The shop's owners Neil Brown and Phil Barton stress that the shop is still trading and the administrators are seeking interested parties in order to secure the future of the business.

The joint administrators, Ian Cadlock and Andy Pear of Tenon Recovery, says they are hopeful that a sale as a going concern may be achieved within the next four weeks.

Cadlock says, "This is a unique business with a truly global reputation and we are doing everything possible to ...