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Sept 2020
Last Updated: 03/09/2020
Ripon shop to close after more than 40 years
Jon Barrie sells a range of designer mens clothes, including Fred Perry and Pretty Green.
Jon Barrie in Ripon will close its doors for the final time this month.
An independent designer menswear store in Ripon city centre will close this month for the final time after more than 40 years of business.
Jon Barrie, in Market Place, is selling its remaining stock as well as its fixtures and fittings. The manager expects to be closed permanently by September 19.
Not only will the Ripon store close but the Keighley shop will as well. The Pontefract and Castleford shops will remain open.
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Anna Simmonds, the Ripon store manager, told the Stray Ferret it will be a sad day when it closes in a couple of weeks:
"We simply cannot continue to trade when the economy is like this after so many months of lockdown. It is absolutely gutting, it is going to be awful on that last day."
Jon Barrie sells a range of designer mens clothes such as Fred Perry and Pretty Green as well as designer accessories.
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