Just been thinking about the old Accy that I knew in the early sixties. There was a Record shop opened on Blackburn road about 1963/1964. I think it was Mary,s but maybe wrong. There was an area down stairs where you listened to records. I used to know a young lass who worked there. Linda Wilkinson. The manager was a young guy. Bit of a lad with some kind of fast car. Cant remember his name but he was ok. Used to have parties late at night in the area downstairs and then this guy and myself with a couple of gals used to go to Manchester somewhere. I think this guy got killed in a car crash. Dont know if this shop is still there or what because I left in 1968. Dont know what happened to Linda, she was a nice girl went out with her for a while. Also remember some time in 62, waiting for the last bus with a young lady, think she was called (Barbara Slack). we were on Blackburn road one evening when there was a few explosions and the manhole covers on the pavements blew off. This was between the Railway pub and the town center. Never found out what caused it though.
Music Shop
- Thread starter Mog
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Marys Music was on blackburn rd, shopped there many a time loved it 
Last time i went was the very early 90's
Last time i went was the very early 90's 
Marys Music was on blackburn rd, shopped there many a time loved it
I can only remember it on Whalley Rd.
Mary's Music was originally on Blackburn Road underneath Mort's. Moved to Whalley Road around 1963. Mog, the shop you might be thinking of may be Tony's, one block further away from town, opposite the bottom of Paxton Street.
I can only remember it on Whalley Rd.
Yeh whalley road i mean ............doh
i just used to go by radar lol
Yes come to think of it. Tony,s was the name of the shop. Thats the trouble when you get old timer,s you keep forgeting things. Wonder if the guy I was refering to was called Tony.!!!
Went to Blackburn Tech with a girl called Linda Wilkinson, she was from Accy, did a bakery course together, 1965 -66, a pretty blond girl, very outgoing, Got a photo somewhere.
on the corner of blackburn road and abbey street was disc&tape but iv always known mary's music to be on walley road although it was once where the tattoo place is and then moved up a few doors on the same block to smaller premisis.
didnt there used to be a record shop next to the joke shop under the railway arches on blackburn road ?
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didnt there used to be a record shop next to the joke shop under the railway arches on blackburn road ?
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Alan did she mate with a girl called Yvonne Howarth and a Lynn somebody?
That name rings a bell Susan, Yvonne Howarth,
the place that Marys Music moved to was originally a record shop called Marshalls Used Records,they than moved to the high street in rishton next to the old methodist school,the record shop under the arches next to the joke shop was called TRAX,Disc and Tape was at the corner off abbey street and Townsends was and still is in queen st Gt harwood,
I remember Mary's being there too Wyn, don't remember the other one though
Alan,you mention Townsends in Queen St Gt Harwood.I bought my first records there Swedish Rhapsody Mantovani and Cloud Lucky Seven Guy Mitchell back in 1953 after walking over the fields from Clayton le Moors
1953? Are you sure about the year? I thought the store opened sometime in either the 80s or 90s. I have lived in Harwood all my life (born 1954) and I don't remember it being there that far back. I used to buy my records at either Mary's or Reidy's in Blackburn.
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It might have not been called that. It was opposite the Mercer Hall
Maybe I should have gone to Specsavers!