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Picture courtesy Yorkshire Post Newspapers

Shutting up shop

In 1988 Neil Griffin took over the hardware store in the village of Clifton near York and for more than sixteen years he's been providing the local residents with coal for their barbecues, switches for their walls and keys for their locks. But Neil is now 60 and has decided it's time to shut up shop, to the consternation of his customers.

Lesley Hilton went to Neil's closing-down party.


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