Chapple walk music store

[stephen 7]

Does anyone remember going downstairs to buy singles and lp.s you went in to a booth resembling a phone box and put on a pair of headphones to listen to the single you wanted to buy

[athy]

The shop I remember in Chapel Walk was "Philip Cann - The Music Man", but I think that the records and listening booths were on the ground floor. Quite a few shops in the '60s had those listening booths - I think Wilson Peck's did too.

[soft ayperth]

The shop I remember in Chapel Walk was "Philip Cann - The Music Man", but I think that the records and listening booths were on the ground floor. Quite a few shops in the '60s had those listening booths - I think Wilson Peck's did too.

 

They were indeed. Spent a lot of time in those booths. Purportedly, they were to allow previewing a record before you bought it. But, many people, myself included, had no intention of buying it. Just wanted to listen to the song. Imagine something like that catching on nowadays?

[fatrajah]

As I remember it, when you reached the bottom of the stairs, there was a counter at the far end of the room with listening booths to the right & maybe to the left. I last went there in 1966 so I may have remembered wrongly.

[stpetre]

As I remember it, when you reached the bottom of the stairs, there was a counter at the far end of the room with listening booths to the right & maybe to the left. I last went there in 1966 so I may have remembered wrongly.

 

Yes, that's how I remember Cann's. Wilson Peck's listening booths were on the ground floor.

[windswept]

I remember going with a girl called Elaine in our dinner hour to listen to the new Temptations record,Ain't too proud to beg.Wow what a song still sounds great 50 yrs later

[bazjea]

The Philp Canns record shop I remember was at the top of Dixon Lane in the 50s The listening Booths were down the stairs.It was still on Dixon Lane in the

early 70s.

I think Vallances bought them out and they moved to Chapel Walk

 

Photo link below

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02880&pos=3&action=zoom&id=44142

[stpetre]

The Philp Canns record shop I remember was at the top of Dixon Lane in the 50s The listening Booths were down the stairs.It was still on Dixon Lane in the

early 70s.

I think Vallances bought them out and they moved to Chapel Walk

 

Photo link below

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02880&pos=3&action=zoom&id=44142

 

As you can see in the photo the Dixon Lane store is closed and empty. I'm sure Cann's had one store on Chapel Walk in early 1962, as I bought some thing for school there.

Edited March 15, 2017 by stpetre
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[stephen 7]

As I remember it, when you reached the bottom of the stairs, there was a counter at the far end of the room with listening booths to the right & maybe to the left. I last went there in 1966 so I may have remembered wrongly.

 

Yes spot on there was just the row on the right looking towards the counter

[jackanne]

My girlfriend,now wife worked at canns,on chapel walk in1965.