Hudsons to close?

[Pete]

Just read on the DT website that Hudsons music shop is in big trouble and likely to go bust.

Shame really, but inevitable with the changes in retail and with Internet downloads, etc.

I bought my Fender Strat from their shop in Stephenson Place (next to Greggs) back in 1972...

[Old Cruser]

Very sad to see Hudsons go if this is what happens, it's been there as long as I can remember --- and that's a long time 

[Alsatian]

Remember when they had the Market Hall store - before they expanded to the later stall in the middle of there? Happy days, flicking through the records! 

Shame that it looks as though yet another independent goes to the wall.

[simondjuk]

Getting worse.  Game has called in the administrators too.  Where will it end?

[dave7634]

...and all thanks to this thing called "the internet"

[mycul]

1963, bought "Please, please me" by the Beatles.  Cost me a whole week's pocket money (about 25p !!!)

[Fly]

You mean you actually had to buy records in the old days. LOL 

[oldenglish]

Walked past there this afternoon. They had ''Closing down after 105 years'' in the window. Really sad.

I wonder how many people (myself included) bemoaning Hudsons closure, actually shoped there?

I switched my allegiance to Some Kinda Mushroom in the 70's because they would order records that Hudsons wouldn't.

Really must get a photo of the shop front before it goes. Where, in 2012, can you see a town centre shop advertising ''Record & Cassette Centre''? My eighteen year old daughter has no idea what a cassette is!

As many have said, it's very sad.

Charles Darwin said it best:

                                       ''It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change''

[Pete]

>> I switched my allegiance to Some Kinda Mushroom in the 70's because they would order records that Hudsons wouldn't.

I think that's why Dave started Some Kinda Mushroom - truth is, as the Sixties music scene really kicked in, Hudsons didn't really embrace it.

And the shop that sold instruments upstairs was held back by old Mrs Hudson downstairs. I did some work for them when they launched Vixen (VSR) stuff in the early 70's and we had to sneak stuff out when she wasn't there to do some photography.

But I agree, it's a sad day for Chesterfield.

[Slacker]

S.K.O.M was the place to go, they had the rarer stuff though I always found I could order from Hudson's. There are still people around who prefer vinyl but doubt if enough to keep a specialist shop going. Majority download. Maybe Hudson's should have stuck with instruments.

[Fly]

I was speaking to a customer the other day.
She has a friend who comes up from London to visit her a few times a year.
The highlight of her visit was to go to Hudsons,
apparently they had a great back catalogue of records her friend couldn't get in London.
Plus a friendly hands on helpful personal style.
She'll miss them for sure.

Me, I blame the internet and digital downloads. 
Bye bye Hudsons 

[Pete]

>> Maybe Hudson's should have stuck with instruments.

Good point Slacker. In those days Hudsons had a monopoly on instruments and group gear - but nowadays there are at least two exceptional instruments/gear shops. In fact Real Time have just moved from the old Mushroom premises on Newbold Road to the old Conservative Club on Marsden Street - bigger premises and bigger plans I hear.

[Alsatian]

And the shop that sold instruments upstairs was held back by old Mrs Hudson downstairs.

I'd actually forgotten all about that shop till you reminded me with your post!