Family-run Glastonbury hardware store closes after 99 years
A Somerset couple are marking their golden wedding anniversary by closing a hardware shop their family has run for 99 years.
Rod, 75, and Anita Curtis, 71, will shut the doors on Glastonbury's A W G Curtis & Son for the final time on Friday.Mrs Curtis said: "I've loved every minute."But Mrs Curtis explained that the job had become harder over time and they were often up until after two in the morning."It's hard work to run it now," she told BBC Radio Somerset. "We have to collect everything - we don't have anything delivered.
Before the couple took over running the store in Benedict Street in 1973, Mr Curtis' father had run it for 49 years. The couple will continue to live in the premises although will no longer have to endure the bell going off 365 days a year, Mrs Curtis explained. She revealed that one year a pub rang them just before 22:00 GMT on Christmas Eve to say they had run out of gas.
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