Record stores in Hull

Vinyl hunting in Hull, England? There are 8 record shops mapped here. That's 8 record shops mapped around Hull. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Hull (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Replay Records and Minster Records, plus Yowcha. If a record shop's missing from Hull's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Hull record lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Hull

2 of the 8 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Hull record crawl

The efficient Hull record crawl strings these together: Replay Records on 62-64 Freeman Street, Minster Records, Yowcha on 135 Alexandra Road, G.O. on 30 Cottingham Road, Beverley Music Center, Wrecking Ball on Whitefriargate, Bug Vinyl, and HMV — 8 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Hull

Digging in Hull? A few habits pay off:

• Ask to play it at Replay Records. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Buy the weird stuff at Minster Records. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Hull — 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 Hull can take a while to appear. The 8 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 8 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.