I've got one somewhere

[Fazz711]

Went to Cockermouth recently and they have a hardware shop very similar.
Even has a museum upstairs with all old tools and stuff.
Free to browse round.
I could have spent hours just looking at stuff.

 

[littlespark]

Need a wing-nut? 100 to choose from
Need some threaded rod? Look no further
Lugs and terminals, spades or forks? Yup, got the lot!

Why have I got that song from The Little Mermaid going round in my head….


I think a lot of small towns still have a hardware store like this.
My home town, they have an electricians that work out one of the main streets… not some fancy unit on the industrial estate. Stores, offices and workshop in one (could be 3) properties at the quiet end of the street…. And the shop at the other.

It’s a bit full now as they are a Euronics seller…. But once you get past the washing machines in the window…. You’re back to doormats, lightbulbs, flex, chain, string by the metre… or yard, possibly..

There’s a bare wooden staircase lined with the pik-a-pak items leading up to an alladins cave of all sorts…

And the obligatory brown coats



Of course, the same town has another, more modern hardware store that caters for a certain clientele…. Out in the business park… next to the Aldi

The Farmers

Blue water pipe and fittings… the nuts and bolts of every size…. Electric fence components…… there’s also a key cutting machine in the middle of it all.
Yellow and black power tools that aren’t quite dewalt…. Red power tools that aren’t quite Milwaukee and a range of hand tools that aren’t quite useful.


Weird thing is…. They’re both called Stewart’s.

 

[KungFuTurkeyLeg]

We have one in Harrogate. Floor to ceiling with random bits you never knew you needed

 

[pirate]

I also know of a wonderful emporium in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. It's called Brown's. Every pot pan and kettle, every camping accessory, nuts and bolts, all the stuff this thread has mentioned. That stuff is all on the right hand side as you enter, and spreads to the back shop too.
However, one real bonus is the counter on the left as you go in...
That's the off-sales!