Banks J B & Son

What a wonderful treasure trove of a shop! One of those rare traditional ironmongers where you can buy most things by the piece rather than all in plastic packages. You can take in favourite garden tools to be mended. And there's also an excellent and fascinating heritage museum at the back which is well worth finding time for if you're visiting Cockermouth.

This is an old hardware store selling a very large range of new and secondhand tools.

Out the back of the shop the owners run a heritage museum showing off a very large collection of antique tools, maps and painting. Which is definitely worth a visit if you're in the area.

Proper hardware shop that has a remarkable range for its size. Good quality items stocked (incl. some British made,) as well as the usual. Also has an intersting stock of vintage woodworking handtools.

What an amazing place. If they don't sell it, you don't need it. Fabulous museum at the back and upstairs, free to enter too. Lovely lady and gentleman were working there.

Step back into.an old ironmongery smell.the floor from the past an old memory

Great old fashioned Hardwear shop with free museum upstairs, could spend hours in there !!

I had been on the search for some bits to repair some garden tools. None of the big stores had any. It was possible to get them on line but only if I wanted to pay even more in postage and to help some billionaire get to space. Then I walked into Banks and not only was it a wonderful shop, like stepping back in time to an age of real personal service, they also had EVERYTHING I needed with spares.

A wonderful shop in itself but with a fascinating museum attached to it as well. So glad I discovered it.

Great service. Realised on my way from Barnsley to Cockermouth that I needed a set of Stilsons (wrench). Gave them a ring and the kind lady advised they had some. Got there and found they had a set that were the right size.. not new but restored and working perfectly. Only £12.50 so a bargain too. Job completed thanks to this great purchase. Didn't have much time to look around the store but the shop is amazing!