Brian Dixon wrote:i remember going in there for a pound of nails and a left handed screwdriver.
There was something unique about hardware stores of the past that always seemed to smell of paraffin and stocked virtually everything. If you couldn't find what you needed in your own shed load of items that you had saved, 'just in case they come in handy,' they invariably had them!
Hardware shops are the Aycliffe posho's name for shops that we knew as Ironmongers!
