Last updated at 13:58, Wednesday, 01 August 2012

SHOPS close their doors or change ownership very quickly these days but the passing of a real local institution still causes us to pause and think.

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Today’s set of pictures were taken by Barrow photographer Roy Chatfield before the long-established Ulverston grocers Rogers and Tyson closed in January 1998.

Denis Rogers was a member of the third generation of his family to own the store.

When closure plans were announced, he told the Evening Mail: “This place has been in my family since 1902 and it was a grocers before that.”

One of its most popular products was Wabethwaite Cumberland sausage, selling 180lbs per week.

Supermarket competition, changing shopping habits and town centre car parking charges were among reasons for the end of trading at the traditional shop on the corner of Market Street and Brogden Street.

The store and its warehouses were bought by Wainvale.

Dodds Florists was to expand into the store, with the rear stores and an old gas showroom wanted for a new Boots development.

Fixtures and fittings from the historic shop were later sold for £2,500.

The firm had a Grade II Listed warehouse in Buxton Place, Ulverston, which was built between 1832 and 1850.

It had a timber gravity operated hoist mechanism to raise boxes or sacks from horse-drawn wagons to the upper storage levels.

John Black, owner of Ulverston’s J G Black Polymers had the warehouse restored by Greenlane Archaeology and it now bears a blue landmark plaque.

First published at 13:57, Wednesday, 01 August 2012
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