I am old enough to remember the Ironmonger, the shop that sold almost anything you wanted for around the house.
Here could be found materials to repair windows, clean doorstep and catch flies.
Added to which, you could walk out with a gallon of paraffin, packets of Reckitt’s Crown Blue, two nails, three screws, and a ball of waxed string.
Of course, the traditional ironmongers lingered on into the 1980s and I regularly wandered down the one over the bridge on Wilbraham Road.
And closer to home there was always J Johnny’s on Beech Road, which not only had almost anything you wanted, but a bizarre pricing policy where sharpening a couple of knives would rarely cost the same.
But as the higher charge was always replaced by a lower one next time round, I rather thought it would all even itself out.
Not that the DIY shop on Barlow Moor Road has elastic prices. The washing baskets, UB40 and washing up bowls always cost the same and are always reasonably priced.
The current DIY has been there from I think 2015, before that it was SURE- SAVE, and before that Amazing Pound Store, while in 2008 it traded as Day 2 Day.
And that is the history lesson, to accompany what is really just one of the pictures I took last week.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; On Barlow Moor Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Added to which, you could walk out with a gallon of paraffin, packets of Reckitt’s Crown Blue, two nails, three screws, and a ball of waxed string.
Of course, the traditional ironmongers lingered on into the 1980s and I regularly wandered down the one over the bridge on Wilbraham Road.
And closer to home there was always J Johnny’s on Beech Road, which not only had almost anything you wanted, but a bizarre pricing policy where sharpening a couple of knives would rarely cost the same.
But as the higher charge was always replaced by a lower one next time round, I rather thought it would all even itself out.
Not that the DIY shop on Barlow Moor Road has elastic prices. The washing baskets, UB40 and washing up bowls always cost the same and are always reasonably priced.
The current DIY has been there from I think 2015, before that it was SURE- SAVE, and before that Amazing Pound Store, while in 2008 it traded as Day 2 Day.
And that is the history lesson, to accompany what is really just one of the pictures I took last week.
Location; Chorlton
Pictures; On Barlow Moor Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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