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Mick's Motorcycles owner dies months after retiring
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
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A SHOP owner described as an 'institution' has died just months after his retirement.

Mick Bromfield, who owned Mick's Motorcycles in Horley Road, Salfords, for more than 30 years, passed away after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

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Mick Bromfield outside his shop

His shop, where he supplied generations of families with motorcycles, was often a social spot for bikers and locals.

"He was what I would call a good man – a good husband, a good father and a good grandfather," his wife Heather told the Surrey Mirror.
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"He helped people if he could. The bikes were his life from his teenage years.

"He was an institution. It was all about the customers; even in later years they would just drop in."

Mr Bromfield retired in April, aged 66, and closed down the shop, which he had bought on the spur of the moment in 1978.

"It is really sad because he won't get to enjoy his retirement," Mrs Bromfield said.

"I wanted to say thank you to all the customers that helped him through the years and have helped us."

Fellow shop owners have fond memories of Mr Bromfield.

Fred Walton, who worked in nearby John's Army Supplies, said: "I used to pop round and say hi in the evening because he used to work strange hours.

"At one stage he used to say he seemed to have more of a social scene in his shop than selling motorbikes."

Not being a bike enthusiast himself, Mr Walton remembers, was no barrier with his neighbour.

"He was a very knowledgeable man about all sorts of things," he said.

"One of the things he was most interested in was astronomy. He used to tell me what was going to happen in the sky that night."

Customers who kept coming back over the years made Mr Bromfield a fixture in the town.

Mrs Bromfield said: "He saw the youngsters come in 'early doors', he would start them off on their first bike and then see them come back with their children."

Away from memories of the shop, she has lost her lifelong partner in the man she first met aged 15.

"He was my other half most of my life," she said. "We had the same interests. He was a good, good man."

Mr Bromfield was diagnosed with a brain tumour in May and was undergoing treatment when he died on September 18.


I went looking for his shop today, as I'm looking for a cheap bike, used to go to him quite a lot over the years. Will be missed.

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