READ MORE: Brighton’s beloved hardware store and locksmith Dockerills to close after 109 years<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n The first iteration of the beloved store opened in 1915 in Edward Street before moving to the Church Street premises.\n<\/p>\n
\n Marrying into the family back in the eighties, Ryan reflected on how much the business has changed.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “It was a gold mine that shop, I mean it was busy from 8am until 5.30pm with cash just pouring into the till.”\n<\/p>\n
\n But with the introduction of bigger hardware chains, slowly but surely, the cash flow at Dockerills ran dry and Ryan is hoping to go back to something more positive.\n<\/p>\n
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Ryan is happy to be serving customers in the new location (Image: NQ staff)\n<\/p>\n
\n He said the closure was sad but inevitable: “It’s a shame it happened.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Times change and we’ve had to adapt with it but weirdly there is still this sort of grab for a bit of authentic old-style shopping.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Many Brighton locals hold fond memories of Dockerills, which Ryan is hoping to ignite once again with the new and “quirky” little shop.\n<\/p>\n
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The inside of Dockerills has a nostalgic feel! (Image: NQ staff)\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s not all pristine,” he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s a bit like pick and mix.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ryan feels that in the modern day, the hardware store suits a smaller shop serving the community.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “That is something people don’t do enough of these days.”\n<\/p>\n
\n After the closing of the old larger shop, Ryan had missed meeting different customers and people coming into the shop and having a chat.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “People like the idea of having Dockerills back on the high street.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Owner of Store Next Door, Ceri Lones, has had the shop since 2019 and with almost eight years under her belt, she says she has built a loyal base of customers.\n<\/p>\n
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Ceri has managed the Store Next Door since 2019 (Image: NQ staff)\n<\/p>\n
\n She has been living in Brighton for many years and has used Dockerills’ services many times.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “Everyone loves them, including myself, so it was a no brainer.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I have lots of people coming in and wanting to speak to Ryan.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Currently popular services include garden tool sharpening and key cutting, which are available during the shop’s opening hours of Monday to Saturday from 9am until 5.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formerly located in a large and much loved shop on Church Street, the hardware store Dockerills has recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}