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Judy Atkinson… Remember it well. It had a section for “underground ” music
Chris Baker… Judy, Groovy Baby! (Or Booby Gravy, as usual kids used to say!)
Stuart Moir… Was there a disc jockey in Queens Road, I’m sure it was opposite Barclays bank
Mick O’Dowd… Yes there was right up until it closed. At one time he had one further up Queens Road nearly opposite Jack London’s Record Shop.
Paul Cullen… Yes there was, I think that it had three booths you could listen to music
Harry Randall… Paul, correct Alan had 3 altogether The first one Disc Jockey +1 was up Queens rd but also had one in old town and one in Kings rd St. Leonard’s 2 and 3 later just the one in Queens rd nearer the centre of town
Chris Baker… Harry, Alan Jensen and his partner (his name escapes me now!), who used to run the Disc Jockey in the High Street were a great help to my Mum, Brenda when she started writing Lyrics. She ended up collaborating with Wout Steenhuis, a brilliant Dutch multi-instrumentalist who lived in Broadstairs and did a lot of multi-track recording in the early 60s and 70s.
Alan Esdaile… Chris, you’re probably thinking of Johnny Hodgson. He was the original owner and Alan worked there and eventually bought him out.
Harry Randall… Chris, knew Alan when he first started out he lived in Battle Road above sweet shop opposite Jones Fish and Chip shop both long gone now
John Gale… My dad Tony , was a living in The Croft as a teenager in the mid to late 50s . He loved that.shop and bought his first drum kit from there .
Trevor Spears… It was on the same side as Jack London’s a little further up the road!
Michael Armitage… Who was the chap, who used to work in the Queens Road shop, then went on his own, just above M&S, further up the road? Lovely man – my dad spent a fortune with him, and I bought ‘The Savage’ by The Shadows there, while dad was buying Peer Gynt! I did buy my first ever guitar at the Disc Jockey though – I think it was £6.00, but better than the £4.00 one… And, in the early seventies, just after we were married and moved to a flat in Priory Road, I wanted to buy, ‘I know what I like in your wardrobe’ (Genesis). as a single, and the assistant patiently explained that it was only available on an album ‘Selling England by the pound’! I couldn’t afford £3.50 then…
Alan Esdaile… I think your thinking of Jack London, Michael, as Trevor just mentioned.
Liane Carroll… So lovely. I can’t remember what year it closed. Does anybody know? X
Who was the chap, who used to work in the Queens Road shop, then went on his own, just above M&S, further up the road?
Lovely man – my dad spent a fortune with him, and I bought ‘The Savage’ by The Shadows there, while dad was buying Peer Gynt!
I did buy my first ever guitar at the Disc Jockey though – I think it was £6.00, but better than the £4.00 one… And, in the early seventies, just after we were married and moved to a flat in Priory Road, I wanted to buy, ‘I know what I like in your wardrobe’ (Genesis). as a single, and the assistant patiently explained that it was only available on an album ‘Selling England by the pound’!
I couldn’t afford £3.50 then…