I mean proper ones, where you can get realy old stuff that B+Q just don't have. Like grate bars for an old Rayburn. Or imperial nuts and bolts, axe handles, grappling hooks! and 'modern' showers from the turn of the 20/ 21 century.
Locally I offer Mills Hardware in Ammanford and Romero's on Station Rd, Llanelli. Both are always friendly and brilliantly helpful. Romero's window display currently includes more than one type of Tomahawk, multiple axes and hatchets and a katana type sword. Mills' shop has not changed the window display in all the time that I can recall. I've lived here for over twenty years. The shop is bare boards and smells of creosote, oil and wood and is blooming fantastic. Mrs Mills still occasionally appears, like a matriarch overseeing her kingdom but nowadays it is almost always her son serving.
But the best, the very, very best in the county surely has to be Towy Works, The Quay, Carmarthen. I mean, for goodness sakes even the address is cool. Park at your peril on a high tide...
always puts me in mind of fettling/tinkering/pottering around in the garage.
