Category: Trade: Music, Records Retailer

Reality Records, Warminster

Thursday 23rd October 2025

Calling all music lovers, collectors & vinyl diggers!

Step inside Reality Records, tucked away inside The Little Boutique Emporium in the Market place, Warminster, and lose yourself in the sounds that shaped generations.

We BUY and SELL vinyl records!

Bring in your old favourites or discover new ones — we’re always looking for great collections and offering fair prices.

Plus, explore everything that makes music culture come alive:

Band T-shirts

Signed memorabilia & merch

Iconic posters & photography

Come browse, trade, and talk music — just the way it should be.

That true record-store vibe you can’t stream!

Whether you’re after that holy grail LP, adding to your band tee collection, or just soaking up the nostalgia — Reality Records is the place to be.

Reality Records — Real Music. Real Merch. Real Vibes.

Reality Records Moving To The Little Boutique, Warminster

5th October 2025

A message from Marc Andrews:

Really excited to announce Reality Records will be permanently at The Little Boutique Emporium in Warminster – 1 Market Place. Grand opening Thursday 9th October 2025. We’ll be opening 6 days a week to start.

We buy and sell records, CDs, music memorabilia. Please pop in and have a look around, it’s a great space to shop. See you soon.

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Looking Back At Music Man

Friday 12th September 2025

Danny Howell writes:
We are all familiar today with Backhouse Bet at 7 Market Place Warminster (by the traffic lights opposite the junction of Market Place and Weymouth Street) (correction to original post) but back in August 1986 when I took this photo, the premises were occupied by Music Man, They sold vinyl albums and cassette tapes.

The biggest selling albums in the UK chart at that time included Madonna – True Light; Five Star – Silk And Steel; Simply Red – Picture Book; Wham – The Final; AHA – Hunting High And Low; Sique Sique Sputnik – Flaunt It; Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms; Queen – A Kind Of Magic; The Communards – The Communards; Prince And The Revolution – Parade; Chris de Burgh – Into The Light; Eurythmics – Revenge; Lionel Ritchie – Dancing On The Ceiling; and Various Artists – That’s What I Call Music 7.

I remember going with a friend who wanted to buy and listen to something different and new to him. He chose Genesis, Invisible Touch. He took it home and played it and hated it! He took it back to Music Man and they refunded him his money.

The cost of a vinyl album back then was about £4.99. It has to be said that most people at that time preferred to buy cassette tapes.

All seemed to be going well for Music Man in Warminster but one night a person or persons went through that wooden door to the right of the shop and out of sight in the passageway gained access through a window in the side wall to the shop. A police report said the entire stock of the shop was stolen. That was the end of Music Man in Warminster – they never restocked after the robbery and closed for good.

William Power (Electrical) Ltd., At 26 Three Horseshoes Mall, Warminster, In July 1986

July 1986

The William Power (Electrical) Ltd. shop at 26 Three Horseshoes Mall, Warminster, pictured during July 1986.

To the left of it is the Gorge cafe. To the right of it (off the picture) was the shop of Reg Smith & Ford Sports.

The William Power (Electrical) Ltd. shop sold white goods such as freezers and smaller electrical items such as kettles, irons, lamps, cassette players and radios.

It also sold vinyl records (singles and albums) and music cassette tapes, including top 40 chart hits.

Steve Jones worked in the shop.

The co-proprietor and manager of the shop was Alan Tungate, who was very knowledgeable about music.

The shop also stocked video films for sale and for hire. Rodney Weeks, who worked for the business, drove a van around Warminster and district, with the video films, calling street by street in the evenings, visiting customers who hired the tapes overnight or for brief periods. During the daytime, Rodney delivered large white goods to customers who had purchased those things from the shop or the company’s retail warehouse.

Alan Tungate’s business partner, Frank Langley, ran the William Power warehouse at Woodcock Trading Estate, Warminster, where large white goods were displayed and retailed.

Photograph taken by Danny Howell in July 1986.

William Power Top Ten Singles Chart

From The Wylye Valley Life magazine, issue no.41, Friday 13th December 1985:

Wylye Valley Life Top Ten Singles Chart compiled by William Power (Electrical), Three Horseshoes Mall, Warminster

1. Saving All My Love – Whitney Houston.

2. I’m Your Man – Wham.

3. Separate Lives – Phil Collins/Marylin Martin.

4. Dress You Up – Madonna.

5. See The Day – D.C. Lee.

6. Say You, Say Me – Lionel Richie.

7. We Built This City – Starship.

8. Spies Like Us – Paul McCartney.

9. Run To The Hills – Iron Maiden.

10. West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys.

Chart supplied by William Power (Electrical) Ltd., Record, Hi-Fi, Video and Electrical Store,. Three Horseshoes Mall, Warminster. Also at Westbury and Frome.

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