{"id":83056,"date":"2024-02-20T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=83056"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:22:05","slug":"son-clarence-hardware-store-shopkeeper-to-keep-running-shop-after-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2024\/02\/20\/son-clarence-hardware-store-shopkeeper-to-keep-running-shop-after-fathers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of much-loved shopkeeper to keep running family hardware store after father&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clarence Hardware Store has been an important part of the Grangetown community since it was first opened in 1959<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>THE son of a much-loved shopkeeper at Cardiff\u2019s oldest independent hardware store will continue to run it after his father&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martyn Thomas, who owns the shop, lost his dad Ronnie on February 6 after complications relating to bowel cancer. For 10 years Ronnie was also sole carer for his wife, Janet Thomas, who is in a care home with dementia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community in Grangetown has offered up hundreds of tributes to Mr Thomas, both on social media and in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had loads and loads of people coming by to wish us all the best, condolences, to give us a hug, drop flowers off, drop cards off,\u201d said Martyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/Ronnie-with-son-and-bro.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83104\" style=\"width:765px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/Ronnie-with-son-and-bro.jpg 615w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/Ronnie-with-son-and-bro-300x200.jpg 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business partner Andrea Kay in 1987, after buying out his friend Mr Trevor J Parker, who had originally opened the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/clarence-boys-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83113\" style=\"width:770px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/clarence-boys-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/clarence-boys-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/clarence-boys-1-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/02\/clarence-boys-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, 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Credit: Clarence Hardware Store.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Thomas and his father then became business partners for five years, before his son bought him out so that he would be able to retire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBless him he just couldn\u2019t do it anymore,\u201d said Martyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronnie was one of nine children and came from a very poor family who lived in a small house in the forest just outside of Cowbridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you get people that have come from very humble beginnings they want to make sure that they do better, they want their children to have better,\u201d said Martyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The funeral for Ronnie Thomas will be held at 12pm on March 8 at Cardiff and Glamorgan crematorium and anyone who wishes to pay their respects is welcome to attend.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes poured in for Ronnie Thomas, joint owner of Clarence Hardware, after he died earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":83102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,3],"tags":[1291,71],"coauthors":[8546],"class_list":["post-83056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grangetown","category-news","tag-cardiff-2","tag-grangetown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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