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Name: Dave Harwood
Comment: I used to browse the record racks (downstairs) in my lunch break from Croydon College in 1966 and bought the first two Lovin' Spoonful albums there. Not sure when it closed.

​Phone book search results for ‘Record Greetings’ at 77 George Street, Croydon showed it was open from 1961 to at least 1983 (online records only go up to 1984).

Name: Jeremy Isaac
Comment: Often dropped in here while at Croydon College. He always had a huge stock of deleted LPs (sleeves snipped or pierced), and I remember buying several jazz albums and a Mamas & Papas platter there.
(2022)

Dave Harwood
11 Jun 2023 at 08:57
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJVZ0lF-9fQ shows a bus journey from an art shop in St. George's Walk, Croydon up George Street towards East Croydon, passing 'Record Greetings' on the way.
Dave Harwood
27 Jul 2023 at 07:58
A search of the British Newspaper Archive website found an article about the opening of Record Greetings:
GREETINGS - TO NEW CROYDON SHOP VENTURE
ONE of London's largest greeting cards and gramophone record shops has opened at 77 George Street - Croydon's main shopping area. Known as the Record Greetings Shop, it is a new venture by 33-year-old Mr. Graham Noakes, managing director of a city printing firm. The shop offers a range of greetings cards to suit everybody's tastes, and in addition, the basement has been made into a gramophone record shop, with two acoustic booths and three audition rooms.
(Croydon Times, Friday 23rd June 1961)

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77 George Street CR0 1LD Croydon / Surrey
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