The Diskery Record Shop

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Date:24th of July 2001

Description:This article entitled "How The Years Spin Round" was written by Sophie Blakemore and published in the Birmingham Mail. The article can be read easily by clicking on the "zoomify" plug in next to the picture.

The Diskery stands on Bromsgrove Street near to Bristol Street. It moved to this site around 1970 and is now one of the longest surviving businesses in the area.

"I used to go the Diskery with my friends when I was a teenager. It was like escaping into another world and it always had a great atmosphere when you compared it to say HMV or Virgin. There were a few independent record shops around in Birmingham in those days but most have now gone. Visiting The Diskery today as a forty-something is an odd feeling of deja vu as the shop looks exactly the same inside and out, Even the staff don't look as though they have aged! It still has that great atmosphere I remember and that huge stock of vinyl" (Chris Sutton)

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Music Ladywood Household Goods Bromsgrove Street 2001 - 2100 (21st Century)

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