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Boots on Grange Rd also had a record department btw.

If memory serves me , Skeletons second shop was the old Gas Showrooms, which is now the Burger Kebab House on the corner opposite the old Post Office.



That's probably the one I bought the Lou Reed 12" from but the original posters question is regarding 1974 and I'm not sure Rox Records existed then.

Am I still the only person on the Wirral who remembers Reaction Records in New Brighton? !!!!

no i remember both shops one was opposite the empress club,then they moved to the corner of victoria road and windsor street,this shop was the rialto cafe and chip shop,owned by the greek christoforo family,also at some time it was a fishing tackle shop.

No. I remember it well. Still got the first LP I bought there; Olias Of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson. My mate and I went along on our bikes one Sunday afternoon in the early 80s when Sunday opening was still rare. It moved over to the top of Hardman St, Liverpool in the early 90s but sadly didn't last long.

Now, if you want to talk about obscure Wirral record shops, how about Zephyr Records. I never went there but it was located at Trafalgar Rd, Wallasey circa the late 1970s. It was run by a hippy bloke called Trev Hughes who had connections with Hawkwind and is still knocking around the record fairs I believe.

There was a great record shop in the centre of Chester in the early 1960s - I forget exactly where, or what it was called. If you wanted to hear a record they gave it to you and you took it to a booth to play it.

The thing was, the booth was downstairs and as you walked back up after playing it, the door to the street was right opposite the top of the stairs and the door couldn't be seen from the counter.

Oh, the number of times I made a mistake by leaving the shop and forgetting to return the record.

I remeber Zephyr Records - bought a Bowie bootleg there in '77 ,
Trevor Hughes still lives in Wallasey - often see him in Psychomock in Liscard .
Spent many a Sunday afternoon in Reaction Records - I must have bought hundreds of albums there (& sold quite a few as well !).

I bought my first bootleg LP (Elvis Presley's "I Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star") in a small record shop near the university in Liverpool. I'm almost sure it was called Virgin Records but it had nothing to do with the Virgin chain with which we are all so familiar today.

That would have been in 1972.