Many visitors to this website are looking for someone local to repair and restore a vintage radio or other item of vintage electronics. To help, I have compiled the following list of repairers/restorers around the UK. Simply find the repairers closest to you, and contact them to discuss your requirements. Please tell them that you got their details from this website. If you offer a repair/restoration service yourself (either as a business or as an enthusiast in your spare time) and wish to be added to this list, please contact me.
Please note that I have not dealt personally with all the repairers listed on this page, and cannot accept responsibility for the outcome of any dealings. Some of these repairers are private individuals doing the work in their spare time, while others are full-time businesses.
Unless otherwise noted, most of these repairs would expect you to deliver and collect the set, or to send it via a parcel delivery firm. Some may be prepared to collect and deliver in the local area, by agreement.
If you are contacting one of these repairers by phone or fax, please remember that here in the UK the time zone is GMT (winter) or GMT+1 (summer). If you are outside the UK, please check the time difference so that you do not inadvertantly call during the night. From outside the UK you need to dial your international access code, then 44 (for the UK), then the area code and number shown but omitting the initial zero. For example, to dial 01234 567890 from outside the UK, dial your international access code then 44 1234 567890. Telephone numbers beginning 07 are mobile phones.
To reduce the chances of these people receiving spam or viruses by email, I have shown their email addresses in a form that is not immediately machine-readable. To get the email address of a repairer, replace the word "(at)" with the "@" character and remove the spaces either side.
The entries on this page are in alphabetical order of surname or company name. Descriptions are based on text provided by the repairer/restorer.
Arkless Electronics
Bedlington, Northumberland (near Newcastle on Tyne)
E-Mail - arkless.electronics (at) btinternet.com
Tel - 01670 829891
Repair and restoration mainly of good quality hi-fi equipment ancient and modern. Leak, Armstrong, Quad, Rogers etc.valve and solid state. Servicing of guitar and bass amps, juke box amps, PA systems, old studio equipment, valve radio's and similar equipment also undertaken. Sorry, no televisions, video recorders, CD or DVD players, cheap far east manufactured midi systems etc.Audio Vision Services
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
Email (Trevor Goodenough) - audiovisionservices (at) yahoo.com
Web - http://audiovisionservices.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk
Phone (work) - 01563 540444
Phone (home) - 01563 521586
Since the web site was started my working partner has retired. 30% of my work is on vintage sets - radio and 405 line TV. I have an Aurora converter, Band 1 crystal controlled modulator and a PLL band 3 modulator. I recently obtained a massive quantity of spares and complete radios from Joe Urban in Fife so I am very well equipped.
Mike Barker
Swindon, Wiltshire
Email - mike (at) workingwireless.co.uk
Murphy specialistMalcolm Bennett's Vintage Radios
Sittingbourne, Kent
Email - mfb (at) valve.demon.co.uk
Web - http://www.valve.demon.co.uk
Repair or full restoration service for valve radios, radiograms, hi-fi amplifiers and jukebox amplifiers. May also undertake some very early transistor equipment up to 1960.Crowthorne Tubes
Crowthorne, Berkshire, RG45 6JS
Email - crowthornetubes (at) aol.com or Gerry (at) crowthornetubes.com
Phone - 01344 771563
Willing to take on work on valve Radio/TV and audio ranging from a quick safety check to a comprehensive restoration. I prefer to do restoration work in the winter months. All work is guaranteed. Happy to offer free estimates and advice over the phone on 01344 771563.Neil Fairley
Leicester, East Midlands
Web - http://www.vintage-vet.co.uk/
Email - vintage.vet (at) ntlworld.com
Phone - 07986 495793
Willing to take on work on valve radio and audio ranging from a quick safety check to a comprehensive restoration. All work is guaranteed. Happy to offer free estimates and advice.Michael Goscombe
Radio Workshop, West Street, Chipping Norton, Oxon, OX7 5AA
E-mail - mikegee (at) phonecoop.coop
Phone - 01608 645307
Classic and vintage radio and audio equipment repaired by engineer with 35 years experience in trade. Domestic and car wirelesses serviced. Sets will need to be delivered and collected or sent by carrier.
Trevor Joyes
Bristol area
Email - trevor (at) tpjoyes.free-online.co.uk
Phone - 01179 236745
Repairs and restorations to valve or transistor radios, radiograms, record players, tape recorders and amplifiers, dating from the 1930's onwards. Sorry no televisions. Very flexible on the degree of work that you want undertaken and delivery/collection arrangements.London Sound
Harrow, London
Email - londonsound (at) msn.com
Web - http://www.londonsound.org
Phone - 020 8868 9222
We service, repair, overhaul audio and hi-fi equipment. This can range from vintage wireless receivers from the 1930's, right up to some of the finest hi-fi of the 90s. We happily repair amplifiers, cassette decks, loudspeakers, record decks, tape receivers, recorders, (reel to reel), tuners, tuner-amplifiers. We do not repair computer or television related products. All repairs are guaranteed for 12 months, in writing. All estimates are free, and we can often give a guide price by email or telephone.Richard Newman
Croydon, Surrey
Email - richard (at) northdowns154.freeserve.co.uk
Repairs to valve radios between 1935 and 1960 and some early transistor sets between 1957 and mid sixties depending on make/model (not Japanese).Past Times Radio
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Email (Richard Booth) - richard (at) pasttimesradio.co.uk
Web - http://www.pasttimesradio.co.uk
Phone - 01302 858468
Repairs valve and transistor sets up to 1970. Normally uses carriers for collection and delivery but can collect/deliver in person by agreement, if necessary or appropriate.Peak Wireless
Peak District
Email (Derek Townsend) - peakwireless (at) aol.com
Vintage Radio - mainly 1950s to 1970s. Derek has worked in the servicing trade since the late 50s.Seth Pittham
Norbury, South London, SW16. This is between Streatham and Croydon. A23.
Email - seth.pittham (at) googlemail.com
Web - http://www.vintageampdoctor.co.uk
All general vintage radio / TV / Audio repair to professional and vintage amplifiers/ restoration work undertaken. If it has valves, it will be fixed. Price comes second to providing a good service to someone who will appreciate a job well done. Not a shop / business, just enthusiastic. Even the odd transistor set gets through sometimes! Callers are welcome. You don't have to buy something. If you want to discuss a problematic fault or bounce ideas around, by all means I'd like to hear from you. Will collect and return, depending on area.Tim Pullin
Bradford on Avon, near Bath.
Email - timothy.pullin (at) bt.com
Phone (mobile) - 07802 770395
Glad to repair valve radios, tape recorders, amplifiers and test equipment (sorry no radiograms or tellys!). Also transistor sets up to around 1970.Radiocraft
Main Street, Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire, WR11 7UF
Email (Steve Ostler) - steve (at) vintage-wireless.com
Web - http://www.vintage-wireless.com
Phone - 01386 882280 or 07876 296019 (mobile)
Comprehensive restoration service for vintage radio and television. Five-year guarantee. Collection and delivery nationwide.Pete Roberts
Runcorn, Cheshire. Situated by River Mersey about ten miles upstream from Beatle City - Liverpool.
Email - PeteRoberts007 (at) aol.com
Web - http://hometown.aol.com/PeteRoberts007/home.htm
Nationwide postal service for repairs to all transistor equipment, particularly radios from the Fifties and Swinging Sixties. Small valve radios accepted for repair, especially portables, but as I don't drive customer must be able to deliver/collect. Repairs to geiger counters and other scientific kit undertaken.Martin Scobie
South Devon area
Email - marie (at) marie34.freeserve.co.uk
Web - http://www.vintagewireless.net
Phone - 01803 293157
Repairs and restores "anything that takes a minute or so to warm up!". Collection and delivery can be arranged at cost.Mick Shute
Manningtree, Essex
e-mail - mick.shute (at) btinternet.com
Phone - 01206 396767
Willing to take on most work on valve audio equipment. Please e-mail or call to enquire. Work guaranteed, free estimates.Sparrow Electronics
Based in Brighton and Eastbourne, covers the whole of East and West Sussex
Email (Ian Holmes) - idholmes (at) sparrow-electronics.co.uk
Telephone - 01273 546033
All types of domestic valve radio and valve amplifier (hi-fi and guitar) repair and restoration. Qualified electrical engineer with 35 years experience in valve equipment repair.Vintage TV and Wireless
Hellesdon, Norwich, Norfolk
Email (Rob Howard) - info (at) vintagetvandwireless.co.uk
Web - http://www.vintagetvandwireless.co.uk
Phone - 01603 429816
Offer a specialist service to restore, service, repair and sell vintage electronic equipment. We are based in Norwich, Norfolk in England and are glad to accept equipment in person, but if you live away from our beautiful county you can also call us for information regarding our mail order service.Edward Widdowson
Chorleywood, on the Herts/Bucks border
Email - vintagewireless (at) dsl.pipex.com
Restoration of British valve radio and audio equipment by broadcast trained engineer. All work guaranteed. Located in Buckinghamshire.
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