The Retro Directory

Specialized Toy Restoration - Smart Choice Repair Center

Boca Raton

Smart Choice Repair Center (Boca Raton, FL) is a full-service repair and restoration centre specialising in antique and vintage toys — including battery-operated and tin wind-up toys, electric and wind-up toy trains, and vintage dolls/talkers — plus small vintage electricals (radios, lamps, fans). They fabricate parts (springs, gears), perform speaker/headphone repairs, offer prototyping/3D-printing via a FabLab, and provide mail-in and local pickup/delivery options.

SS Radio – the repair people since 1938

Wallasey, Merseyside

SS Radio is a long-established Wallasey repair specialist (trading since 1938) offering workshop servicing and restoration of classic audio equipment — including cassette decks, CD players, turntables, reel-to-reel machines, valve and transistor amplifiers — plus amplifier/speaker repair, DJ gear (notably Pioneer CDJ) servicing, TV and Smart TV repairs, and insurance/engineers' reports.

Studiocare Service & Repair – Professional Audio Equipment Repair UK

Liverpool, Merseyside

Liverpool-based professional audio retailer and authorised service centre offering repair and restoration for microphones, mixing consoles, loudspeakers and DJ gear. Also stocks used pro-audio kit, builds custom cables, provides hire/rental and designs/install bespoke venue sound systems. Experienced technicians with access to manufacturer parts and service manuals.

Synth & Professional Audio Repair - Mr Circuit Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Mr Circuit is a Shrewsbury-area workshop specialising in vintage synthesizer and pro-audio repair, modifications and full restorations. They service classic Roland, Korg, Yamaha, Moog and similar-era gear (drum machines, synths, decks), offer parts sourcing, custom circuit work and mixing/mastering, and accept visits or insured courier delivery to their workshop near Shrewsbury.

Synthesizer Keyboards | New & Second Hand at Absolute Music

Bournemouth, Dorset

Absolute Music is a large Bournemouth-based music superstore selling new and second‑hand synthesizers — including rare vintage analogue instruments — alongside studio kit and accessories. They operate a 14,000 sq ft showroom with in‑house technicians who inspect used gear, a repair/workshop, rehearsal rooms and a recording studio. Suitable for buying, demoing or getting synths serviced.

The Centre for Computing History Museum – Cambridge

Cambridge

The Centre for Computing History (Cambridge) is a hands-on museum dedicated to preserving and exhibiting computing and gaming hardware from the 1970s–1990s. Displays cover classic home computers, early consoles and arcade history, with interactive exhibits (eg. Big Trak), an education room and a visitor café/snack bar.

The Jim Austin Computer Collection

Fimber, East Riding of Yorkshire

The Jim Austin Computer Collection (The Computer Sheds) is a private museum in Fimber, East Yorkshire, with over 1,500 computers and thousands of related artifacts spanning the history of computing. Open to the public by guided tour (donation requested), the collection includes mainframes, Cray supercomputers, DEC machines, Altair 8800s, early calculators and many rarities. Tours and volunteer opportunities are available by arrangement.

The National Museum of Computing

Milton Keynes

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park houses the world’s largest collection of working historic computers, spanning wartime machines like Colossus through mainframes to 1980s personal computing. Open to the public with guided tours, events and learning programmes, the museum also runs conservation projects, offers vintage computer hire and operates an online shop selling books, prints and memorabilia.

THE RETRO GAME CORNER

Online retro games and consoles shop specialising in classic systems (Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Atari etc.), replacement parts and modding kits (including RetroSix), plus restoration and send-in repair/retrofit services for Game Boy, Game Gear and other vintage handhelds and consoles. Also imports Japanese titles and hardware.

The Retro Zone - A Journey Back to the 70s and 80s

Keswick, Cumbria

The Retro Zone is a small, family-friendly museum in Keswick showcasing a personal collection of 1970s and 1980s toys, gadgets and early home computers — including a dedicated Sinclair display. Open most days with paid admission, the venue also runs a small gift shop selling vintage collectables and themed souvenirs.

The Toy Scavenger Ltd- Toyshop UK Vintage & Modern Store Retro Figures

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire-based online retailer specialising in vintage and collectible toys and retro gaming. Large stock of 1970s–1990s action figures (MOTU, ThunderCats, G.I. Joe, etc.), retro consoles/games, graded items and VHS tapes. Offers UK-wide buying of old toy collections, international shipping and a 'make an offer' option.

TheEPROM9 - Vintage Calculators

TheEPROM9 is a UK-based enthusiast workshop and archive specialising in vintage calculators and retro computing. The site documents extensive teardowns, restorations and repairs of 1970s–1990s calculators (VFD, Nixie, panplex, bubble-LED, LCD) and a wide range of vintage computers and laptops, plus ROM dumps and reverse-engineering projects.