I worked in city centre Manchester from '85 to '95 and was a regular record buyer and shopper and visited Virgin, HMV, Spin Inn, Eastern Bloc, Expansion Records and The Vinyl Exchange over that time.

I bought my first house record from Spin Inn when it was on Cross Street, and was an early adopter of CD's, amassing a pile of CD singles [which were limited in '87/'88] before actually buying a Technics CD player.

Lunch times at the Spin Inn were usually attended by Russ, Mike and Kenny, with Stu Allan usually stood to the right of the counter wearing a black nylon MA1 flying jacket, well after they weren't fashionable :)