Old hardware store

There's a fantastic old hardware store just near me. It has no Internet presence, but I just stumbled across a Facebook video the BBC made a couple of years ago. The most obscure thing I've bought from there are replacement gas mantles for a 1910 gas lamp. When I asked, somewhat jokingly, they came out with 3 boxes of different sizes and one matched the holder perfectly.

Sorry it's a Facebook link, but I thought it was worth sharing...

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Reply to
Andrew Gabriel
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I know it well! One of my kids (and two grandchildren) live in Fleet. Every time I go there I feel tempted to ask "Has Mr Gabriel been in today?".

Reply to
newshound

Wow thanks for that 20 min video of the ironmongers in Fleet. There seems to be no logical order for all the stock, and heaven knows how the staff remember where anything is. They really ought to number everything with index and location. Then they could advertise on the internet before their knowledge is lost.

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Dave W

In article <q3csad$sav$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, Andrew Gabriel snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk> writes

My local ironmongers is pretty good

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essential place to see if you are in North Norfolk

Reply to
Chris Holford

What's wrong with Facebook links? Are you pandering to some sort of prejudice? We use Facebook for our community group and it's excellent.

Bill

Reply to
Bill Wright

Just reading this thread has the smell of these shops in my nose again after all these years. I guess the last true chain of these was Timothy Whites. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

I think as many of us are not on there it does make it hard to get at the content without buying in to theirdata harvesting. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

We had one where we lived before a kin to the one depicted in the Corbett & Barker sketch. Behind the back wall of the counter was four storeys of store rooms filled with racks. If you wanted something not out at the front it could involve quite a wait as you listened to the counter staffs footsteps disappear into the bowels of stores only to be reassured at sound of footsteps coming back. I was once invited into the bowels when I asked for something for which there was several versions the staff member was trying to avoid several return trips, I was amazed at the lack of labelling with only screw and bolt boxes displaying information yet each member of staff could unerringly go exactly to wherever the item you wanted.

Richard

Reply to
Tricky Dicky

"have u got 4 candles?"

Reply to
Adrian Caspersz

It's a public Facegroup page so you can view it without needing a Facebook account. But no doubt they'll still gather some 'anonymised' information about you.

Reply to
Mike Clarke

Yes my SIL lives in Fleet I have bought Aladdin lamp mantles from them and cheaper then Ebay Not many shops like that nowadays

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Reply to
Mark

+1 Blyth and Wright - a proper old school hardware store.
Reply to
Biggles

If they don't work for you there's Thorns in Norwich.

Andy

Reply to
Vir Campestris

Agreed Brian. I am not now and never have been a member of fb and have no intention of visiting it in any sense if I can avoid doing so.

Reply to
polygonum_on_google

The other day I got a message from a friend wishing me a happy birthday.

It took a little while for me to remember I told Farcebook my birth date was 1/1/1900...

Andy

Reply to
Vir Campestris

I use Roboform to keep track of the unique password per system and its trivial and automatic to have it keep track of the fake data you sign up with.

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2987fr

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