMV? I remember there used to to be a middle-aged lady called Mrs Davis (who as a youngster seemed too old to be working in a record shop!) but she was brilliant and her knowledge and helpfulness was incredible.

I believe Gerry Landau owned the shop. Great memories.
(April 2016)

Name: Elliot Baxendale
Comment: I love the idea that the records that brought so much joy and inspiration are still in circulation. Giving the same feeling as when released to those of a different generation.
(9 November 2016)

Name: Derek Hanlon
Comment: When I worked there in 1960-1962, I was in the service department with Ray Tuck, Alan Stroud, and Robin (Connaway I think). Two of the girls in the shop were Ursula and Elspeth. Vic and Clara Landau owned and ran the shop with Gerald who was, I think, their son-in-law. Opposite Landau's was a coffee shop selling fantastic Italian ice cream.
(2018)

Name: Mike Salter
Comment: At the age of 15 I was well into the music of the time and I have a suitcase full of 45s with the Landau's sticker on with the number on the records corresponding with the sleeves. So many happy times asking the staff to play a particular track and going into a booth and listening over and over again. That was usually from an LP. I was living in Cheam at the time (1960) and going to Chatsworth Road School. I am obviously talking about the Sutton Store.
(2019)

Name: Will Swales
Comment: I bought a record at a car boot sale at the weekend with a Landau sticker on the back. It was The Oscar Peterson Trio - The Trio: Live From Chicago and the inscription on the sticker reads 'LANDAU RADIO ltd. 174, HIGH STREET, SUTTON, SURREY. Tel: Vigilant. 0084'.

I now actually live in Sutton near the station, and would love to know where this shop used to reside, and what's there now.
(2019)

Name: Peter Goodwin
Comment: I went there every Saturday morning in the 1960s. I still have the vinyl bought from there with their sticker.
(2020)

Name: Nigel Hawkes
Comment: Wow - another trip down Memory Lane! Having taken (late) retirement last year I've found time to play a lot of my now much-reduced LP collection and - yes - the Landau's sticker is on many.

Early 1960s, as a Banstead schoolboy, I started with The Great Western TV Themes by Johnny Gregory, then The Beatles of course, then I got into film music - specifically Elmer Bernstein - those lovely United Artists LP covers.
(2021)

Name: Allan Groombridge
Comment: My chums and I used to visit Landau's and listen to records in the little booths on the left-hand side. We got into (old style) R&B: Yardbirds, Alexis Korner, Cyril Davies, etc.. Heard Cream playing Spoonful from the Wheels of Fire album there for the first time. An epiphany! I welled up with the emotion. Like a pair of great gates had opened up to reveal a masterpiece in a new musical gallery. I still listen to it today and get lost in it each time I do! And yes the ice cream shop opposite sold the best ice cream I have ever tasted. The guy was Italian, and I believe the cafe was called The Regent, or something like that. I can see the guy's face now. I'm 74 now and have got another band together in Aylsham Norfolk.
Cheers!
​(2022)