St. Martins Antiques has the largest and finest collection of antiques in Stamford. Peter Light founded St. Martins Antiques Centre in 1993, the year George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch, was filmed in the town. Since then, the number of dealers has grown steadily, and now the centre has the capacity to lease space to over seventy exhibitors, homed on floor units, or in a range of cabinets.