The story of Northwich character Joe and his 'Aladdin's Cave' shop
ONE of Northwich’s best-known characters was Joe Allman. He had an old junk shop near the bottom of Winnington Hill. The shop dates to 1630, when it was built as two cottages. When turned into a shop, it was one of the oldest buildings in Northwich and had a thatched roof. Joe was well known as ‘Old Joe’ and had traded there for 57 years, with the shop being crammed with junk of all sorts. He bought the shop in 1904; before that, he traded from Cross Street. The poor and not so poor of old Northwich would frequent the shop where items from pots, pans and kitchen equipment sh...
Source: northwichguardian.co.uk