Rediffusion

Name: Russell Smith
Comment: The [Lincoln] Rediffusion Shop was on the corner of Tentercroft Street and the High Street near the bus station and hence was a good stopping-off place before heading home. It was like Spouges and sold electrical goods in the front and records at the back. It was quite atmospheric and a definite hark back to the past. If memory serves it was the last shop in Lincoln to have working listening booths. It had a great bargain bin, which again if memory serves was a roundular in the middle of the shop. I'm not sure when it closed - it was still there in the late 1970s as I recall picking up Wreckless Eric 10" on brown vinyl there. One abiding memory is buying the Kinks single Apeman from the aforementioned bargain bin.

Name: Paul Devereux
Comment: I bought my first Gordon Lightfoot album from this shop [Lincoln]. I remember looking enviously at The History of Motown box set up on a high shelf and thinking how many weeks' wages I would need to buy it. I never owned it.
(17 December 2013)

Name: Ian Mitchell
Comment: Yes, I ran a mobile disco in the 1970s and bought all my records from there [Lincoln] every Saturday.
(12 August 2013)

Name: stevenandgeoff
Comment: Rediffusion in Nottingham was the place I bought my first LP at the age of 17 in 1959 - it was Connie Francis Sings Rock & Roll Million Sellers. Although not a great LP it got plenty of play.

Being a gay teenager in a homophobic world, I found this basement store a special place to visit and remember listening to a reissue of Don't Smoke In Bed by Peggy Lee and returning to the centre of Nottingham clutching the EP and knowing that I was different in a straight world.

Name: Richard Steele
Comment: There was a Rediffusion at the bottom of The Moor [Sheffield] which had a pretty good stock of folk and early prog and leftfield (for the time) albums (only really remember this one because I used to fancy the girl who worked there!).