Harlesden. One of the last two record shops left on a street that had dozens.

Shop: Hawkeye Enterprises Ltd
Address: 2 Craven Park Road
Town: London, United Kingdom
Established: 1977
Formats: Vinyl, 7", CDs, Cassette
Crates: Reggae, Dub, Soul, Funk

Hawkeye began as a label in 1974 and Gerry Anderson and Roy 'Hawkeye' Forbes-Allen opened the Craven Park Road shop in 1977; the first release was Dennis Brown's Whip Them Jah. Anderson worked the counter and was treated as a reggae authority, using his connections to find records customers could not get anywhere else. The context matters: through the seventies and eighties the run between Neasden and Harlesden - Church Road, Craven Park Road, the High Street - held dozens of record shops and labels, with Trojan, Planetone and Jet Star all nearby. Hawkeye and Starlight across the road are the only two left