Full black, drowning-in-black, Victorian era mourning regalia I spied here once. Never seen the like. No way you could forget you're in mourning swathed neck to ankle in suffocating black crepe.
There are often wonders lurking in here. While their opening hours can be a bit flexible (consider the above an approximation) it's always worth dropping off the highway and going in to see this store. Linens and books, tools and kitchenalia, they've a great range of antiques and collectables in store.
Best of all, and for which I love and bless antiques centres, are the stories that come with the objects. Once, in purchasing a 1950's kid's book called 'Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars' and a very brown, very battered, I couldn't believe it antique sampler, I was given the piece's history. Bought out at Windsor, it was sewn by the daughter of the Dean of Surgery at Sydney Uni in the early days. A student myself there at the time (the uni, not the surgery) I smiled at the coincidence, and wondered if the name-lost daughter wanted to go to University herself rather than sit at home in hot Windsor and stitch. I treasure her work, in her memory.
And the spinster in space story? Who could go past that? read more