A freight room full of crates.

Cratemoth opened in 2015 in the old freight room of the Ashby Junction depot. Dee Halvorsen and Theo Mbatha run it, and one of them is at the counter whenever the door is open.

The name is what a friend called Dee after a Saturday spent bent over a crate: a moth that lives in record bins. It stuck.

Almost every record here came from a home within an hour of the shop. We buy collections, grade them in front of their owners and put them in the crates the same week.