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Long-time Hays Travel agent given honour of reopening her revamped shop

Agents
Rob Gill
26 September 2025

When it came to deciding who should reopen Hays Travel’s newly refurbished shop in Wickersley, South Yorkshire, there was only one choice – consultant Lynn Robinson, who has been selling holidays at the branch for nearly four decades.

Lynn Robinson opens Hays Travel's newly refurbished Wickersley branch
(Credit: Hays Travel)

Lynn Robinson opens Hays Travel's newly refurbished Wickersley branch (Credit: Hays Travel)

Robinson was asked by branch manager Michelle James to do the honours and cut the ribbon on the revamped shop earlier this week.

Her history with the shop goes back 39 years during which time it has operated under numerous agency brands, including Woodcock, Apollo, Co-operative Travel and Thomas Cook, before being acquired by Hays in 2019.

“I’m now booking holidays for the children and grandchildren of my first customers," said Robinson. "I have lots of regulars - it’s a lovely little place."

Robinson decided to become a travel agent while at school in the 1980s and later started work at the agency, then using the Woodcock name, on 10 November 1986.