The Stockport family who have sold their shop after running it for 60 years

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The family behind a Stockport hardware shop are selling up — after running the Shaw Heath store for 60 years. Handy Hardware, in Davenport, has been run by June Boole and her family for 60 years.

They opened their hardware shop in 1962, and bought the property in the early 1970s. READ MORE: Seventeen people arrested as police carry out dawn raids across Stockport After decades of serving the community, the shop is closing and will be renovated by its new owners.

Customers will know the business for having floor-to-ceiling shelving packed to the rafters with stock — and a friendly face behind the counter in June. “It was cracking,” June told the Manchester Evening News. “It was an empty shop so we started from nothing.

I enjoyed every minute of it. “It took a while to get it going. I was there with my two girls because my husband died after a year. “It was an experience, I was learning as the girls were learning at school.” Having run the shop until very recently, June has seen the landscape of the neighbourhood and town change dramatically, she says.