A woman was left devastated after learning that a shop has lost three historic pocket watches belonging to her late father that it was repairing. Tricia Knight visited The Watch Hospital, in Grimsby, shortly before Christmas to have repairs done on three pocket watches that belonged to her father, grandfather and great-grandfather, as well as a gold fob chain with pictures of her great grandfather and his sister.
All of the items had belonged to her late father, and the watches were each engraved with her maiden name of Campbell. She had intended to include them in a memory box to pass down through generations of her family..
But each time Tricia returned to the store to collect the items, she was told that there would be a delay. On Sunday, March 12, she found that the premises were closed, with a note stating that the business had gone into liquidation.
