Record stores in Blackburn
Record shops reward the patient digger. Blackburn, England has 39 mapped right now. That's 39 record shops mapped around Blackburn. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.
This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Blackburn (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Vinyl Revival and Townsends Records, plus T Venables Vinyl Records. If a record shop's missing from Blackburn's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Blackburn record lineup
39 mapped within about 40 km:
Vinyl Revival
Record store
Vinyl Revival — Record store, found on 5 Hilton Street in Manchester.
5 Hilton Street, Manchester, M4 1LP
Townsends Records
Record store
Townsends Records — Record store.
T Venables Vinyl Records
Record store
T Venables Vinyl Records — Record store.
Rimmer's Music
Record store
Rimmer's Music — Record store, found on Chapel Brow in Leyland.
Chapel Brow, Leyland
Piccadilly Records
Record store
Piccadilly Records is Record store on 53 Oldham Street, Manchester. Piccadilly Records also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00.
53 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JR
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00
Eastern Bloc
Record store
Eastern Bloc is Record store on 5a Stevenson Square, Manchester.
5a Stevenson Square, Manchester, M1 1DN
Fopp
Record store
Fopp is Record store on 19 Brown Street, Manchester. Fopp also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-17:30; Su 11:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
19 Brown Street, Manchester, M2 1DA
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-17:30; Su 11:00-17:00
Quicksilver Music
Record store
Quicksilver Music — Record store, found on Market Street in Southport.
Market Street, Southport
Vinyl Finders
Record store
Vinyl Finders is Record store on Wesley Street, Southport.
Wesley Street, Southport
HMV
Record store
HMV is Record store on Bank Hey Street, Blackpool.
Bank Hey Street, Blackpool, FY1 4RZ
Kingbee Records
Record store
Kingbee Records — Record store, found on Wilbraham Road in Manchester.
Wilbraham Road, Manchester, M21 0UF
Clampdown Records
Record store
Clampdown Records is Record store on 9-11 Paton Street, Manchester. Clampdown Records also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
9-11 Paton Street, Manchester, M1 2BA
Phone: +44 161 237 5932
Booth's
Record store
Booth's is Record store.
X-Records
Record store
X-Records is Record store on 44 Bridge Street, Bolton. X-Records also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
44 Bridge Street, Bolton, BL1 2EG
Phone: +44 1204 524018
Wax and Beans
Record store
Wax and Beans is Record store.
Planet rock records
Record store
Planet rock records is Record store on Pollard Street East. Planet rock records also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Pollard Street East
Drumbeat
Record store
Drumbeat is Record store on 15 Bolton Street, Chorley.
15 Bolton Street, Chorley, PR7 3AA
Malcolm's Musicland
Record store
Malcolm's Musicland — Record store, found on Chapel Street in Chorley. Also worth knowing about Malcolm's Musicland: the map lists its hours as Mo,Tu,Th,Fr 10:00-16:30; Sa 10:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Chapel Street, Chorley
Hours: Mo,Tu,Th,Fr 10:00-16:30; Sa 10:00-16:00
Phone: +44 1257 264362
Vinyl Exchange
Record store
Vinyl Exchange is Record store on 18 Oldham Street, Manchester. Vinyl Exchange also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 12:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
18 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JN
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-18:00; Su 12:00-17:00
Townsend Records
Record store
Townsend Records is Record store.
Music for the Soul
Record store
Music for the Soul is Record store.
K Stars
Record store
K Stars — Record store, found on 2 St Mary's Gate in Manchester. Also worth knowing about K Stars: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 11:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
2 St Mary's Gate, Manchester, M1 1PX
Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00
Pan Rhythm
Record store
Pan Rhythm — Record store, found on 102 Wilmslow Road in Manchester.
102 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M14 5AJ
Johnny Roadhouse Music
Record store
Johnny Roadhouse Music is Record store on 123 Oxford Road, Manchester. Johnny Roadhouse Music also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-17:30.
123 Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 7DU
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-17:30
HMV
Record store
HMV is Record store.
Forty Five Records
Record store
Forty Five Records — Record store.
Sound Bar
Record store
Sound Bar is Record store. Sound Bar also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Mars Tapes
Record store
Mars Tapes is Record store on Church Street. Mars Tapes also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Church Street
Dub Merchant
Record store
Dub Merchant — Record store, found on Church Street in Manchester. Also worth knowing about Dub Merchant: it has a website with more detail.
Church Street, Manchester
Vinyl Resting Place
Record store
Vinyl Resting Place is Record store on Church Street, Manchester. Vinyl Resting Place also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Church Street, Manchester
The Exchange
Record store
The Exchange — Record store, found on 17 Burnley Road in Todmorden. Also worth knowing about The Exchange: the map lists its hours as We-Su 09:30-16:30; it has a website with more detail.
17 Burnley Road, Todmorden, OL14 7BU
Hours: We-Su 09:30-16:30
Manchester Bee CDs and Music
Record store
Manchester Bee CDs and Music is Record store.
HMV
Record store
HMV is Record store on Fishergate Walk, Preston.
Fishergate Walk, Preston, PR1 2NR
Record Shack
Record store
Record Shack — Record store on 115 Withington Road.
115 Withington Road, M16 8EE
HMV
Record store
HMV is Record store on Unit 32A Grand Arcade, Wigan. HMV also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Unit 32A Grand Arcade, Wigan, WN1 1BH
Phone: +441942321427
Trust Music
Record store
Trust Music is Record store.
Kaleidoscope
Record store
Kaleidoscope is Record store on 30 Westfield Street. Kaleidoscope also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-15:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
30 Westfield Street, WA10 1QF
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-15:00
Phone: +44 1744 454190
Alan's Albums & Retro
Record store
Alan's Albums & Retro is Record store on 78-80 Topping Street, Blackpool. Alan's Albums & Retro also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
78-80 Topping Street, Blackpool, FY1 3AD
Phone: +44 7949 936825
Jims Vinyls
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Jims Vinyls — Record store.
What the map tells us about record stores in Blackburn
8 of the 39 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.
13 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.
There's a cluster: 3 of them sit on Church Street, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The Blackburn record crawl
The efficient Blackburn record crawl strings these together: Vinyl Revival on 5 Hilton Street, Townsends Records, T Venables Vinyl Records, Rimmer's Music on Chapel Brow, Piccadilly Records on 53 Oldham Street, Eastern Bloc on 5a Stevenson Square, Fopp on 19 Brown Street, and Quicksilver Music on Market Street — 39 stops, one logical order. 31 more are listed below.
Record digging tips for Blackburn
How the regulars work Blackburn's bins:
- Ask to play it at Vinyl Revival. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
- The dollar bin is honest work at Townsends Records. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
- Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
- Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Blackburn — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Blackburn can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 39 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.
We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 39 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Record store listings for Blackburn: 39 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.