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Warwicks in Wellingborough is closing its doors for good after opening in 1868
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00:00Yeah, I mean, it's been absolutely fantastic the support we've had from the customers coming in to see us, coming in to say, cards, presents, people have come in from miles around. Obviously, we've been incredibly busy, we should expect, but we're still here tomorrow, Saturday the 28th until 4.30.
00:17What are we going to do, normally they say, when you're gone? Where are we going to go? And you've let us down by closing down. And I said, well, we were still profitable, successful, well patronised, but I want to retire and my youngsters and my nephew don't want to do it. So all things have to come to a good end.
00:38Absolutely ballistic. We could never imagine we were going to sell as much stock as we have. It's been fantastic. People have come in and bought not only summer stuff, whatever they've got, they'll buy for the next few months and they've supported us and it's been great.
00:54First of all, thank you for your custom. Not only them, but sometimes three generations of customers. I had a guy in the other day who first came in the shop in 1952 to buy a school uniform with his mum and he's been coming in odd times ever since.
01:09So we've had a lot of customers been coming in for years and they come in and say, I used to come in with your dad, your granddad and you did my brother's wedding, you did our wedding.
01:17We did so many hire suits, thousands a year, you were doing hundreds of weddings and that message always used to go out to the guests, hire from Warwick's or hire from Warwick's. So we were still well patronised.

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