It may seem strange for people looking to for someone fix their broken TVs to ask a bike mechanic, but Threadgold's isn't your usual cycle shop.
Having occupied the same premises on Hollyhedge Road, Wythenshawe, for 91-years, it would be fair to say the local community have come to rely on it, and not just for bikes. The shop has been run by husband and wife, Paul and Caroline Briggs since 2010, who took over from the original Threadgold family who had been in the cycle business since 1905.
To put that into perspective, the first commercially successful safety bike – the rear wheel chain-driven bike design we know today – had only been around 20-years; before that you were taking your life in your hands up a Penny Farthing. And it's Threadgold's long history in Manchester that's to blame for the non-cycling related requests they still get to this day.
