Portobello Beat - Exhibition Celebrating North Kensington’s Pioneering Record Shops

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This looks like a labour of love , full of great memories when record shops where plentiful and full of great finds . 

Mid to late 7t's.    Train from Banbury to Paddington.     Saturdays.
U/G to Ladbroke Grove (dirt cheap thanx to Red Ken & GLC)
Under the A40 flyover loads of record sellers with great Soul content + Demo's.
(I was a UK collector at the time so cannot comment on Imports)
Notting Hill next - again loads of record shops - masses of Soul albums everywhere.
Portobello Road.    Again loads of stalls and shops.  
Somewhere along that road off to the right - down this road there was a cafe on the right.
BUT at the back of it was a record shop - when shut had big dark boards all across it.
Masses of rare stuff here.     T.M.G. R/W and G/W demo's.   Rare issues.
Statesides, Orioles.    Real good UK Soul.
If I remember correctly across the road another shop with masses of Soul albums.
Later on in the 8t's - a shop called VINYL ?    (think they advertised in Record Collector at that time?)
They had loads of brown card boxes full of rare Soul.
Again loads of TMG R/W and G/W demo's.   Rare Orioles.
A big box of UK SUE - most in orig sleeves.

Very happy days of proper record collecting "out of town" that have sadly long gone now.
But great memories that will never leave.