Syd's like most and in my later years , late 80s / early 90s dance from a place at the top deck of prinny quay , was just a little unit , sold white label records If I needed something special , Jumbo records in Leeds
My friends Dad used to own Normans, our band practised in the stock room upstairs, we spent more time digging through the crates up there than actually playing.
As someone born in the mid 90s, I feel my vinyl-buying is much different to most who are going to post on this thread. I buy mine at a combination of HMV, Spin-it and on the internet. Depends on where I find that specific piece cheapest.
You bought your records from ebay back then? You never cease to amaze me Tickles Syd Scarboroughs was my usual haunt. The place was magical to me. I'll never forget wanting the theme from the Pink Panther (I just loved it and still do). Now I only went in there with the premise of asking if they could order it for me. Hi mate, I know it sounds daft and that, but could you get me the pink panther theme by Henry Mancini? Without even raising an eyebrow and in one swift movement, he reached straight down to a shelf somewhere around his knee area and passed me the 45. I still have that record and it's not for sale at any price. Great thread Stan
Syd Scarborough, top deck for tapes, ground for vinyl and underground for picture discs and limited edition stuff. Got my Market Square Heros 12' picture disc there, still have a load of vinyl in the loft that I should really get rid of.
Gough and Davys or Sid Scarborough First record ..my sister bought me was. Little white bull.....tommy steele Lol First record i bought ....Montego Bay...Bobby Bloom
That very same record, was the first one my Dad brought home, along with our first record player in a suitcase. A Dansette? We were so thrilled.
Are you talking about when it was on Anlaby Road (after Sheridan's) 'cos he was on Prinny before that (which was where he was when I sold him all my reggae, 20 years ago) I think he was in Cott Centre, before that?
First 45 that I bought was 'Hey Girl Don't Bother Me' by The Tams, bought it from Syd Scarborough for my sisters 18th, I was 12 at the time. She wasn't happy, reckoned I'd only bought it 'cos I liked it. Ungrateful ****er.
Bought Dylans Blonde on Blonde double LP from that establishment and went around the corner to the afternoon 'disco' in Centre Bar and the DJ played Rainy Day Women from Blonde on Blonde. Maxwell Daniels on Beverley Road opposite the Baths was my main supplier of second hand records. And the second hand stall on Hull's outdoor market when it was in the Old Town, ex-Juke Box records with plastic middles. I actually bought 'Lighthouse' second hand record stall in the indoor market some years ago, the fore runner of the much more successful 'Spin It' stall that is still there today. I/we bought and sold vinyl but the timing couldn't have been worse because CD's were about to replace them. I had a student type working on the stall a couple of days a week and he was buying all his mates old LP's off them for ridiculously high prices. We ended upw ith hundreds of Val Doonican, Perry Como, and 'Hits from the Shows' LP's. Selling second hand records for a living isn't as easy as it sounds.
Clevelands , Syd's ,DiscDiscovery on spring bank and a small stall in the "atCost" place on NewlandAve , there was also a stall under Romeos behind BHS . There was also a decent place where the union mash up place is now on prinny ave - it was one of the first shops on the right as you godown prinny ave - he had a section for rap music with a cardboard sign saying "CRAP" took my money tho One place I've never bought at is the one in the indoor market ,
Wasn't John Sheridans involved in a scam to find The Gaul ? He collected public money for the search and never left his front room ( which happened to be on Beverley road, near Queens Road junction)
