For decades, you couldn’t get a stall at Birkenhead market for “love nor money”, according to Nick Adcock.
“Once upon a time in this market you could have got everything,” he says, noting how it was a case of “dead man’s shoes” waiting for a space to open up - such was the demand. The 57-year-old has been running his framing business inside the historic building for the last 12 years, following his mum who also had her own clothing business before him.
But the family line is likely to end there with Nick soon to give up his tenancy. Rather than ‘dead man’s shoes’, these days it appears the old market is dying itself.
