About Lakeland Tyre Service
The history of Lakeland Tyres dates back to the 1960’s, when Jim Frazer worked for Dunlop Tyres in Belfast. Independent tyre retailers were very new back in 1970 when Jim used his vast tyre industry experience opening the first depot from a small garage premises in Pound Lane- Lisnaskea, initially starting under the name Erne Tyres.
By 1973 the Lakeland Tyres name was established, the Lisnaskea branch had moved to the main street under the management of Jim’s brother Alex, whilst the new Henry Street depot in Enniskillen had also, run by brother- Dessie who had also worked in Dunlop. Dessie’s son Adrian was often seen in that depot from age 8, fitting up tyres with his dad, and earned the nick-name Corgi as he loved fitting lorry tyres. “Those were different times” said Adrian. “The Enniskillen premises was really very basic. The customers used to drive in underneath a house and the tyres would be dropped down through a hole in the first floor. It was very manual in those days, all with levers, and the truck tyres used to have big locking rings to grapple with.”
By 1985 Alex and Dessie took complete control of Lakeland Tyres, and Jim had now set up Carryduff Tyres, still successfully run by his family today.
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