Ye Olde Community Corner Shoppe
Having tried to learn the trumpet as a schoolboy, 14-year-old Paul McCartney confessed to his dad he really wanted to play the guitar.
His father had bought the trumpet from Rushworths, a music store in Liverpool, which kindly let him exchange it for a £25 German guitar. And a global legend was born.
Then in 1962, after they’d got a recording contract, John Lennon and George Harrison called in to Rushworths to buy two Gibson guitars. Anthony Hornby, who lives in Birkenhead, Merseyside, misses the family-owned music store, which closed in 2002 after 174 years in business. He says: “In the 1960s when I was a teenager, we used to go to Rushworths music store and go into a booth and listen to our favourite songs on a 45rpm vinyl before we bought them.”
Some other iconic shops from Liverpool’s high street are also long gone.
“The other shops that I miss are Zodiac Toys, Jackson the Tailor, and Burton’s had a tailor shop as well.”
■ Which lost shops or Christmas grottos do you miss? Email siobhan. mcnally@mirror.co.uk