{"id":588729,"date":"2025-11-23T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:27:11","slug":"sheffield-paint-shop-to-close-after-more-than-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588729\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield paint shop to close after more than 75 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Bradbury said competition from high street chains was another factor in the move, adding they often lacked the same expertise and knowledge as independents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s very few shops like ours left, maybe one other in Sheffield, and that&#8217;s really sad,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was still in touch with John Carrack, who supported his decision to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">International tourists have previously visited the shop due to its connection to Paul Carrack, Mr Bradbury said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Working there has meant everything to me, and it&#8217;s a very sad time, but I have to think of me and my family &#8211; it has been very, very stressful over the last two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Bradbury said competition from high street chains was another factor in the move, adding they often lacked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588729","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-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115599013887495484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588729","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=588729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}