by Judith | Jun 4, 2024 | History
In these days of social media is local advertising becoming a thing of the past, discuss. Whilst digging into the history of the business I have found that more recent generations of the Byrnes have spent very little on advertising, preferring the power of word of...
by Judith | Sep 3, 2022 | History
Sounds like the start of a 1970s end of the pier joke, you might think, but read on. We are fortunate to still have in our possession a selection of beautiful leather-bound early sales ledgers for D. Byrne & Co., the earliest dating back to between the two world...
by Judith | Aug 18, 2022 | History
I’m sure I am correct in saying that our shop sign is pretty much unique and has been in situ since the beginning of the business, see the photos from the 1890s. It remains one of the oldest shop frontages in Clitheroe, unchanged through the decades and a link to the...
