Patricia Cook is selling her shop Haywards in Wayte Street, Cosham after 65 years and started working there when she was 15 years old.
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00:00 I'm Patricia Cook.
00:02 Patricia, tell me where we are and what is going to be happening here.
00:07 I'm now 80 and I've decided to finish with my business.
00:12 And I'm now getting rid of all my stock and I'm going to retire.
00:21 I've been here for 65 years.
00:24 And tell me where we are?
00:26 I'm at Hayworth's 18 Wake Street.
00:30 So tell me some of the memories you've had here over those 65 years.
00:35 When I left school, my dad decided that he would have to start running a shop.
00:42 And there was nobody else to run it but me.
00:45 So I left school immediately.
00:47 And the next day I was in charge of a shop.
00:51 And it was years of me, not long after the war, trying to sell things that people did in their spare time.
01:00 And a lot of the ladies didn't go to work at all, so they spent their time making things, painting.
01:06 I did art, painting and cane making things and making their own teddies.
01:14 Then I went on to being a fish and tackle shop.
01:17 And I did fish and tackle for about 20 years.
01:20 Radworms and maggots and everything.
01:23 And then I started being a second hand shop.
01:29 Which was very busy and I did that for maybe 40 years.
01:35 Tell me what you'll miss about the shop.
01:39 I'll miss meeting and talking to people.
01:42 Because I've always had someone to talk to. And being at home, just my husband, there won't be a mountain of nice people to talk to.
01:50 They're very kind, helping people. And everybody's always wanted to help me.
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