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si i l t ! 12 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, November 26th, •1981 DO-IT-YOURSELF


faster. . . . cheaper BETTER . . with an :


The job’s the


Advertising feature HEAVY DUTY STAPLE GUN


Shoots a staple wherever you’d drive a nail.. . . Into hardest, /4ln; to 9


woods, ply*wood, plastic and soft metals! 1001 uses. Uses 6. staple su e s from 1


/iein. and CEILTILE.; AVAILABLE FROM WELLGATE, CLITHEROE Tel. 26163 H IR E IT


YORK STREET SHOWROOMS CLITHEROE. Tel. 23414/24151


S. J. MOORE & SONS


HEATING AND PLUMBING ENGINEERS


CONGRATULATE HIRE-IT


ON THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW PR EM ISE S AT : WEllLGATE


PHILLIPS RED


ANCHORSi PHILLIPS


MASONRY ANCHORING SYSTEMS


available ^ from HIRE IT WELLGATE. CLITHEROE M ib le e fo a le M d)E n^ >tuino


COACH HOUSE COURT, QUEENSWAY, CLITHEROE TEL. CLITHEROE 27727


Congratulate.


KEN AND JEAN LORD on the opening of their


Fine, New Premises at Wellgate


We wish them continued success for the future


SHAWBRIDGE MILL CLITHEROE


Tel. 25142 BIRTWELL & CO., Printers


EXCELSIOR PRINTING WORKS SABDEN. Tel. PADIHAM 71264


.Lithographic Printers —Manufacturers of Multiple Sets — One-Time Carbon and NCR ARE PLEASED TO BE SUPPLIERS TO


HIRE IT — and wish Ken Lord every success for the . future


CERAMICA ITALIA LIMITED CLITHEROE TILE CENTRE


warmly welcomes HIRE IT to the Wellgate complex We are always available for all your tiling needs:


★ CASH AND CARRY WITH PERSONAL ★ EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR TILES ALL IN SERVICE


STOCK ★ DELIVERIES AT NO CHARGE


★ TILE FIXING AND DESIGN SERVICE * ADHESIVES—: WALL AND FLOOR. GROUT g AND COLOURING. TILE CUTTERS AVAILABLE N


★ CUTTING AND MITREING SERVICE


ALL UNDER ONE ROOF NEARLY V2 MILLION TILES— WITH AT LEAST 150 RANGES TO, CHOOSE FROM


WELLGATE & KING LANE, CLITHEROE Tel. 27127, •r M ’i \ , L ' ’' I ■AMBWWSS e H > PonalA eaters ■ WISHING


E V ER Y SU C C E S S TO KEN LORD AT


HIS NEW WELLGATE PREMISES


HEAD


Business in the blood


“HIRE IT” owner Ken Lord belongs to a Clitheroe family which has retail business in its blood.


shop in Moor Lane, which is still in the family to this day. Lord’s shoe shop was run for many years by Ken’s parents John and Lily and is now operated by his brother Bernard.


In ' 1900, his grandfather took over a shoe


ness, he certainly wasn’t short of sources and advice.


So when Ken decided to open his own busir Ken trained as a mechanical and production


engineer at night school and moved from Clitheroe to Padiham on his marriage to Jean in 1963. They both worked at the Mullard . Simonstone plant at the time and it was then th a t they established their link with the Padiham Round Table and Ladies’ Circle.


They are both former chairmen of their


respective organisations and Jean is currently North Lancashire area chairman of the Nation­ al Association of Ladies’ Circles.


lived at Edisford for six years before moving to Cheshire. After two years there, they returned to Clitheroe and moved into their current home in Park Avenue, with Ken taking up a post as a s s is tan t factory manager a t Lancaster Hosiery, where he worked for three years: before going into business by himself.


The couple moved to Clitheroe in 1968 and Now in his last year as a Round Tabler,


having reached the age of 40, Ken is a member of Clitheroe Golf Club and recently served on the Clitheroe Parish Church restoration com-' mittee. He is also involved with the Ribble Valley Hospice appeal and is to run a street- market to raise funds for the cause next summer.


(14) and Heather (11), both pupils at Moorland School.


He and Jean have two children — Stephen


HIRE or buy'— if. you are .looking for-tools'of .r anydescription then' J!Hire It,” which has ! recently i moved: to new • premises-; right in the.'i: centre of Clitheroe, is the firm for you.


'


Founded ■ and run ' by the summer we began to Clitheroe-born Mr,-Ken


. Lord, “Hire It” is next to “Ceramic Italia” in spa­ cious premises just off. Wellgate and offers an ex­ citing range o f ; products


move: into, the present building next to.. “Cerami-. ca Italia.” “It proved .ideal... . we -


more' than trebled our floorspace and' had the


for everyone from the be- • scope not only to display ginner to the professional, all the varieties of hire “We are here to serve,”


. mechanical engineer de­ cided to go into business on - his own account and started to look around to find what kind of services; were lacking in the area'. * -“Clitheroe was well served by most kinds, of


says Ken, and that is the philosophy by which. the business has been oper-; ated since it was founded in March 1979. v . ■ ... Then, Ken,- a trained.


equipment available but* also to develop: the sales.. side of: the : business — something which, the. li- / mited space at Whalley Road had made fairly dif-. ficult. ■ . V. ■ ■ • - “The people who hired,


equipment from us knew, that we sold-a number of our smaller items —, indeed it was through them that the sales side , started.


’ .


trades,” recalls Ken, “but quired about buying them it occurred to me that 0n a permanent basis and there was no specialist , hire shop in town.


“They hired tools, in- Se co n d shop


were beginning to do jobs around the house them­ selves, so I ' thought it would- be a. good idea to offer them the chance’ of acquiring the necessary specialised equipment rather than making do or borrowing from their neighbours.” Ken’s idea paid off.


“More and more people


this made us realise that the' scope'was there to expand the sales side.


ficult at Whalley Road: and it wasn’t until we moved to our new pre­ mises that we were able to.concentrate on increas­ ing our ranges.”


vantage of expanding the sales side of the business was that much of the equipment hire trade was


Ken said that the ad­ seasonal.


Within 15 months of the “Hire It” 1 business 'open­ ing at 61 Whalley Road, • Clitheroe, Ken opened a second shop in Nelson. : Offering the same hire


facilities as at Clitheroe, the Nelson shop has been managed from the start by Mr Roy Ashworth and e n jo y s ; a c o n s is te n t demand for tools and equipment from all kinds of handymen on the other side of Pendle.


Nelson shop proved ade- . quate for its purpose, the demand for equipment' in Clitheroe meant that Mr Lord had to start looking


B u t , w h e re a s th e -i


, for hew, bigger premises just 18 months after open­ ing in Whalley Road. “It was becoming imposs­ ible,” said Ken, '“There just wasn’t the room to run the business properly .and to satisfy the needs of all our customers.


“I was having: to store


stock at various places . . . space was a real problem. “So towards the end of


last year, I started to look for new premises and in


CONGRATULATIONS to HIRE IT ON THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW WELLGATE PREMISES .


WE ARE PLEASED TO BE SUPPLIERS OF GARDEN MACHINERY


Congratulate HIRE IT on their move to new and larger premises


WATERLOO ROAD, CUTHER0E. Tel. 23263


J CONGRATULATIONS AND EVERYSUCCESS TO K E N A N D J E A N L O R D O F


HIRE IT


ONTHE OPENING OF THEIR NEW SHOP AT . ,


WELLGATE ‘ FROM


PEDAL POWER


WADDINGTON ROAD, CLITHEROE Tel. 22066


THE COMPLETE HIRE SERVICE - Call in and pick up a price list


Also on display full range of


HAND AND POWER TOOLS etc. Local deliveries.


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* • «* T*' * O CASTLE STREET i MARKET PLACE , :. YORK STREET.


.WE ARE HERE


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A GENERAL view of Int he foreground are display is at the back.:


the shop, showing the tremendous variety of stock. Andrew industrial blow healers. The Hilka tools


/- E x p a n d in g :


b u s in e s s h e lp s .y o u through the peaks and- troughs of the hire busi­ ness,” he said.. “For ex­ ample, items like mixers arid other equipment for outdoor work are mainly re q u ire d d u r in g the summer, while the hea­


“A good strong sales “But ■ it was very. dif- ■


KEN sees to a customer’s needs while Jean deals with a telephone inquiry. On the left is the thoroughfare leading to Ceramica Italia.


ters that we hire out to. industry in the Blackburn, Burnley, Nelson and Clitheroe areas are, of course, limited to winter.” Ken also offers a shar-x


pening and repair service and come next spring he hopes to expand the range of garden tools and equip­


ment. ... “Hire I t” is a family


business started - by Ken and his wife Jean, who work as a team. Jean covers the ac­


' the shop when Ken is out . delivering or visiting cus­ tomers. They are great believers in the idea that a business benefits from


counts side of :the busi­ ness as well as running


" maintaining personal con­ tact with the customer. “By being directly in­


volved, you are giving the best possible service to th e most im p o r tan t- person . . ., the customer, and that is what business . j.-', all about.” . :•••••*. .. Ken is currently em­ ploying two youngsters on


temporary • work experi­ ence schemes - — one at


Clitheroe and the other at Nelson — and is busy in­ structing them on how to deal with customers, as well as supervising their work on minor repairs and service.


personal service,” said Ken, “and success in one field, .such as the hire side, leads to expansion of the other lines.


Aim to please “Our business relies', on


. . . always provided-that you have the roorrf to expand* of course.,


“One begets the .other ' ■ “If a customer leaves


here satisfied, he wilL return,' so even if we- don’t make a sale or hire out- an item on the cus­ tomer’s first visit, we always aim to please.


one comes in for a spare part that'we don’t stock, I will always try to obtain it or tell him where he


'“For instance, if some­


can buy that spare part. .“That way," hopefully,


when he needs something else, we will be the first people he calls on.” Ken is still busy establ­


BUILDING, plumbing, .


- decorating, garden­ ing,' car maintenance . . . whatever job you


■ have in mind, •'“Hire It” has the tools, you


. serve-' many - lo c a l firms which ’ find it


In this day and age o t . tight budgets in in­ d u s t ry , ’ “ Hire I t


need. ’ , ’ .


--u n e c o n om ic a l • to invest- in expensive -p ow e r to o ls , a n d


•p equipment - which has . . only limited’ use for th em . “ By h ir in g equipment; it ensures that it is in working


sh ire — along, the same lines at the Nelson opera­ tio n— and1 use Clitheroe


are'established in our new premises, I would like to •open a new shop or two elsewhere in East Lanca­


ishing‘his business at its new home, b u t th a t doesn’t preclude him from casting an optimistic eye into the future. “Eventually, when we


as a base. “That is> all in the


future, of course, but as long as we can continue to satisfy our customers’


Seeds, the opportunities will be there.” '’


Under one roof


“HIRE„ IT" owner Ken Lord- a?id his' neio neigh­ bour- Mr John Gregson, oumer of Ceramica Italia, the ■ tile specialists, have come up until an innova­ tive idea to help provide the best possible service for their respective cus­


tomers. .A tiled thoroughfare


; two premises to enable customers to browse in each shop without having


' to venture outside. ■ ■ “Both businesses will,


’. of course;■


;to enable them to find ■ their heed's under -one roof " said Mr Lord.


rim as separate 'entities, but ive thought it would be of-benefit to the customers


-continue to. be


has been built between the- main showooms of the


“Our customers hire anything from demol­ ition hammers, plan­ ers, w ate r pumps, welding equipment and ladders through to the smaller items such as drain rods, sledge hammers and clutch aligning tools.


“Although most of our customers are . men,


1 inquiries for th e ir husbands. :'- ■ .


- order w i th - all the n e c e s s a ry a t ta c h - ; ments to hand when needed,” said Ken.


i - ’ i iM i l iM ■ B


MANAG Roy As! array o Clithero


A POF


• On thi thaty


■ we do -find that the ladies call and make


“The piece . of . equip­ m e n t : m o s t , o f te n


hired by the ladies, however, is the carpet


• cleaner, which allows them to clean carpets and upholstery the way the professionals


. hand-tools' and socket sets. Industrial- blow


Also on show are power tools by Makita and 1 the renowned Hilka.


do.’


i heaters come with the - well-known An­ drews name and the Wagner e le c t r ic a l spray units are also on the shelves, along with Arrow staple guns.


• Fired J ' T kW 1


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• Contro .•< • Mainta ’ ' storesi -


A v a ila HIF


W E L : C L IT Tel: C lit l


Even the small but very . necessary household items such as screw­ drivers,. fuses, plugs, and light swjtches are on sale and the shop


Butane and propane • gas is on sale in vari­ ous sizes, along w ith ”: best-quality paraffin, suitable for-domestic, heaters.


' also has a complete range of “ s torm suits” for children and adults.


- • = WATERLOO TIMBER CO.


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