HMV on Oxford Street – a history in pictures

11 July 1939: the HMV store on Oxford Street
Photograph: JA Hampton

1950s: the store's shop floor Photograph: HMV

1950s: customers using listening booths Photograph: HMV

1950s: customers browse and listen to records Photograph: HMV

1950s: the vinyl stockroom at the Oxford Street store Photograph: HMV

1953: customers use a press button listening panel Photograph: PA

1950s: shoppers in the specialist music department Photograph: HMV

1958: customers browse through records Photograph: Bert Hardy Advertising Archive/Getty Images

1963: an HMV van outside the store Photograph: HMV

19 December 1973: customers and staff during a power cut Photograph: Angela Deane-Drummond/Getty Images

20 December 1973: interior of the store Photograph: Angela Deane-Drummond/Getty Images