Currently working in Bradford. I was early yesterday so thought I'd wander round John Street Market and have a nostalgia trip..No matter how hard I tried and wished as I turned the corner...the stall wasnt there anymore!! Thats my faith in all prayers and positive thought principles out the window..I really wished hard as well!

Currently working in Bradford. I was early yesterday so thought I'd wander round John Street Market and have a nostalgia trip..No matter how hard I tried and wished as I turned the corner...the stall wasnt there anymore!! Thats my faith in all prayers and positive thought principles out the window..I really wished hard as well!

You and hundreds of others Pete. Those really were the days ay? Nip into Bradford for a couple of hours and come back with handfuls of brilliant records which are pretty much all worth hundreds of times what we paid for 'em back then. Can't believe we were so lucky really......

Ian D

I know..it was a pretty strange experience really. No matter when you went there was always somebody you knew there..yourself, Kegsy, Pat Brady..I remember coming away with a copy of the Triumphs on Verve..took it down the Central that same night and Kim Dent dropped it and broke it! No matter, I'll go and get another on Monday!!!

I know..it was a pretty strange experience really. No matter when you went there was always somebody you knew there..yourself, Kegsy, Pat Brady..I remember coming away with a copy of the Triumphs on Verve..took it down the Central that same night and Kim Dent dropped it and broke it! No matter, I'll go and get another on Monday!!!

Kim Dent, now he was a lunatic

Had some great finds

Yeah there and the stall in the Merrion Market in Leeds. Used to get loads from there, all the 'Verve' stuff. Was it called 'Geroles' or was that only in Domestic Street, Holbeck? where I found 6 copies of the 'Shakers - One wonderful moment' for 20p each and sold them for £20 each at the 'Torch' on the same night, £20 then being the equivalent of what? £100-150 now?

Ah Good daze! :-)

Think this applied at the time .....

though don't think the record company had Bradford Market in mind when they placed this ad ....

Hi Pete do you remember Allans records in eccleshill run by Ivor Allan the coloured guy? our Rob and i used to go there often, also used to go to Ralphs records in Deansgate manchester. Even used to get records from Kingsley Harrison a west indian guy who used to have a record shop in fartown Huddersfield,mainly dealt in reggae but also did a few soul sounds.He used to dj in Harrogate and Scarboro. Regards Fred

Edited September 10, 201212 yr by Mr Fred

ralphs records was on corporation st next to victoria station...

ralphs records was on corporation st next to victoria station...

Hi Jim,

Ralph's had a second shop on deansgate,pretty certain I used to go in there in the 70's

Hi Jim,

Ralph's had a second shop on deansgate,pretty certain I used to go in there in the 70's

hiya mick, i remember barrys record rendevouz which was off deansgate, they had all the latest pressings in the window, a kidcalled tommy worked in there who was clued up.

hiya mick, i remember barrys record rendevouz which was off deansgate, they had all the latest pressings in the window, a kidcalled tommy worked in there who was clued up.

Don't recall Barry's,there was rare records and hime & addison on John Dalton Street

Hi Pete do you remember Allans records in eccleshill run by Ivor Allan the coloured guy? our Rob and i used to go there often, also used to go to Ralphs records in Deansgate manchester. Even used to get records from Kingsley Harrison a west indian guy who used to have a record shop in fartown Huddersfield,mainly dealt in reggae but also did a few soul sounds.He used to dj in Harrogate and Scarboro. Regards Fred

Must have been back in the 17th Century - or did you mean to say Black, Afro-British or Afro-Caribbean?

Edited September 10, 201212 yr by Jhsoulnotts

Don't recall Barry's,there was rare records and hime & addison on John Dalton Street

yes mate, hime and addison was advertised in blues and soul as barrys record rendevouz,, then they moved to a newer shop just round the corner.

ralphs records was on corporation st next to victoria station...

Sorry it was in the 70's and it was next to victoria station, regards

Must have been back in the 17th Century - or did you mean to say Black, Afro-British or Afro-Caribbean?

Was back in the 70's and both were black , i think both originated from the West Indies as we used to call them now better known as the caribbean. regards

Edited September 10, 201212 yr by Mr Fred