December 2006 at The Reclamation Yard

Terry has a magnificent-looking horse drawn carriage in his showroom. "Made in 1874 in Bellac and has been in the same family up to recent times" Terry told us. It is the sort of carriage used in the film My Fair Lady and would look the part in a chateau.

Alongside is genuine French bed linen at a remarkably low price. That which I thought was a metre high chimney pot with a lid was in fact a rhubarb forcer. And the big stone troughs there a week ago had gone "A French farmer bought them" said Terry "and we carted them to his farm; they weighed about three tonnes each" I liked the look of the weight driven clock. "No it's not a clock, it's a mechanism they placed on the end of the spit pole which rotated to cook the meat evenly and dates from the seventeenth century. When the meat is timed to have been cooked the mechanism rings a bell to call the servants" he said. I gave up and carried on looking round. It is a veritable Aladin's cave and anyone looking to renovate or replace needs to visit the reclamation yard. Terry's office displays his latest theme on recycling.

The ceiling and wall beams looked quite genuine - they were wood not foam and pinned in place by wall mounted French garden hoes. Terry takes ordinary beams, splits them in half and locks them into place over the plasterboard joins. "They have aged so they will not move, they look good and they are not polystyrene foam". His office floor is Indian stone flooring. He is always seeking good oak beams and flooring.