Michael Stasik has been selling newspapers outside of TJ’s on London Road for the last 12 years.
The 70-year-old could previously be found outside John Lewis at its old premises in Liverpool city centre before he relocated in 2010. The John Lewis site, he says, was regarded as one of the best for sales in Liverpool, but there was similar potential outside one of Liverpool’s oldest department stores up the hill at the top end of town.
For a time this proved to be true, but as the years went by, the same numbers of people did not. The promise of the area waned in line with what many see as a managed decline of London Road - once a thriving thoroughfare of draperies, shoe shops and clothing stores.
