“None of us are going to outlive if we do not preserve shouting about what we provide and the way good we’re,” says the pub landlady turned content material creator who’s supporting the impartial companies in her village.
Maria Harris, runs the Stag in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and is celebrating her fifth Christmas on the pub.
Over the festive interval she shared images and movies of the native retailers within the New Forest village on social media to try to elevate their profile in what she calls a “stunning” time for companies.
“Excessive streets are struggling so we’re at all times making an attempt to do stuff a bit totally different, so it places Lyndhurst on the map,” she says.
“Individuals have not obtained cash, their habits and funds have modified.”
Ms Harris says she is is obsessed with defending native excessive streets, notably for the “getting older inhabitants” who want easy accessibility to amenities.
“I do not understand how they’d get what they want in the event that they have not obtained it on the doorstep,” she says.
Her posts have ranged from pictures highlighting a few of the Christmas decorations within the store home windows to movies of the native butchers having a dance-off.
“We’re all little independents so if we will shout about how nice we’re as a excessive road and it’ll deliver some enterprise in,” she says.
“Something we will do to get us on the map helps.”
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