11 July 1939: the HMV store on Oxford Street Photograph: JA Hampton1950s: the store's shop floorPhotograph: HMV1950s: customers using listening boothsPhotograph: HMV
1950s: customers browse and listen to recordsPhotograph: HMV1950s: the vinyl stockroom at the Oxford Street storePhotograph: HMV1953: customers use a press button listening panelPhotograph: PA1950s: shoppers in the specialist music departmentPhotograph: HMV1958: customers browse through recordsPhotograph: Bert Hardy Advertising Archive/Getty Images1963: an HMV van outside the storePhotograph: HMV19 December 1973: customers and staff during a power cutPhotograph: Angela Deane-Drummond/Getty Images20 December 1973: interior of the storePhotograph: Angela Deane-Drummond/Getty Images
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