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“Mum’s at home looking after the kids, she comes into town, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers… that’s not how it works. You don’t get your best clothes on on a Saturday and meet at old John Turner’s corner – the way people shop has changed.”

Change: this everywhere quiet anxiety of when will things get better? M’s gallery and her sister shop M’s accessories straddles a side-alley into Chesterfield’s Falcon Yard, named from a 1600s pub that is long gone.

This historic part of town has seen much. 1845: an issue over money seeing a man clobbered with a spade in a butcher’s shop. His remains found in a nearby cesspool, identified only by an embroidered handkerchief, a gift from a sweetheart.

“We’re stronger together”: inspiring mum-of-two shop-owner on how Chesterfield can win