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A lot of their used stuff is proper quality. Oldschool Britool, unior and that other one, but hard to get them interested enough to bother ratching out more than a few trays worth at once.
When I was in the NE of england there was a properly amazing tool shop in Sunderland, was just based out of a shop front that then spilled over into the house behind and flats upstairs, crazy huge, crazy cheap (if you found what you wanted on your own) and mostly very high quality gear from a previous era, shipbuilding town and all, when yards shut folks sold their tools off, this shop had the last stash of any size and when the guy finally packed in he filled two 40' shipping containers with what he had left and sent them to Africa, shame but also useful, as at least folk on the receiving end would have been grateful for them here he couldn't even give them away toward the end!
In other news, WERA joker ratchet spanners are the absolute almond croissants. Nearly £20 each and they only come in 10/13/15/17/19mm sizes, straight, with no crank/offset or anything, but incredibly solid, the ratchet mechanism is at the chris king end of the spectrum and has a handy nut holding feature which actually works. Got a seized bolt off an almost totally unreachable part of the car the other day, one of these was the only tool short of having to gas cut it off.