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Derricks Music - Record Shop in Swansea

Started in Port Talbot in 1956 selling radios. Wales's first pop and rock shop.

Shop
Derricks Music
Address
221 Oxford Street
Town
Swansea, United Kingdom
Established
1956
Formats
Vinyl, CDs, 7"
Crates
Rock, Pop, Soul, Indie, Folk, Classical
In the shop
Buys collections, Ticket outlet

Derrick opened an electrical shop on Talbot Street in Port Talbot in 1956, selling records, radios and hi-fi, and worked out fairly quickly that the records were the profitable part. The family opened a second shop given over to pop and rock - said to be the first in Wales dedicated to it - and when Port Talbot was redeveloped in 1968 and one of the shops was due for demolition, they moved the record trade to Swansea. It is on Oxford Street now, run by Derrick's nephew Chris Stylinaou, seventy years on from a counter that was mostly radios.