This week’s article is on a more modern theme than usual and for that my thanks must go to Phil Farlow, who not only supplied the period images but was manager of Threshold’s record shop at the time of their opening in 1972 at 8 Chantry Way. This striking colour photograph shows a celebration window for the Andover Carnival’s 50th anniversary and is a real explosion of musical tastes and artefacts from that 50-year period. Threshold’s first shop was in Cobham in Surrey and was connected to The Moody Blues, whose 1969 album ‘On the Threshold of a Dream’ gave the shop its name.
I WROTE about Buckland’s a few months ago. But this image sent to me by direct descendant Richard Alford has – to my knowledge – never appeared before. So I hope readers may forgive a return to the same subject. In this picture, we have moved on 30 years from the one shown before. The occasion for the patriotic decorations being the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth that took place on May 12, 1937. Two lamps still hang over the window displays of each set of premises, but the large elaborate gas lamps with ‘Buckland’ written on the shades are gone, to be replaced by what may be more modern electric lamps instead.