Syd Booth

In the 1960s the shop on Queen Street was the place to go for records. As a young lad I loved going in there with my pocket money and buying the latest chart hits. Later when I was a mobile DJ I spent many hours upstairs in the smaller store on Westgate buying Northern Soul imports. Great times. Later on I went to work for Prides at Newark and eventually had my own store, Diskits in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

I found this advert in the 'Daily News (London)' dated 8th October 1958: “SYD. BOOTH LTD., 11 QUEEN STREET, MANSFIELD, NOTTS. RECORDS & INSTRUMENTS.”