Adams Ironmongers

Adams Ironmongers is one of those little shops that seems to have been there forever and has never changed because its never needed to — it even gets away with still having an 021 phone number displayed on its sign. It sits quietly on a corner next to Holland House Infant School, plying its trade.
Adams is a bit like a Tardis — it’s certainly painted the right colours — because when you go in what looks like a tiny shop you find it to be an emporium of pretty much anything you could need in the course of your DIYing — or even your ironmongery. Shelves and boxes filled with screws, bolts, nuts, washers, drill-​bits, locks, latches, gaffer tape and most more (anytime the snow comes, they immediately start selling orange plastic sledges — I had one when I was little and it was great, especially when it snowed) are presided over by friendly and dilligent chaps who know what they’re talking about even if you don’t.