A shop owner on Lark Lane said business is booming despite the cost of living crisis but admitted it can be exhausting.
In April last year, Kate Graham, 29, moved from her vintage clothing stall in Red Brick Market to her own shop The Retro Room. She was viewing a flat on The Lane, which she now lives in, and walked past a woman painting a building and she saw potential.
Kate said: “She [the owner] had 100 applicants, but she wanted retail, she didn’t want food, and there were only four retail applicants, and she gave it to me. That was two years ago, I had to wait a year for the shop to be done because it was literally falling down when she inherited it.”
