Sorry for delay dears.
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A great day at Truro yesterday with biting winds but 70 sellers braved the dry weather with 1000 plus buyer’s men women and their kids enjoying the bargains. There were problems and complaints from some customers for the delay to our Car Boot traffic with tailbacks on main roads. We will finish the winter season at Truro on Sundays at the end of April but will still do all of the BANK HOLIDAY MONDAYS and in the event rain on Sundays we will always consider using the Cattle Market under cover facilities. The new set of traffic lights immediately outside the Cattle Market entrance which were installed to control the Waitrose Park and Ride make delays in our traffic inevitable but be patient please or better still come earlier!

Many regulars will remember the previous MITCHELL Car Boot Sales over the road from our existing Car Boots at Trethvas Farm. The owner David Leggo telephoned to advise as a matter of courtesy that different people have asked him if they could run Car Boot sales on his land. He has steadfastly refused however he is considering their offers but would much prefer Car Boots Cornwall to return to his Nancemere Farm location because of our reputation. The last thing I want is for someone to come along and ruin the business of Trethvas Farm by opening a Car Boot Sale on a sodding Saturday morning at 8.00 in the bloody morning when Trethvas starts at 12.00 noon.

So with a ‘MASSIVE’ pinch of ‘let bygones be bygones’ and after very careful negotiations with both Landlords I can advise that agreement has been reached for Car Boots Cornwall to operate TWO Car Boot Sales at Mitchell and that on SATURDAYS we will be at our usual location Trethvas Farm at 12.00 noon (strictly NO DOGS allowed) and we will return to ‘the old Mitchell’ Nancemeer Farm on SUNDAY AFTERNOONS at 1.30 pm (DOGS allowed but NOT in selling areas)
I am undecided about Tuesdays 12.00 noon at Newquay and need to check what land is available and when? I will advise. However just up the road a bit on the right hand side of the road there is a field of promise my lovers?

Thursday we will be at our new location Mole Valley, St Columb Major at 12.00 noon. The location has a main road entrance and over 20 acres are available for Car Boot Sales and right on the doorstep is the Mole Valley shopping Centre. More details to follow.

GOOD Friday at FALMOUTH will be our first Car Boot Sale of the year the second one will be Bank Holiday Monday at TEN o’clock in the morning see! I get conned into people telling me (one person in particular) “loads of people say if you open earlier in the season it will be busy” and I say WALOOBs cos when we get there only 3 people turned up!

Royal Cornwall Car Boot Sales; Negotiating
Penryn Car Boot Sales; they asked for early Sunday mornings? More to follow.

Perranporth; we tried, we failed, move on!

PAR MARKET; we will not be at Par Market St Austell any more on Thursdays which will disappoint many regular sellers who traded well over the years. From our side and the Landlords side of the business neither of us made much money out of the sales at Par Market with many of the locals not being able to come to terms with the 50 p per adult admission and to park your car for free. TFOBs!

Par Market are spending loads of money to try to reinvent themselves but to succeed they will need a lot more luck than I would want to wish them. A market is a market is a market and they will definitely not last forever mainly because you can buy everything (well almost) cheaper on eBay but the good news is that Car Boot Sales will outlive all markets! And no, Car Boot Sales did not ‘ruin the markets’ the Markets did that for themselves-it wasn’t the Car Boots me ansums!

Geoff

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