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Wales Online
Wales Online
Jake Meeus-Jones & Steven Smith

Inside timewarp shop that's barely changed in a century as closure looms

A beloved shop that has remained unchanged for a century is closing down - leaving locals gutted. Moore and Toop opened first opened in 1923 and still looks largely the same as it did back then.

But Ernest Clothier, who became owner in 1969, has decided it's finally time to shut up shop. He described the sale of the property as the "end of an era".

Ernest, 77, said: "Everybody's been saying, 'What are we going to do without you?' - even people that don't shop here. But I'm creeping towards 80 and I want to retire. Time is time, isn't it?"

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