shame this is closing

the problem.

MBQ

What shop?

Brian

Sorry Brian, the post includes a link to an artice titled:

Shelved after a century: Homewares shop that has not changed in 115 years closes down after being beaten by 'the modern age'.

The shop is The Period House Shop in Warwick.

Simon.

At what point did it change from Ye Moderne Ironne Fittynges Shoppe to The Period House Shop though?

Owain

Ah a bit like all the traditional hardware shops where you could actually go and look at things and measure them without being presented with blister packs and no way to know if what you bought was up to the job.

Brian

at the Period House Shop's own website, it is clear that this company has only existed since 1985!

The shop may have existed as an ironmongers since eighteen-something-or-other - but not under that name. When I came to live just outside Warwick in the 1960's it was called Wyllie's - and was much bigger than the current shop, also occupying what is now a separate shop to the right of it.

There is a hardware shop 5 minutes from my front door that is still like that. Bins full of loose nails - sold by the Kg, bins full of bolts + nuts, 50+ bins with screws that you can buy in 10s or boxes of 200, individual plumbing fittings, bath plugs etc. When purchasing electrical fittings they will ask if you want it cheap or quality(MK) - they stock both. Not the cheapest of places but always busy.

Looks like the sort of place you could buy 'four candles'.

mark

Similar near me...

They have none of those, but they do sell fork handles...

We've got one like that 5 minutes away too. Small shop with shelving close together to fit everything in - you have to come out from between the shelves to pass someone! Prices are actually very good - way, way cheaper than any chain. Unfortunately they aren't open on Sunday afternoons or Wednesdays - which I keep forgetting :(

SteveW

and some 'ose

following that link leads to a page with 'above the fold':

Why not try... Profile image for Robert Dyas Holdings Ltd Robert Dyas Holdings Ltd

I think they should have combined it with a traditional sweet shop.

"I'll have half a pound of 2 inch screws and a quarter of sherbets please". Would have gone down well if you didn't get the bags mixed up. Simon.

We used to have one like that but they kept changing their opening hours so I nearly always went there to find they were closed.

Now it's just the sheds with those damn blister packs.

Seems to me that the ought to be trading on the web as well as in the shoppe. Oh they do:

No publicity is bad publicity ...

So, there's been AN ironmongery there on that site since eighteen-canteen, but it's not been in continuous ownership; indeed, it's not been the same business at all, really. Looks to me as if the present owner bought it to cash in on the emerging trend for repro-old-tat and it's now died out. He rode the wave and fell off, dude.