Four Candles...if this shop doesn't sell it, it doesn't exist.
I'd have loved to have time for a poke around in this Aladin's Tardis of a shop.
Just looking at the window displays; from wheelbarrows to cuddly toys, Airfix model kits, garden forks, cake tins and Calour gas, walking boots...and no doubt, candles.
I found this place rather heart warming. I thought this sort of shop had gone forever, replaced by the usual faceless big names, (themselves now struggling due to online shopping) but it shows the remoteness of Chagford from the big retail centres and hopefully the loyalty of their customers who know what a treasure they have in their midst.
And if anywhere sells four individual candles and fork handles, this is the place.
(To the uninitiated, 'Four Candles' refers to a 'Two Ronnie's' comedy sketch from the mid 1970s, and perhaps the most famous British comedy sketch of all time. A masterpiece of misunderstanding between a customer and a shop keeper in a hardware store, and the frustrations caused by the English language. Well worth tracking down if you are into clever wordplay.)
Four Candles...if this shop doesn't sell it, it doesn't exist.
I'd have loved to have time for a poke around in this Aladin's Tardis of a shop.
Just looking at the window displays; from wheelbarrows to cuddly toys, Airfix model kits, garden forks, cake tins and Calour gas, walking boots...and no doubt, candles.
I found this place rather heart warming. I thought this sort of shop had gone forever, replaced by the usual faceless big names, (themselves now struggling due to online shopping) but it shows the remoteness of Chagford from the big retail centres and hopefully the loyalty of their customers who know what a treasure they have in their midst.
And if anywhere sells four individual candles and fork handles, this is the place.
(To the uninitiated, 'Four Candles' refers to a 'Two Ronnie's' comedy sketch from the mid 1970s, and perhaps the most famous British comedy sketch of all time. A masterpiece of misunderstanding between a customer and a shop keeper in a hardware store, and the frustrations caused by the English language. Well worth tracking down if you are into clever wordplay.)