Name: Roger Cook Comment: WH Smith when it was on the junction of Boscawen Street and Lower Lemon Street had in the 1960s a record department in their basement.
Name: Thelma Nicholls Comment: Remember when WH Smith was in the old shop at the bottom of Lemon Street/Boscawen Street - their record department was in the basement with little record listening booths with headphones.
Name: Jeremy Cocks Comment: I think I bought my first vinyl albums in John Menzies closing down sale back in the mid 1970s. WH Smith in Truro was the most popular place in the 1980s though, where my late aunt, Marjorie Palmer, was store manager for a time, and correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they move from Lemon Street to Victoria Square where Fosters menswear used to be and then on to Pydar Street in the 1980s? Used to buy some music books in Minns Music, Kenwyn Street where Wensleigh Palmer was the manager and a not-so-well-known vinyl record shop that opened in 1986 right behind Boots the Chemist in Pydar Street that you could access via their back door on the walkway to the multi-storey carpark. In fact Boots used to sell records and tapes back in the 1980s! Bought my first rock album in Saffron back in early 1983, Queen II, with the £5 record token I won on Duncan Warren of Radio Cornwall's Countdown Music Match... memories.
Name: Pete Willis Comment: Grew up buying my records in the market from Acorn Records and then Saffron Records in Victoria Square. I worked in the WH Smith record department back in 1984. So upset was I that we no longer had an independent record shop in Truro I had to start one myself, Music Nostalgia, and have been in the Pannier Market since 2008.
Name: Roger Cook
Comment: WH Smith when it was on the junction of Boscawen Street and Lower Lemon Street had in the 1960s a record department in their basement.
Name: Thelma Nicholls
Comment: Remember when WH Smith was in the old shop at the bottom of Lemon Street/Boscawen Street - their record department was in the basement with little record listening booths with headphones.
Name: Jeremy Cocks
Comment: I think I bought my first vinyl albums in John Menzies closing down sale back in the mid 1970s. WH Smith in Truro was the most popular place in the 1980s though, where my late aunt, Marjorie Palmer, was store manager for a time, and correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they move from Lemon Street to Victoria Square where Fosters menswear used to be and then on to Pydar Street in the 1980s? Used to buy some music books in Minns Music, Kenwyn Street where Wensleigh Palmer was the manager and a not-so-well-known vinyl record shop that opened in 1986 right behind Boots the Chemist in Pydar Street that you could access via their back door on the walkway to the multi-storey carpark. In fact Boots used to sell records and tapes back in the 1980s! Bought my first rock album in Saffron back in early 1983, Queen II, with the £5 record token I won on Duncan Warren of Radio Cornwall's Countdown Music Match... memories.
Name: Pete Willis
Comment: Grew up buying my records in the market from Acorn Records and then Saffron Records in Victoria Square. I worked in the WH Smith record department back in 1984. So upset was I that we no longer had an independent record shop in Truro I had to start one myself, Music Nostalgia, and have been in the Pannier Market since 2008.