C.R Birch & Son, Est. 1909

This shop will need no introduction to the local blippers; it's a particularly good and old-fashioned ironmongers/hardware shop of the type that seems to have everything and the helpful staff with encyclopaedic knowledge to go with it. On one of my first visits - in search of a watering can rose - I asked, half jokingly, if they had them in metric and imperial sizes. They did.