As the label says, Cress was based in Wallington, Surrey. It appears to have been responsible for just the one record, an EP with a short history of Radio Nordsee International on one side and excerpts from the station's 'final' broadcast (in September 1970) on the other - RNI went back on the air in January of the following year. As can be seen from the picture the catalogue number was LHR RN EP-1 and the year in which the material was published was 1971. On the only two examples I have seen pictured the purple labels appear to have been pasted on, in one case over a white label with dinking perforations. The image above has been assembled using components from damaged or incomplete examples belonging to two members of the 45cat site, Henry29 and Duncand; it's as accurate as it can be but it's not a proper scan, so bear that in mind. The only information that I've managed to gather about Cress was that a lady with that Christian name lived at the address given on the record. As she wasn't born in 1971 it seems a reasonable guess that her parents were responsible for the record label. Presumably there was a connection between her name and that of the company, but what that connection was remains a mystery to me.
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