Maxwell

Do you remember where you first used to buy records?
Yeah, in Woking. There were two shops, one called Maxwell’s and one called Aerco. I am old enough to remember the listening booths. They had the Top 10 or maybe Top 20 laid out in a rack behind the counter, and all the racks of albums. We used to go in there after school and keep playing different records until the got fucked off and kicked us out. Magical places, really.

Paul Weller By Michael Bonner10th October 2014

At the foot of Wimbledon Hill was a very posh music shop called Maxwells - instruments, everything. Had separate listening booths.
They would put anything on for you from stock or ordered - probably from the influence of 'THE GRAMOPHONE" (mainly classical LPs reviewed but some jazz). They were very good and did not seem to mind if you didn't buy the LP you had heard! We schoolkids used it a lot! Comment: Edward Black
(Apr 17, 2013) MAXWELL'S said:There was also a branch in Clarence Street Kingston on Thames in the early/middle 1950s. Ground floor pianos and all musical instruments. sheet music etc, first floor sold 78 records. I bought some of my first jazz & blues records there. Mick Brocking
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I worked upstairs in the Clarence Street, kingston on Thames shop in the mid to late '60s. As well as records (which you could listen to in the booths)They also sold record players and radios/radiograms upstairs, downstairs was pianos, accordions, violins, etc. I'll be honest... it was one of the worst places I've ever worked in! The management thought they were rather more important than the rest of us!
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Irene Burton
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