Knighton Music continues to trade online and as a mail order company, selling via various websites and directly to an existing customer base who used the shop.
Upon returning to more website design projects, we decided to group all our business under the umbrella of Knighton Group which became our company name in 2007.
Since then we have expanded our web design portfolio and have designed websites for many local businesses including flooring, engineering, construction and electrical retail companies plus photography and music sites. You can view our portfolio of work here.
Knighton Media was introduced in 2010. This area of the company provides the transfer of old media to new such as vinyl records onto CDs or digital files and video tape to DVD.
We will be launching our new online record shop in 2026.
We continued to design and manage other client websites but adjusted the focus of our business towards music retail. The business became known as the Knighton Music Group.
Our record shop in Leicester, Knighton Music, began trading in 2005 and specialised in new and used classical, jazz & blues, country, folk & world music on CD, vinyl LP & DVD. Sadly, due to the constraints forced upon us by the (then) ongoing development of the Highcross Shopping Centre, which involved the demolishing of the nearby car park and the consequent lack of foot traffic on East Bond Street, the shop closed down in the summer of 2007. You can view a photo gallery of the shop from the music home page.
Knighton Music Shop in East Bond St, Leicester
Our Company
Knighton Group started out as Knighton Internet which was formed in 1999 and established itself in the field of music websites with BIRDpages, an index of British Independent Record Dealers. More than just a directory of music shops in the UK, it developed into a popular portal site to record collecting with music news, album reviews and a collector's trading section (as our own music mail order got busier and whilst running our shop we decided to discontinue the site in 2006).
We began to expand our business into designing and maintaining sites for other businesses in late 1999 offering a full, bespoke website design service to companies requiring an online presence at an affordable price.
The Bebop Shop, an online mail order jazz CD store, was added in 2000 and has become one of the UK's leading retailers of modern jazz music.