Businessman has no intention of 'fading away' after closing part of his 55-year-old firm
A Shropshire businessman has no intention of retiring even after making the difficult decision to stop trading part of the company he's been working for for more than 55 years.
David Evans, who is also a Shropshire councillor, has closed the poultry side of Cyril Bason (Stokesay) Ltd to concentrate on the company's hardware shop in Craven Arms.
Mr Evans, who will be 70 in January, started working for Cyril Bason delivering poultry to local farms when he was aged 14.
At the start of his long career, he was paid £2 a week but ended up being able to buy his own house and eventually then the business.
He remortgaged his house to buy the business from Cyril Bason in 1992.
"It happened to be the right time and the bank manager agreed!" said Mr Evans.
"We will be making final deliveries on Tuesday," said Mr Evans, who has been married to Wendy for 45 years. "We will then clean out the sheds and hand them back to the farmer we have been renting from.
"I have mixed feelings about it but it is also about my health. I have been having health issues. So I decided, sat on a hospital bed, to base myself at the shop.
