26-01-2021, 11:13 PM
Stories of old nut and bolt shops.
I used to stock from a little shop, frog island road. Leicester. 25 years ago.
When I say little shop it was arckrights, only smaller. And the owners had far more colourful language. A mid terrace house. The front room being the counter. Metric was stored in the back room. Living area upstairs. All the bsf and whit were down in the cellar.
I'd go in when I needed about 10 to 20 different boxes of nuts and bolts, helicoyles.
Some of the stock had been there so long, they would often open a box. To find things were starting to rust from the 30 year old label inside. And offer it as a freebie.
SADLY ALL GONE.
tony.
I used to stock from a little shop, frog island road. Leicester. 25 years ago.
When I say little shop it was arckrights, only smaller. And the owners had far more colourful language. A mid terrace house. The front room being the counter. Metric was stored in the back room. Living area upstairs. All the bsf and whit were down in the cellar.
I'd go in when I needed about 10 to 20 different boxes of nuts and bolts, helicoyles.
Some of the stock had been there so long, they would often open a box. To find things were starting to rust from the 30 year old label inside. And offer it as a freebie.
SADLY ALL GONE.
tony.