Comments
Name: Dave Dempsey
Comment: Nicholson's Music Centre was a classical record shop with a musical instrument section upstairs. I worked there between 1968 and 1973. The owner was Joseph Henry Harper Nicholson, himself an accomplished pianist. He bought the business from Bernard Dean who had a shop in Scarborough. The business was initially on Montpellier Parade and moved to Parliament Street in the early sixties. It eventually closed when Joe retired and Terri Connors bought the business and set up Adagio Records in Westminster Arcade.
Name: Ian Hines
Comment: Best time of my life... working there from 1952 till my family stupidly sold our Hotel Inverclyde and moved to London... ugh.
Joe was a great pal - not boss - and the young lass who worked there too... GREAT TIMES.
(2022)
“Nicholson's Music Centre. WITH a wealth of experience in Harrogate stretching back to 1953 when Nicholson's music centre first appeared in Montpellier Parade, and with proprietor Joseph Nicholson still very much at the helm of the shop in Cheltenham Crescent, you would find it hard to find a company better qualified to talk music than this!”