New stock for the new term.

Summer holidays are over and the kids are back to school ,time to take a deep breath and get on with the school run again and for me getting Miles my 15yr old son up and running before 8.10 deadline to leave the house and because he is back to work so am i .
I have updated 12 items that i have been buying over the summer some rare to include the woodwose panel and some quirky like the bleached Lion brackets.
Thank you for taking the time to look and most importantly if the children are at school put the kettle on and have a browse..
Regards Darren

Please take a look
www.antiquehadden.co.uk

It has been a while as always but i thought i had best keep you upto date.

I have moved out of the shop ,which was always going to be short term but it seems to have happened sooner than i expected,i was only using the shop as a showroom and opening by appointment  which suited me fine ,being a tennant with no lease while the shop was up for sale,well the shop has now sold and so it was back to the drawing board brain storming do i get another shop ,do i go into a retail unit or do i concentrate on fairs ?.

Well in all honesty it seems that my online presence is far more popular than my high Street presence as i only had a few people in the shop and i feel most of them did not quite understand the addiction of old knotty wood and iron straps, where as my site and the refreshing use of Instagram and Twitter is starting to flourish bringng new collectors and decorators on board.

So with this in mind (and also the freedom of not sitting in a shop) i have decided to go back into a unit which i can still dress and use for photos ,storage and bringing clients to see my stock in person if needs be.

This is what i have done and i am now back on a unit on a farm aptly named Burnt Oak Farm ,based in Waldron East Sussex and as a bonus it is only 5 minutes from home and 10 minutes from my local public house so i must say it is a win win situation.

I am going to change my photo styles slightly with some in situ images as i have painted one wall with Farrow & Ball Stiffkey blue and have oak floorboards as well as a few mats scattered around but not all images as i will have time again to go back to what i love and that is taking a chair into the woods and fields for that dramatic country life image which i feel is a trademark of mine.

A big thank you to all that did come to the shop and did understand Knotty old wood and also a big thank you to all my new Instagram followers that are falling for the temptation of Knotty wood.

So what with re arranging the unit and all the flapping around that i do i will be updating my site very soon ,but in the meantime here is an image of a English Medieval stained glass panel that has just come my way its huge at 34" wide and 33" high in a quatrefoil shape.

Thanks again.