The model shop in Fratton Road, previously known as Fratton Bargain Shop, has been open since 1957. Brian and Ann Salt are planning to retire, while intermittently attending trade shows across the country. Searches to find new owners failed to materialise. Mr Salt, who bought the shop from his father in 1995, and owned it since said even though it was time to go despite his emotional attachment to the shop. He said: ‘I’m upset that the shop is closing, and regular customers are not going to have their source of supply for modelling materials. ‘It is a bit upsetting, and we open seven days a week so people can have what they want when they want it,
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