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Osita puts trade back in frame
Hartlepool Mail
|May 08, 2025
A new picture framing shop has opened in town just weeks after a well-known shopkeeper announced his retirement from the same trade.
Osita Kingsley Nze, 56, has opened his business in Murray Street, in Hartlepool, not long after after Jimmy Gettings, of nearby La Mirage, finished working at the age of 84.
Jimmy, who was widely believed to have been the town’s oldest shopkeeper, first took up picture framing in 1990 and had been preserving people’s mementos for almost 35 years before he announced his retirement in February.
After meeting Kingsley, a keen picture framer himself, Jimmy was able to share his wisdom and know that Murray Street would once again have a shop dedicated to framing mementos and treasures.
This story is from the May 08, 2025 edition of Hartlepool Mail.
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