Skill Electronics

This shop is the domestic electrical/​electronics equivalent of a top notch old school hardware store. It’s main line is adapters, connectors and wiring for basically any household electrics item. This includes audio/​visual and computing.
They also sell a small selection of home entertainment goods (radios/​MP3/​CD/​DVD players) but it’s pièce de résistance is their knowledge and willingness to impart this to customers when you ask for advice. This is also matched by their repairs service, something that you don’t see so often these days.
A sound little no-​nonsense place to try if you’re looking for that hard to find adaptor … or even harder to find experienced advice.

Skill electronics sell cables leads and other computer accessories. The prices of these leads are 5 times the price of what you would find in Poundland. I bought an HDMI lead for 5 pounds from skill, and then bought another at a later date from Poundland for a pound. The quality of the product was exactly the same.
I also needed a satellite cable to hook up a freesat box that never ended up working any way. The co axial satellite cable was 3.99 in skill and was a quid in Poundland; the cables were the same length and quality.
I’d prefer to buy my leads from Poundland; they do a good range in cheap cables. I’d say this shop has a skill at charging more than a less obvious competitor over the road.
However I’m sure that he does a good job on repairs. I saw a fully re-​conditioned IBM thinkpad on sale their for 100 pounds. That is a very good price on a very efficient and sturdy laptop.

Skill Electronics sell spares, cables, leads, torches, standard and specialist batteries, CCTV equipment and the occasional microwave oven and refurbished TV. ‘There’s not much ‘skill’ in that!’, you might exclaim? The ‘Skill’ part of the name is down to owner, Zahood.
Over the last couple of years I’ve had equipment that hasn’t worked and has almost ended up in the bin. Rather than consign it to landfill, I’ve been into Skill and Zahood has on every occasion bought the life back to my gear. The first time I walked in with an old Stylophone I asked ‘Can you fix this?’. ‘Is it electrical?’ he responded. I nodded. ‘Then I can fix it!’ he triumphantly replied. It’s now a running joke between us and I have him to thanks for repairing countless items recently. He’s basically a superhero with a circuit tester and a soldering iron!