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Spillers was founded in 1894 by Henry Spiller at its original location in Queens Arcade, where the shop specialised in the sale of phonographs, wax phonograph cylinders and shellac phonograph discs and also sold and repaired musical instruments. In the early 1920s, Spiller's son Edward took over the running of the business and, with the aid of ...
Cardiff is home to the world's oldest record shop, Spillers Records, which was established in 1894, and was situated in The Hayes area of the city centre before relocating to the nearby Morgan Arcade in 2010. [2]
It was established in 1995 [2] by Paul Hawkins. Having opened as an LP mail order department, "a time when vinyl was in its darkest days". [3] Hawkins has described being (at the time) one of the only South Wales record stores with a wide enough range of vinyl records, with only Spillers Records in Cardiff (the oldest surviving store in the world) serving for regional competition.
Cardiff is famous for its Victorian arcades. These include the Royal Arcade and Morgan Arcade, both of which have entrances on The Hayes. Morgan Arcade is the present home to Spillers Records, which is the oldest record shop in the world. [2]
Also of note is the Hayes, home to Spillers Records, the world's oldest record shop. [16] [17] Cardiff has a number of markets, including the vast Victorian indoor Cardiff Central Market and the newly established Riverside Community Market, which specialises in locally produced organic produce. Several out-of-town retail parks exist, such as ...
The single was first made available through independent record shops in 7" vinyl format on 5 March. [80] An exclusive three-coloured vinyl was also sold at only one shop – Spillers Records in Cardiff. The shop, which Jones visited as a boy, was founded in 1894 and is listed in Guinness World Records as the world's oldest record shop. [81]
A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music. Per the name, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records. But over the course of the 20th century, record shops sold the new formats that were developed, such as eight track tapes, compact cassettes and compact discs (CDs
In October 2007, Head Records opened its first location in the former Fopp store in Leamington Spa. [1]In December 2009 and March 2010, Head Records opened its second and third stores in Bromley and at The Galleries in Bristol, the latter of which had previously been a Head Entertainment store; despite the similar name, Head Entertainment was a separate entity to Head Records.