Manchester’s oldest kosher delicatessen, which was named after the Titanic, has itself been sunk, a victim of increased competition and diminished customer loyalty.
Managing director Richard Hyman said he was too upset to talk about the closure of Titanics, a family business founded in 1913 by his great-grandfather Joseph Abraham Hyman, a survivor of the ill-starred cruise ship.
The Cheetham Hill branch was the final to shut up shop. Its Altrincham outlet, operated by a separate company, closed a few months ago.
Joseph Hyman’s grandson Stanley, who ran the store during the 1970s, told the Jewish Telegraph: “It is a very sad day and the end of an era in Manchester.
