TRIBUTES have been paid to a hardworking and popular former Quarry Bank shopkeeper who has died of coronavirus aged 91. Ida Cartwright ran Cartwright s grocers and general store in New Street with the help of her husband Roy for around 40 years, becoming a popular face in the area. Ida died at Russells Hall Hospital on February 4 after contracting coronavirus. Former neighbours came out to pay tribute to Ida as her funeral procession drove past the site of her former shop last Tuesday (March 4). Daughter Pamela Binek-Bradbury, aged 63, said: Cartwright s was one of the first mini-supermarkets. Everyone knew mum and dad - they were popular faces in Quarry Bank.