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Bill's Tool Store

A hardware shop on Bain Street by the Barras for over seventy years, with power tools, hand tools, fixings and workwear.

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Bill's Tool Store is a Glasgow hardware institution on Bain Street in the East End, a few steps from the Barras market, and it has been going for more than seventy years.

Its red shopfront, with the name in big letters across the top, is hard to miss, and inside the shelves and bins run from floor to ceiling.

It stocks power tools and hand tools, fixings, workwear and safety kit. Rows of bins hold screws, bolts and fittings, and the walls are hung with saws, hammers and hand planes, including fine woodworking planes by Von Berger and tenon saws by Pax, alongside workwear from Regatta, Portwest and Apache in high-visibility yellow and orange. There is plenty to look at even for anyone who has only come to browse on a Barras weekend. It sells online too, with gift vouchers. Bill's opens on weekdays from seven in the morning until half past five, and from half past nine at the weekend.

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Before you go

Bill's Tool Store opens Monday to Friday from 7am to 5.30pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 9.30am.

Hours
Mon to Fri 07:00 to 17:30; Sat 09:30 to 16:30; Sun from 09:30.
Where
52 to 64 Bain Street, G40 2LD.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
7am–5.30pm
Tuesday
7am–5.30pm
Wednesday
7am–5.30pm
Thursday
7am–5.30pm
Friday
7am–5.30pm
Saturday
9.30am–4.30pm
Sunday
9.30am–4.30pm

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Where it is

52 to 64 Bain Street, by the Barras.

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