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About us
Let's go back to 1975.
We started out in Budleigh Salterton at Norman's Supermarket - now Norman Crescent. We offered the standard key cutting, repairs and carpet cleaner hire.
The blue machine we have inside of this shop is the exact same machine that we use today, and it's still going strong. We had it imported from France and it was quite a challenge getting it here!
The picture above was taken sometime in the 80s and has been upscaled using AI which is why some of the posters look a bit wrong as the original picture was damaged.
Heading to the 1990s now and in 1994, Tesco Superstore opened on Salterton Road and Normans began to decline in use. It eventually was turned into a Co-Op and then finally closed down. In 2006, it became a housing estate which is Norman Crescent.
What Norman's looked like.
There are very few pictures of Norman's - but this one shows the main store, with Boyne Road and Jocelyn Road to the right. The site now houses Norman Crescent.
Going back even further.
This is an excellent photo of Budleigh Salterton railway station. You can see that the railway line passed directly through what was the car park for Normans and what is now houses. Note: the image was upscaled with AI.
Moving to Exmouth.
We moved to Albion Street once Norman's had closed it's doors for good. We stayed there for around 20 years and had become one of the go to places for key cutting and shoe repairs.
In 2016 the business was handed down a generation in the family and had introduced a new service - engraving.
We quickly became a local supplier of engraved goods for local businesses, groups, schools and charities.
After Albion Street.
In 2020, we had realised we had outgrown the little shop in Albion Street and had plans to re-locate to the recently emptied Thomas Cook store, however, this was also the year we had to close our doors due to the pandemic which had stalled us in moving.
At the end of 2020, we had successfully moved to our new store, which was just 50 yards away from Albion Street so it was easy for people to still find us.
Since then we had the chance to begin selling more gifts and homeware as well as expand our engraving services by introducing new machines. We also sell our engraved items online, expanding our expertise country wide.
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