Sorting my 7inch record database by date to find the 70s records reveals quite a collection (Click to look closer). Seeing what I have is easy enough, finding the actual records is much trickier!
Currently scattered around the house there are some 3020 7inch records that have been added to the database and more still to list..
So the collection and the database continue to grow.
About half the records in the database say where the records came from, and some have specific information as to why I was there. ‘Haverfordwest dentist run’ refers to a visit to the emergency dentist to have an excruciating tooth pulled. I remember wandering around the town with a numb jaw, trying not to dribble. ‘Haverfordwest, Mothers Day Outing 09’ speaks for itself, my mum loved a day out in Haverfordwest. 
In 2006 I bought an enormous amount of records as a job lot from a garage in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire. I was living in Llechryd at the time and had a great barn to store them in while my good friend Sam Knight made some shelving units to hold them.
Vinyl in the barn
Fully shelved in Llechryd
Once on the shelves I started to make a database of all the records I have, including a fair amount from before the mass purchase. There are actually four databases, one for 12 inch records, one for 7 inch, one for 10 inch and one for all the others. They look something like this….
These have grown over the years following and have about 4000 entries in the 12 inch, 2000 7 inch and 1000 10 inch. They mostly include track listings and many have an entry in the comment field to remind me where they came from. This lets me find multiple versions of a track or identify records that came from the same place.
Haverfordwest & Pembrokeshire lists
The found of music 