At the time, I was living in Bournemouth and working contentedly as a bus driver, which left me plenty of free time to trawl the local junk shops at least two or three times a week. I could continue on the buses, while accumulating interesting old records and hopefully selling them at a profit via adverts in Record Mart and elsewhere.
NB: At this time, record collecting was in its infancy, especially collecting 7” records.… Read more…→

I commenced collecting records seriously soon after I moved to Bournemouth in May 1968.
There were more than a dozen junk shops in and round Bournemouth at that time, most of these dealt in ‘house-clearance stuff and this often included records. As a consequence most of these shops carried a small selection of secondhand records, mainly 45s, but also some 78s and a few LPs.
Used 7” records at that time tended to cost anything from one shilling(5p) to one shilling & sixpence (seven & a half pence).… Read more…→