closing time

Closing Time: A Nation of Shopkeepers is a collection of photographs of British shopkeepers by UK-based photographer Nick Dawe. Like New York and so many other places, single shops in Britain are dying out. Nick's photos help to tell part of their story. Loui's Caff, Britton Ferry, South Wales:

H.E. Harrington, Hardware and Ironmongers, Broadstairs, Kent:

Bosun's Cafe, Worthing, West Sussex: 

This one actually reminds me of me as I started working as a shopkeeper in my family's fruit and vegetable business when I was twelve but years before that had been helping mum serve customers who would come to our previous shop (in the backyard). 

Photos: Nick Dawe. Check out Nick's 'Roadside Britain' photographs, too.