AN INDEPENDENT REMEMBERS AN INDEP AN INDEPENDENT REMEM
MBERS
“CHARACTER M
ay 1982 and I was painting the new ceiling right above where the cutting bench used to be. On
the radio I was listening to news that HMS Sheffield had been attacked by an Exocet missile in the Falklands conflict. I’ll never forget where I was, nor the feeling of devastation.
As for the bench, its top boards e made fr
BUILDING STUFF”
Final renova tions and stocking the shelves ready f or the grand opening – our independent takes a step back in time with part 24 of his stories from the shop floor .
were made fr om Columbian pine, with chunky
four-inch square
legs held together by some very capable woodworking joints. That was now out in the yard, where future cutting of timber and boards would be like playing snooker in a broom cupboard. Just one compromise, hopefully to be offset by increased footfall and turnover of the other stock, once we’d opened the new shop.
Memories of the cutting shop,
as it was, r emind me of the time the landlord of the Cutty Sark pub across the road tackled us about selling a can of Nitromors to a lad he’d thrown out, who’d then poured
own out, who’d then pour
it over the roof of the landlord’s Volvo. I explained that yobbos didn’t go into shops to buy WMIs (weapons for malicious intent); they
Vo
(weapons for malicious intent); th stole them, and our stocks were kept
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