Heaps of sadness as town's ‘treasure trove’ is up for sale

STATIONER HAS BEEN SUPPLYING PAINT BRUSHES, PASTIMES, ‘WARMTH, KINDNESS AND INSPIRATION’ FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS

- By OSCAR FISHER

A SHOP that has remained a time capsule of all things brilliant from years gone by, is to close after almost a century in business.

Heaps stationers, in Long Eaton, opened on the busy junction between Main Street and Station Road in 1930, and has survived a world war, the rise of online shopping and the coronavirus pandemic.

It was opened by a Mr Heap, who owned it until 1955, before it was sold to a Mr Hooley, who ran it until 1979.

The shop was known for staying true to its roots, with people acknowledging its fixtures and fittings had “barely changed” over all these years.

Estate agents Robert Ellis shared a listing for the building’s freehold earlier this month, describing it as a “well-known local building used for the last 100 years as a stationery shop”

It added the building provides a development opportunity as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) that could also be kept as a retail unit with flats above.