Imperial Records (1920)

Imperial label of the red type used in the early 1930s. This particular issue is an example of a record pressed for export, in this case to Sweden.

Imperial Records was the second United Kingdom-based label of that name, which went into business in 1920. Imperial was owned by the Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd. of Tonbridge, Kent, England. The company's main recording studio was in London. Most Imperial issues were recorded by the company, but some issues from masters leased from other companies in Continental Europe and from the United States' Banner Records also appeared on Imperial.

Most Imperial recordings were of popular songs, music hall tunes, and dance music of the time. The label went out of business in February 1934.

A history of Imperial Records, together with a listing of known records issued by the label, is published by the CLPGS in their Reference Series of books.

Tonbridge

Buildings	Castle Parish Church Priory Priory Mill Railway station Somerhill House † St. Stephen's Church Town Mill

Businesses	Imperial Records New Enterprise Coaches Warners Solicitors

Events	Securitas depot robbery 1968 floods

People	Bishops of Tonbridge Old Juddians Old Tonbridgians People from Tonbridge

Political	Lowey of Tonbridge (11th-19th centuries) Tunbridge constituency (1885-1918) Tonbridge constituency (1918-74) Tonbridge and Malling constituency (since 1974) Tonbridge and Malling borough (since 1974) Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council (since 1974) Local elections

Schools, colleges and universities	Hayesbrook Hilden Grange Hillview Hugh Christie Judd K College Ridge View Somerhill † Thomas Delarue (closed) Tonbridge Tonbridge Grammar University of Kent Weald of Kent Woodlands Yardley Court †

Sports, arts and leisure	Angel Ground Half Marathon Haysden Country Park KMFM West Kent Longmead Stadium Missing (TV series) Oast Theatre Tonbridge Angels F.C. Swimming Pool Tunbridge ware

Twin towns	Heusenstamm Le Puy-en-Velay

† Italics denotes building in Tudeley-cum-Capel civil parish

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Imperial Records (1920)

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