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Loretta's Story
In 1974 I was asked if I had any ideas for items for sale for our local charity stall that friends were setting up together at a local country horse fair. It didn’t take much thinking about........
The year before I had moved from London to a place in the country near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England, specifically to work on setting up a charitable organisation called Green Deserts which had a very strong ecological base added to high idealistic concepts - the refertilising of desert wastelands using natural energy technology combined with organic husbandry.
Bury St Edmunds is a small market town set in rural East Anglia and being a girl from London I was fascinated by the auctions in the livestock market area. Halfway through the market day on a Wednesday morning I would join in the bidding in what was known as the deadstock auction, mostly bric-a-brac, items from house clearances, old bicycles, pieces of furniture, all sorts were sold under the hammer for very little money. Carpets and mirrors were my fascination and I would go home with two or three each week. I didn’t really have any idea what to do with them until the local fair came along and I thought I could make a few bags for the stall in aid of the Charity Green Deserts.
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- Suffolk IP33 1SP UNITED KINGDOM
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