No trip to Anglesey is complete without a visit to Evans Bros. – the wonderful, comprehensively stocked hardware shop on two floors in Menai Bridge, with its acres of boxes on shelves and wooden floor:-
No trip to Anglesey is complete without a visit to Evans Bros. – the wonderful, comprehensively stocked hardware shop on two floors in Menai Bridge, with its acres of boxes on shelves and wooden floor:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
What is it about old-fashioned hardware stores? Evans Bros looks fabulous. We have an equivalent in our neighboring town of Concord, Massachusetts: Vanderhoof Hardware. And there’s another in the town where we vacation each year on Cape Cod: Baskins Hardware, in Orleans. There’s a picture book to be compiled…
Maybe the owners of hardware stores are constitutionally anti-modernisation. Charles
Bute Hardware in Rothesay, Isle of Bute has mantles for Tilley Lamps and many other delights.