Manufactured in Hayes

The click of old vinyl ...
The artwork on those album and single covers ...

Lovely stuff ...


Check out your old Beatles albums. Their record label in the 60's was Parlophone, a subsidiary of EMI and all their seminal albums (A Hard Day's Night, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's, Yellow Submarine) bore on their labels the words 'Manufactured in Hayes'.

I had a quick cuppa in the Vinyl Canteen today in the Old Vinyl Factory (The old EMI pressing plant) in Hayes.

George Harrison's video for 'Living in The Material World' shows scenes from the factory at its busiest ...

Redevelopment now beckons ...


The Record Wall
The Vinyl Canteen
The Old Vinyl Factory