Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

Mudgie

Mudgie

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Gramaisc said:
There were two incarnations of the hardware shop. I still have some tools I got in the late 70s from the first incarnation. I'm not sure when Marcus started up, possibly into the early 90s?
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And I think I remember Marcus's Weston Road shop being a grocers or greengrocers in the early 1970s.
I think Marcus was there by the early 1990s.
 
Gramaisc

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Mudgie said:
And I think I remember Marcus's Weston Road shop being a grocers or greengrocers in the early 1970s.
I think Marcus was there by the early 1990s.
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I lived on Tixall Road 1978 to '80 and the first hardware incarnation was still 'new' then. Marcus was working in London in the '80s, I would be surprised if he had the shop running much before 1990ish.
 
Trumpet

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Gramaisc said:
There were two incarnations of the hardware shop. I still have some tools I got in the late 70s from the first incarnation. I'm not sure when Marcus started up, possibly into the early 90s?
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Hoffman doesn't ring any bells. Perhaps the sons didn't take over when their father died. Was it closed for a while?
 
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Trumpet said:
Hoffman doesn't ring any bells. Perhaps the sons didn't take over when their father died. Was it closed for a while?
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I think it was shut for a while between the two incarnations, which were not connected. Marcus's father was head of Electrical Engineering at the Poly.

Hoffmann is one of his middle names, not his surname - or, at least, not the last part of his name...
 
Mudgie

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Gramaisc said:
I lived on Tixall Road 1978 to '80 and the first hardware incarnation was still 'new' then. Marcus was working in London in the '80s, I would be surprised if he had the shop running much before 1990ish.
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Thanks, so being "a grocers or greengrocers in the early 1970s" is quite possible then.
 
Mudgie

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Gramaisc said:
I think it was shut for a while between the two incarnations, which were not connected. Marcus's father was head of Electrical Engineering at the Poly.

Hoffmann is one of his middle names, not his surname - or, at least, not the last part of his name...
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Marcus Rene H0FFMANN DE VISME I think, and not the name I'd expect for one so vehemently opposed to the EU !
 
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Cue

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GNM67 said:
The old 'bed factory' shop is now a front for some heating/boiler spares website/ grow farm.
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They’re not very creative are they?

I’m not saying it’d be better legalised… but they could have a legitimate store with a cafe section, a proper grow setup, a regulated ventilation standards to ensure the smell doesn’t, safer product that’s been carefully cultivated, and they’d be paying tax.

Ok I’m saying it’d be better legalised.
 
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