by GrahamH » 26 Feb 2018, 14:28
Hi all.
Originally, Mamelok's (where in 1967 I bought my first and only AC30 with money saved from my paper round!) was also on Oxford Rd, a store as big as Barratt's. That small area of Manchester had four such shops within about 2 minutes' walk of each other, where my schoolfriends and I would spend many an hour gazing longingly at the goodies in the windows!. Mamelok's later moved to a smaller shop on Deansgate.
The Manchesterbeat website as a whole is well worth a visit - masses of info, but a word of warning. If, like me, you get irritated by people who should know better claiming there was no British pop before the Beatles, and that everything happened in Liverpool and nowhere else, you'll be even more so after browsing this site.
Graham