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Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
It’s changed a bit. Most noticeably the big gap in the high street, where Richards used to be. It was burnt to the ground a few months ago.

Oh my gawd. I used to work in Richards on the ironmongery counter. If you bought a screwdriver there in about 1979 and were served by a gangly gormless English teenager - that was me.
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
It’s changed a bit. Most noticeably the big gap in the high street, where Richards used to be. It was burnt to the ground a few months ago.

Oh my gawd. I used to work in Richards on the ironmongery counter. If you bought a screwdriver there in about 1979 and were served by a gangly gormless English teenager - that was me.

You didn't leave a soldering iron on did you?
 

Pross

Über Member
Oh my gawd. I used to work in Richards on the ironmongery counter. If you bought a screwdriver there in about 1979 and were served by a gangly gormless English teenager - that was me.

I was in there regularly in those days but mainly in the toy department although we used to go to the bit out the back of the ironmonger section to get bits of packaging for pet bedding. My uncle worked in that section in more recent years before it closed.
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
I was in there regularly in those days but mainly in the toy department although we used to go to the bit out the back of the ironmonger section to get bits of packaging for pet bedding. My uncle worked in that section in more recent years before it closed.

Do you remember Charlie? He was a curmugeonly old guy who would hand-cut certain types of key, do tool repairs and other odd jobs. The bit out the back of the ironmongers was where he had his workshop. So while you were getting your pet bedding he may have stuck his head out to swear at you.

We younger members of staff were all a bit scared of him. I think the only words he spoke to me was when I took some mortice lock keys to him to be cut and said "they want 3 copies of each" to which he replied "greedy bastards".

He was probably a perfectly nice bloke, but that's my memory.
 

Pross

Über Member
Do you remember Charlie? He was a curmugeonly old guy who would hand-cut certain types of key, do tool repairs and other odd jobs. The bit out the back of the ironmongers was where he had his workshop. So while you were getting your pet bedding he may have stuck his head out to swear at you.

We younger members of staff were all a bit scared of him. I think the only words he spoke to me was when I took some mortice lock keys to him to be cut and said "they want 3 copies of each" to which he replied "greedy bastards".

He was probably a perfectly nice bloke, but that's my memory.

I think I vaguely remember him, I've got recollections of some bloke wearing a blue overall jacket.
 

VinSumRox

Senior Member
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Looking forward to seeing it in Edinburgh, not too far away!
 
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