In 1989 the Falmouth Rugby Club asked us if we would be interested in runnning the existing Car Boot Sales as the club wanted new management for the popular weekly event and we took over the sales with immediate effect. On the day of our takeover the first person I met was JIM who introduced himself ‘I am Jim, I park cars for a FREE stall’ and I agreed to let him carry on with parking the sellers.

Because of my policy of not allowing anyone to buy before the Car Boot started and also insisting that all buyers get equal chance for the BARGAINS at the start on each sale. Jim did not like this policy as it spoiled his chance to buy from sellers as he was parking the cars depriving the other customers of a fair chance to buy. We fell out time and again the final straw being that Jim once again broke the rules buying before the start time causing customers to complain that I had different rules for the staff! BARRED!That was in the mid 1990s

On Saturday last a gentleman said “Do you remember that loud mouth cockney that you barred the one that used to park cars at Falmouth? I could have smacked him in the mouth the other day he was telling some people some bloody lies about you that I know are not true, he was telling everybody that you had lost MABE and MITCHELL!

I thanked the gent for telling me however I hear the same stupidiy every new season.
Jim was furious when I barred him and has tried to discredit my reputation with lies. Since he left I have built CARBOOTSCORNWALL up to 9 different locations and he could have done exactly the same as me!

I do not have a picture of Jim but if you go to Hayle just look for the most expensive “I am selling this for a friend” or “Its from my Uncle’s estate who recently died” stall and you can meet him Jim in person!

CARBOOTSCORNWALL is proud to announce that we will start Car Boot Sales in REDRUTH in June!

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it JIM!