75 Years Ago Today … and an Apology 75 years ago, my Grandparents moved their family from a modern, comfortable house in Tweedmouth into a draughty, leaky, ill-repaired building with an outside WC. 75 years ago, my Grandfather left a secure job with the Co-op and opened a very small shop in Walkergate, Berwick-upon-Tweed. The […]

Attention all Sewers!   We have just taken delivery of a LARGE quantity (approx 1 ton/300 pieces) of fabric remnants. One of Europe’s larger fabric merchants OCCASIONALLY allows us the opportunity of getting these. ALL of these are at LARGE discounts – up to 75% in some cases. The fabric includes cottons, velvets, velours, brocades […]

We regularly ship to Scotland (ha ha), Ireland, Channel Islands and (don’t tell anyone) even sales. Though we have sold prams to Sweden, carpets to Switzerland and curtain rails to Australia, this week we broke our duck and exported four rolls of tartanesque fabric to New Zealand. Our delivery team is expected back in time […]

Just over a week ago, we headed south and visited a number of our suppliers’ factories and warehouses. Some of the goodies we picked up are now in. Call in and check out some of these bargains: 60+ roll ends of fabric all less than half price and most a lot cheaper than that; Rose […]

40 NOT OUT! Forty years ago, HB Longbone & Son welcomed a new employee, Kevin Lock, into its carpet and household textiles shop in Walkergate, Berwick-upon-Tweed. To commemorate this, Kevin was presented with a long service award and a small memento. Kevin joined the firm as a callow youth at 17 and has developed extensive […]

       Some people say that you can’t do a good job with a striped carpet on a staircase with a bend. Well, dare I say, if you know what you are doing when planning, and you have good fitters, then you can. As you can see from these photos, these stairs (including the bends) and […]

Well, it’s been a busy & exciting few days with the arrival of lots of new things. Don’t quite know where we are going to put the extra 200+ pairs of curtains or the duvet covers, but I suppose it’s our own silly fault when we’ve already got over 600 pairs of curtains and 100 […]

Just taken delivery of new stock of our best-selling plaid/tartans, heavy wool-look fabric. This now gives us a selection of nine colours in this range, including the new Oxford Blue shade which looks really good. We will get this shade and all the others listed as soon as possible. If you need some JUST NOW, […]