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The Manor record label was a product of Northern Sound Services,
who were based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northumberland, at Broad Chare,
Quayside. Northern Sound Services did their own recordings and pressed records as well. NSS's own label, called Northern Sound Services, was for private or personal recordings, whereas Manor was a commercial label, the records costing 5/9 and dating from the early to mid 1950s. Their masters usually had NSS- prefixes and can be found on other small British labels of the period, buch as Bajedo and Nigerian Accurate records, both produced for exporting to West Africa. The Manor issues generally had MRC- prefixed masters but also show a 0 (or O) prefixed number which implies a link with Levy's Oriole records. It is thought that Levy's pressed most of the Manor issues, presumbly because, as a commercial proposition, higher numbers were being made than could be produced in NSS's own plant. Thanks to Bill Dean-Myatt for providing the label photo. |
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