Does anyone remember the tiny shop round the corner on the Steine that was run by one of the Petulengro's the fortune teller/Clairvoyants? Eva, was it? I remember when, after it had been closed down for a while, some wit wrote with their finger in the dust on the window: 'closed due to...
Remember Dogma fanzine?
Wow, what a memory you have for record shops! I'd forgotten the guy in The Cottage having a plastic hand, and ta for reminding me of John in Polysound - a thoroughly sound geezer I seem to remember.
One thing I think you got slightly wrong: pretty sure it was New Moon...