Long-established garage closes down with loss of all jobs

People in Shepton Mallet have been left saddened at the news of the closure of Shepton Mallet Motors
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People in Shepton Mallet have been left saddened at the news of the closure of Shepton Mallet Motors. The garage, which was in the Haskins Retail Centre, was a long-established Shepton Mallet business which has closed with the loss of all jobs.

The Honda garage, as well as selling cars, offered car servicing and repairs, exhausts, general repairs, MOT testing, tyres and was a one-stop garage for local motorists. It is part of the Haskins Retail Centre and used to have a Texaco petrol station attached which closed a few years ago.

The Haskins Retail Centre is owned and managed by the Haskins family who are in their fourth generation of family members managing the site.

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Jack Haskins began a small business in his cottage in 1930 and since then it has evolved and grown into the destination shopping centre of the Mendips.