At one boot sale there were three stalls that all had a number of records, the oddity was that some were missing their covers, if the record was on one stall the cover was on one of the other two stalls, I brought a number of records, one thing I noticed that although the records were UK pressings they had been sold in Sweden and had stickers with the one of the original owns name and address on it, I posted one of the records a Gospel EP, the sticker with a name & address of a previous owner fell off after 50 years the glue on the tape had dried out, I left it by the side of my keyboard, about a week later I got an email stating that was my record, and it had been stolen in the early 1970's, it was given to her by a friend who was going to throw it away, the record started her to collect records of that type, she was burgled and amongst other things her record collection was taken, the burglar was caught, but her stolen items were not recovered, a search through the recently posted records in the box found it, as the record was not an essential part of my collection as a goodwill gesture I returned the record to her, I have forgotten the title and artist but seem to remember 'Professor's' as part of the groups name, I would loved to have the story of the record from it's theft to its appearance at the Hook Road Boot Sale.
I never saw the sellers at the Boot Sale again, there were (maybe still) sales of Tea Chests of items to sell at Boot Sales, it was batches of 10 if I recall it was the equivalent to 2 chests of unsellable useless junk, 3 chests of stuff that may sell and 5 chests of decent sellable stuff, I think the sellers had brought one of these deals and divvied up the records between the three stalls or they were in different chests, all the sellers were near to each other two were next to each other, with one other seller between them and the third seller.
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