Hawtum Country Antiques

Initially, the business was driven quite accidentally by our passion for collecting old bottles, bisque dolls, advertising pot lids, clay pipes, perfume bottles etc. We visited old Victorian dumps, digging up to eight feet deep to unearth these treasures….for free!! Then, by attending Antiques Fairs, we soon developed other tastes & had to resort to selling surplus stock which was building up fast. After renting a table top space in a small Centre we soon graduated into renting a complete room. Obviously shelving & furniture was required to display the collectables & pine furniture seemed to compliment our goods. On making weekly checks on items sold we discovered the small items all over the floor meaning more & more furniture was needed, hence our specialisation in old pine. Margaret prepared the stock, whilst Geoff repaired in his spare time due to his professional work. After taking early retirement Geoff joined Margaret full time & now one of our sons, Andrew, is taking an active part having been brought up ‘dealing’ at the early age of 8 at Bottle Fairs.