Wednesday, November 21, 2012

My kind of shop


Having moved back to Yorkshire nearly two years ago I'm amazed at how the county has changed and improved since I last lived around here 40 or so years ago.
Prior to moving to France I lived in the south of England, in Berkshire to be precise, for about 20 years. As southern readers will appreciate, you can get a little blasé at all the goodies available to you, especially living so close to London, and you can develop the notion that the sun only shines on the home counties.
Well, we were out and about the other day and went exploring in Northallerton. My memory of the town was pretty bleak but some local friends had told us about a really good shop called Lewis and Cooper. Boy were they right. It's an amazing place, full of all the goodies basics that are difficult to find elsewhere. A treasure trove of nice things, a cornucopia of stuff to spoil yourself with, my kind of shop. With good reason it's known as the Fortnum and Masons of the north. They've even got one in Harrogate, which we didn't know about, but it isn't very big compared to the huge Aladdin's cave in Northallerton.
If you can't think of what to buy me this year they sell on-line.  As a friend of mine says, 'just mentioning it like.'

2 comments:

  1. Yorkshireman = Scotsman with the generosity removed.

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  2. Lucky you.
    We live in a bit of a retail wasteland - the best shop we could offer was the Co-op, surrounded by Poundland, Poundstretcher, Argos and Primark. Now though we have a mini Debenhams......class at last.

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