Halesworth MusicEmporium

John Trowbridge opened Halesworth Music Emporium on Bridge Street in the unit that had previously housed the shop Hunky Dory, bringing forty years of buying and selling records to a single high-street counter. The stock runs from 1930s pressings through to current releases, covering country, rock and roll, soul, indie, punk and rap, with new and secondhand vinyl and CDs shelved together by genre rather than by condition. A record deck sits on the counter so customers can hear a disc before buying it. Trowbridge operates a buy-all policy when people bring in collections to sell, taking on full boxes rather than picking out only the most valuable titles. The shop also displays oil paintings of local landscapes by artist Dianne Lindsay on its walls, giving the room a gallery feel alongside the racks of records.