High street shop to close for good after 40 years in just days as owner admits ‘I can’t hang on any longer’

A HIGH street shop will close down after 40 years within just a few days.

Family-owned Sims Footwear said it “can’t hang on any longer” as independent stores increasingly struggle to survive.

Sims FootwearFamily-owned Sims Footwear is in the Great Western Arcade Shopping Centre[/caption]

Paul Lamb, 62, said he will close his last store on April 19 – having outlived all of the other independent shoe retailers in his city.

Over the past two decades his brand has been dotted around Birmingham...