Myddleton Road currently seems to lack zest. The street does not seem to contain life any more, it just rots away.
But something in this road which is taking that rather literally, is the infamous 'George Moore Menswear' shop. Decaying, dated clothing garments remain rather neatly arranged in the front window display, you cannot see through its door and the place looks as if it could collapse any minute.
This enigmatic and quite visually spooky premise is owned by Brian Moore, who took over the shop in 1969 when his father died. He ran the shop ever since, all the way up until the late 1990s, when he decided to call it a day as he says "things were getting desperate" and he was "getting old", in an interview with the Daily Mail.
However, the man could not find it in his heart to clear out the shop, so left things as they were on the last day of business. I can confirm that he lived in the rooms above the store until 2011, but I am not aware of his living arrangements at this current moment.
The story is quite an emotional one: a tale of attachment to a something passed down a generation and the inability to let something so precious to you go.
by Rory Edwards, Young Reporter
