+1 for Mills in Barnsley. Never been let down.

One from my youth, Pollards in Bletchley.

I miss going in to Lion stores North Street, Southville

http://www.nortonironmonger.co.uk/

+1 for Fletchers in Waterfoot for their hardware shop and their builders yard, also Mercers on Pump St Blackburn for Festo tool porn and anything hardware/pipe work/fastener related

Toolmaster at the top of the Cowley road, Oxford.

I popped in this week after deciding I needed some proper tools, some T bar hex keys to be precise. They had loads of Bondhus key sets, and the big red handle ones of all sizes.

i got a 4,5,6 and 8mm for £25, I figured the small ones a bit pointless.