Sheffield Space Centre, The Wicker, is one of Sheffield's oldest shops

We visited Sheffield Space Centre, on The Wicker, which is one of Sheffield's oldest shops. Owner Dave Bromehead explained its history

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00:00I'm talking to Dave Bromhead, who runs the Sheffield Space Centre.

00:03Dave, tell me about the event that you've just had this weekend, Free Comic Day.

00:07Yeah, every year the comics industry do what they call Free Comic Book Day,

00:12where we give lots of free comics away on the day.

00:17It's always the first Saturday in May, so you've just missed the one this year,

00:22but next year will be, again, the first Saturday in May.

00:25It's free for anybody to come along, just pick up the number of comics you want,

00:29it's like introducing new characters, new storylines.

00:35And how did it go this year?

00:37Quite well, we were quite busy.

00:39Well, it's always our busiest day of the year, every year, so it went well this year as well.

00:46How long have you been here?

00:48Just over 45 years now.

00:50On the wick we've been here since 1986, but we started off down on London Road, Healy Bottom.

00:55And have you still got a dedicated band of followers?

00:59Oh yeah, we've got people that came in from the first day we were owned, I think, back there.

01:04So we've got a lot of people here that's been here for 40 years or more,

01:07and quite often their sons have been coming,

01:09and quite often their grandsons have been coming here now as well.