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Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes:
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On Sep 18, 6:13*pm, sm_jamieson wrote:
Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 "shop that has not changed in 115 years" I'm surprised they can't see the problem. MBQ |
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On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:39:14 PM UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote:
What shop? Brian -- -- From the sofa of Brian Gaff - Blind user, so no pictures please! "sm_jamieson" wrote in message ... Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 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. |
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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 -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active "sm_jamieson" wrote in message ... On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:39:14 PM UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote: What shop? Brian -- -- From the sofa of Brian Gaff - Blind user, so no pictures please! "sm_jamieson" wrote in message ... Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 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. |
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On 18/09/2012 18:13, sm_jamieson wrote:
Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 A shame indeed - but massively over-hyped by the Daily Wail. If you look 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. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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On 18/09/2012 19:52, Brian Gaff wrote:
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. 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. -- mailto:news{at}admac(dot}myzen{dot}co{dot}uk |
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"sm_jamieson" wrote in message ... Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 Looks like the sort of place you could buy 'four candles'. mark |
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alan writes: On 18/09/2012 19:52, Brian Gaff wrote: 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. 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. Similar near me... http://www.fleet-people.co.uk/shoppi.../business.html When I moved here, it took me a while to realise they stock just about everything, including lots of things I failed to find in the sheds. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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On 18/09/2012 20:22 mark wrote:
Looks like the sort of place you could buy 'four candles'. They have none of those, but they do sell fork handles... -- F |
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On 18/09/2012 20:14, alan wrote:
On 18/09/2012 19:52, Brian Gaff wrote: 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. 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. 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 |
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"F" news@nowhere wrote in message o.uk... On 18/09/2012 20:22 mark wrote: Looks like the sort of place you could buy 'four candles'. They have none of those, but they do sell fork handles... and some 'ose |
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On 18/09/12 20:31, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article , alan writes: On 18/09/2012 19:52, Brian Gaff wrote: 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. 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. Similar near me... http://www.fleet-people.co.uk/shoppi.../business.html When I moved here, it took me a while to realise they stock just about everything, including lots of things I failed to find in the sheds. 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 01252 623255 Ads by Google -- djc |
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On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:02:52 PM UTC+1, Roger Mills wrote:
On 18/09/2012 18:13, sm_jamieson wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 A shame indeed - but massively over-hyped by the Daily Wail. If you look 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. -- 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. |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:59:21 +0100, SteveW
wrote: On 18/09/2012 20:14, alan wrote: On 18/09/2012 19:52, Brian Gaff wrote: 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. 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. 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 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. -- (\__/) M. (='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around (")_(") is he still wrong? |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:18 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote:
Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 "shop that has not changed in 115 years" I'm surprised they can't see the problem. Seems to me that the ought to be trading on the web as well as in the shoppe. Oh they do: http://www.periodhouseshops.com/catalogue.php So whats this bit about being unable to compete against the web? Are they putting themselves out of business? And what about the two other shops? -- Cheers Dave. |
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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:18 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 Seems to me that the ought to be trading on the web as well as in the shoppe. Oh they do: http://www.periodhouseshops.com/catalogue.php So whats this bit about being unable to compete against the web? Are they putting themselves out of business? And what about the two other shops? No publicity is bad publicity ... |
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, sm_jamieson wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 Just started an interview on R4 'You & Yours' |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:04:12 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote: A shame indeed - but massively over-hyped by the Daily Wail. If you look 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. 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. |
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On 19/09/2012 10:01, Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:18 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 Seems to me that the ought to be trading on the web as well as in the shoppe. Oh they do: http://www.periodhouseshops.com/catalogue.php So whats this bit about being unable to compete against the web? Are they putting themselves out of business? And what about the two other shops? No publicity is bad publicity ... Also, the bit about Warwick suffering due to next door Leamington becoming a spa is complete cobblers! Leamington was a spa *before* the original shop opened! -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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On 19/09/2012 15:40, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:04:12 +0100, Roger wrote: A shame indeed - but massively over-hyped by the Daily Wail. If you look 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. 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. That's about right. We've been in to the shop in its present guise a few times, but have never found what we wanted at an acceptable price - if at all. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:18 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 "shop that has not changed in 115 years" I'm surprised they can't see the problem. Seems to me that the ought to be trading on the web as well as in the shoppe. Oh they do: http://www.periodhouseshops.com/catalogue.php So whats this bit about being unable to compete against the web? Are they putting themselves out of business? And what about the two other shops? Have you seen their prices? Make sure you're sitting down... -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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On 19/09/2012 12:43, JTM wrote:
In article , sm_jamieson wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 Just started an interview on R4 'You & Yours' I heard that and thought they had been reading uk.d-i-y |
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On 18/09/2012 20:31, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Similar near me... http://www.fleet-people.co.uk/shoppi.../business.html When I moved here, it took me a while to realise they stock just about everything, including lots of things I failed to find in the sheds. +1, one of my kids lives in Fleet and this was a welcome discovery on our first visit to their new house. |
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On Sep 19, 7:16*pm, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote: In article o.uk, * * * * "Dave Liquorice" writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:18 -0700 (PDT), Man at B&Q wrote: Its a shame this shop is closing. I'll have to pop in before it goes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204952 "shop that has not changed in 115 years" I'm surprised they can't see the problem. Seems to me that the ought to be trading on the web as well as in the shoppe. Oh they do: http://www.periodhouseshops.com/catalogue.php So whats this bit about being unable to compete against the web? Are they putting themselves out of business? And what about the two other shops? Have you seen their prices? Make sure you're sitting down... -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] Certainly the lighting stuff is unlikely to all have been " cast in their own foundry" , how much for braided cable , the much missed Dunns of Blair St in Edinburgh was genuine ironmongers that went afetr 140 odd years, sheet metal sold by weight, Ask for 5mm bolts ? get a patient list of questions length? head , slotted, pozidrive, philips, hex, hex socket,anti-tamper? You need metric fine or coarse? Steel, stainless steel, brass? Black japanned, bright zinc plated , chromium plated , nickel plated.. Then they`d go away, down into depths of building to retrieve the 6 bolts you were after, then wrapped them in a page of old yellow pages kept on counter for the purpose. and cahrge you the 36p + VAT. Period House reminds me of Italian leather jacket shop also around Edinburgh, the ill starred Mr Toscana appeared to be having a `Divorce Sale` at least annualy for several years from different premises... Cheers Adam |
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