Plymouth Vintage Vinyl is run by Justin Harrison with Lee and DJ Holly, on the Moorland Road parade in Plympton, five miles east of the city centre. The genre cap is pre-1990 on purpose: rock, pop, 60s and 70s disco, Motown, soul, jazz, blues, progressive rock, funk, reggae, ska, punk, folk and classical, on hand-picked second-hand vinyl. Alongside the records, a wall of vintage HiFi: Garrard, Quad, Leak, Linn, Mission and Bowers Wilkins through Pioneer, Sony, Technics and Marantz. The counter is open Mondays and Fridays, 10 to 3, by design.
Rock, pop, 60s and 70s disco, Motown, soul, jazz, blues, progressive rock, funk, reggae, ska, punk, folk and classical. Pre-1990 is the genre cap, on purpose. The bins this week carry Bowie, Dylan, Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Bob Marley and Sex Pistols, alongside Fairport Convention, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Miles Davis and The Animals.
British high-end through Japanese mainstays and Continental classics. Garrard, Quad, Leak, Mission, Bowers Wilkins, Linn, Thorens, Goldring Lenco on the British side. Pioneer, Sony, JVC, Technics, Audio Technica, Marantz on the Japanese. Bang and Olufsen, Dual from the Continent. Wurlitzer, Rowe Ami, Seeburg, MSN and Ditchburn jukeboxes when one comes through the door.
Single records or whole houses. Bring a representative crate to the counter on Monday or Friday, or send photos by email for anything larger. Home visits for collections too big to move. Justin or Lee runs the buy. Honest about what to keep and what to take to the Royal British Legion charity shop instead.
A working second discipline alongside the records. Vintage jackets, jumpers and shirts roughly 1940s through 1990s on the rail at the back. Glassware on the shelf above. Age-related themed items and ornaments where the right one turns up. The shop format is a Plympton high-street emporium under one roof, not a pure crate-digger.
The HiFi wall sits behind the counter at the back of the shop. Turntables, amplifiers, tape decks, twin-cassette decks, speakers, and the occasional jukebox when one comes through. We buy as well as sell, so what is on the shelves this week depends on what has come through the door. The regular brands are the ones a Plympton local would recognise from their parents' front room.
Bring a turntable in for an honest look. Bring a question about a speaker pairing. Bring a deceased relative's amplifier and we will tell you what it is worth and what it needs.
For the WWI centenary, we planted a Red Oak in Pathfields, the parkland between Plympton Library and Plympton Hill, a short walk from the counter. The tree is still there. Every November the Moorland Road shopfront is dressed for Remembrance: red poppies across the hoarding, a Union Jack above the door, and sandbags arranged into a shallow trench across the frontage. It is the one weekend a year the shop has a queue spilling along the pavement under bunting.
"We love to get involved with local events and support institutions such as The Royal British Legion and other Registered Charities. We are keen to provide a platform for local bands and artists and you are welcome to have a chat with us about how we can help."
MOORLAND ROAD · REMEMBRANCE WEEKEND
“We love the music. Needle and record equals bliss. A sound choice.”Justin, Lee & DJ Holly · the homepage signoff
Three owners, on a first-name basis with most of the regular collectors who come through the door on Mondays and Fridays.
Plymouth Vintage Vinyl has been trading on Moorland Road since around 2012. Three people run it: Justin Harrison, who registered the shop, Lee, who runs the buying counter alongside Justin, and DJ Holly. The shop sits on a parade in Plympton St Mary, five miles east of Plymouth city centre, with an MOT garage on one side and a Victorian terrace on the other. The Tripadvisor regulars call it "Ridgeway" rather than Moorland Road, the local shorthand for the pedestrian stretch of the parade.
Mondays and Fridays, 10 to 3, are the open days, on purpose. The other five days the counter is closed and the buying is done off-floor: collections gone through, condition graded, what is keep-able put on the bins ready for the next Monday morning. The two-day rhythm is how the shop chooses to trade, not a contraction. It is also why the regulars know to come Monday lunchtime: that is when the new-in records hit the racks.
Moorland Road is the high-street parade in Plympton St Mary, five miles east of Plymouth city centre on the A38 corridor. The shop sits on a parade with an MOT garage to one side, a short walk from Plympton library and Pathfields, where the Red Oak we planted for the WWI centenary still stands. The parade has limited frontage parking and it fills up by mid-morning, so the easier bays are on the residential side streets either side.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays the counter is closed by design. Mondays and Fridays are when Moorland Road is busiest with weekday locals, and when the new-in records hit the racks. Plan for one of those.
Mondays and Fridays, 10 to 3. The other five days the shop is closed. The two-day pattern is how we choose to trade: the days Moorland Road is busiest with weekday locals, and the rhythm that lets us look properly through collections bought during the week. Plan a counter visit for a Monday or a Friday.
Both. Bring one record or bring a houseful. For a representative crate or fewer, pop in to the counter on a Monday or Friday. For anything larger, email plymouthvintagevinyl@gmail.com with photos and a rough genre breakdown, and we will arrange either a counter visit or, for very large collections, a home visit. We pay fair prices and we will tell you honestly what is not suitable for us.
It depends on what has come through the door this week, but the regular list reads: Garrard, Pioneer, Leak, Quad, Mission, Sony, JVC, Technics, Audio Technica, Dual, Marantz, Bang and Olufsen, Bowers Wilkins, Thorens, Linn, GEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, Goldring Lenco. Plus the Wurlitzer, Rowe Ami, Seeburg, MSN and Ditchburn jukeboxes when one is in.
The Moorland Road parade has limited frontage parking and it tends to fill up by mid-morning. The easier bays are on the residential side streets either side. We are also a short walk from Plympton library and Pathfields, where the Red Oak we planted for the WWI centenary still stands.
Yes. We are listed on the Record Store Day store directory at recordstoreday.com/Store/16162 and we pull stock for the Saturday for the locals who walk to Moorland Road for it. Pop in on the day for the RSD releases and the regular crates alongside.