Changing Face

Many businesses have closed because of financial difficulties, family feuds, or death. The ‘Wrigleys shop’, as locals affectionately call it, features a dusty, fading window display of giant packets of chewing gum. They lie untouched since the sprightly, twinkly-eyed 83-year-old owner finally shut up shop in 1994. Over the years, the traditional ice cream parlour has been replaced with a powder blue coffee shop, the old library is now a community arts centre and the pie and mash shop has become a Chinese take away.