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Record Shop Tour

L&H Cloake, Churchill Square

By John Lias

No photo of the premises for this one, given the obvious changes that have taken place in Churchill Square, but I do remember going here a few times in the mid to late 70s.

It was situated away from Western Road at the back and, for those who remember Churchill Square at the time, it shared the characteristics of most shops there: somewhat cold and down-at-heel.

This page was added on 10/10/2008.

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I remember that shop. I bought blank cassettes there.

By Simon (28/11/2009)

Cloake's must have been part of a chain - I used to go in their Redhill shop when I lived in Surrey. How many shops did they have?

By Mike Atherton (29/01/2012)

I worked for RCA Records from 1969 - 1973 selling records to shops in Sussex Surrey & Hampshire, L & H Cloak at the time also had branches in The Boulevard Crawley & Redhill. It was a family business, I used to deal with Richard Cloake at Crawley, a really nice family concern.

By John Desborough (22/02/2012)