{"id":202285,"date":"2025-06-21T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202285\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T10:23:12","slug":"tiny-shop-thats-been-dubbed-little-spain-by-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202285\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny shop that&#8217;s been dubbed &#8216;little Spain&#8217; by customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The store is loved by local celebrities including Meatball Molly, Darren Till and Leanne Campbell<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_The-Cleaning-Hub-in-Norris-Green-pictured-Sam-and-Lana-Photo-by-Colin-Lane.jpg\" alt=\"The Cleaning Hub in Norris Green pictured Sam and Lana with family. Photo by Colin Lane\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Cleaning Hub in Norris Green pictured Sam and Lana with family. Photo by Colin Lane(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Tucked away at the end of a busy Liverpool street is a store offering something different. Dubbed &#8220;little Spain&#8221; by its customers, The Cleaning Hub sells a range of international cleaning products, including items from Spain, Italy and Romania, as well as its own brand of items including wax melts, hoover disks and shake and vac products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The tiny store on Broad Lane in Norris Green opened in May 2023 and caters to proud home-owners who &#8220;want their home to smell like their hotel on holiday.&#8221; Owned by Sam, 33 and his partner Lana Sergeant, 31, the shop is loved by local celebrities including Meatball Molly, Darren Till, Paul Kelly, and Leanne Campbell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The couple, who have two children, opened a second shop eight months ago on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/warrington\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Warrington<\/a> Road in Whiston, following the success of the first business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Describing the family-run business as an &#8220;overnight success&#8221;, Sam told <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the ECHOLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the ECHO<\/a>: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t know what it was going to go like when we opened our first shop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_The-Cleaning-Hub-in-Norris-Green-pictured-Sam-and-Lana-Photo-by-Colin-Lane.jpg\" alt=\"Sam and Lana opened the store in 2023 following an &quot;overnight idea&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Sam and Lana opened the store in 2023 following an &#8220;overnight idea&#8221;(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;There was no footfall in the area at all. Since we&#8217;ve opened there&#8217;s a lot more people in the area &#8211; people coming in after the school run, people coming in for a cup of tea. We&#8217;ve just climbed the ladder in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;People call it &#8216;little Spain&#8217; when they come in. When you walk in, it&#8217;s like walking into a supermarket in Spain. People go on holiday and they want their home to smell like the hotel they stayed in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the products that pretty much everywhere in Spain uses. Some people can&#8217;t make it over to Marbella &#8211; but they can always have their houses smelling like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sam said the family-run business is &#8220;more than a shop&#8221;. He said: &#8220;Our door is open to any one of the public. If people are having a bad day, they&#8217;ll call in and have a little chat to us. We&#8217;re just normal people from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/huyton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Huyton<\/a>; our door is always open. If you&#8217;ve got a problem, just come in and see us and we&#8217;ll put the kettle on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750501392_874_0_The-Cleaning-Hub-in-Norris-Green-pictured-Sam-and-Lana-Photo-by-Colin-Lane.jpg\" alt=\"The Cleaning Hub sells a range of cleaning products from all over the world\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The Cleaning Hub sells a range of cleaning products from all over the world(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He added: &#8220;We work really closely with the community. We sponsor the under-11 local football team, L11 Athletic, and we do a lot of fundraising round Christmas and Easter time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">When asked why he decided to open the store, the former valeter said: &#8220;It was just one of them. I can&#8217;t really explain it. The idea just came into my head overnight and it took off for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We enjoy working around other people, that&#8217;s what gives us a thrill. Every day is different and every customer is different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/rise-spanish-cleaning-products-across-26207783\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"ECHO reported on the rise in Spanish cleaning productsLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">ECHO reported on the rise in Spanish cleaning products<\/a> back in 2023, when a number of suppliers began stocking the products both for home-use and wholesale with pop-up stalls across the city centre and wider Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Like several other specialist retailers in Merseyside, Sam stocks a range of the products in both his <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/norris-green\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Norris Green<\/a> and Whiston stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One of his favourites is Kifra laundry perfume from Romania, mainly for its &#8220;conversation starting&#8221; quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sam said: &#8220;There\u2019s many things I like about this product &#8211; the long lasting smell, and it always starts a conversation in the room on what products we have used when washing our clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;This has become one the best selling products at The Cleaning Hub.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The store is loved by local celebrities including Meatball Molly, Darren Till and Leanne CampbellThe Cleaning Hub in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,48168,1620,246,16,15,41031],"class_list":{"0":"post-202285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-norris-green","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-shopping","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-whiston"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114720866969880812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}