Sunday, February 15, 2015

Poseurs record shop in Lewisham: 'spinners equivalent of Mecca' (1980s)

The British Record Shop Archive, who put on an excellent exhibition recently about the history of Peckham record shops, mentions a few Lewisham shops on its website:

- Chequers, Lee High Road - 1970s/80s.

- Nicholls Hi Fi, 432-434 Lee High Road, SE12 -1960s?

- Muzik City and Raw Power (1980s) - both in Lewisham model market, reggae singer Winston Groovy worked at the former.

- Diamond Records (1960s) - 199 Rushey Green - it had booths in to listen to the records.



One not mentioned there is Poseurs:

'Desparate disc jockeys have been converging on a shocking pink building in Lewisham... they've discovered the record spinners' equivalent of Mecca - a shop dealing solely in 12 inch dance singles dating back to 1970. Tiffany Lee, a former pirate radio DJ, set up Poseurs three months ago' (South London Press, 17 August 1984).

Anyone remember any more about it, or other local record shops?
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3 comments:

  1. Hedley16 February 2015 at 08:51

    Chris Wellard's shop in New Cross which was on a small retail parade on the site of the Goldsmiths library (Lewisham Way side of the New Cross one way system)

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  2. Anonymous17 February 2015 at 20:33

    As a Cub Scout (7th Deptford) I did a bob-a-job there. Cleared out the basement which was stuffed literally to the ceiling with cardboard boxes and corrugated cardboard. Took hours, all day if I recall, and he didn't pay much!

    I lived in one of a small terrace of black brick 4 storey early Victorian houses at 26 Lewisham Way, a bit along from a Lovibonds off licence then on the corner opposite Goldsmith's. All knocked down to build the student accommodation block.
    Next door in a detached 1900's villa lived Dr Sawh and his daughter.
    TomW

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  3. Anonymous15 April 2015 at 02:52

    Not only did I frequent Diamond Records during the listening booth years (late 60's, I'm guessing), I also recall them installing their 'headphone' stations, where you could listen out in the store.

    In terms of other SE London record shops, there was a great one next door to the Lewisham Odeon (where I bough many David Bowie albums, such as Aladin Sane and Pin Ups), and my fondest memory of a record shop from 'back in the day' was the reggae shop (a.k.a. shed with a counter) in Lewisham Market, in the very early seventies.

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