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Sarah's winter work!

 Thank you to Sarah! What a feat, hauling heavy canvases around her workshop to sew logos on to every roof and many walls! Now we are a brand!!
Also to John Collins who despite telling me that he has actually retired, was wonderfully helpful and diligent in sorting and sourcing printing for me to rather exacting specifications!

                                                   We now have toggles all round the 
                                            top of the walls of every tent so we 
                                               can hang bunting and fairy lights with ease. A nod to Nick for that suggestion, and of course to Sarah for innovative ideas, as always. A mention for David too, who has been busy sleeving poles and inventing pin pullers!! What a team!

Motley Crew!

Here we are, sporting our new Vintage Marquee fleeces! From left, David, John, myself and Josh.
The first Vintage Marquee to go up this year was erected yesterday in a gale!! 

Sunshine!

At last the sun is shining! Here I am, sewing needle in hand, loving a bit of canvas wall maintenance!

These are the walls for the new (old ) Bristol marquee which have all had a scrub and look pretty fine.

Pics of the new tent to follow as soon as David has made the main poles!

Wick Barn

My favourite job, decorating a venue!

Last weekend I spent four hours at Wick Barn near Farleigh hungerford, adding the Vintage Marquees  touch! A clear span frame had been attached to the barn and my remit was to make it pretty in time for the wedding party reception. The bistro sets were perfect in be bar area, the vintage cushions softening the look. The bunting matched the table cloths and country flowers in vintage glass vases looked very sweet. I added rose garlands and ivy to the main barn which complimented the florist's displays on the tables.

April antics! how corny!!

Much activity at Vintage Marquees HQ recently. 

     I have been shifting around stock, buying and selling tents to hopefully end up with the optimum selection and a perfect and comprehensive collection for all events.

     Lovely Olivia has bought one of the 4m Indian Pagoda tents, Emma and Sam now have the 30' x 40' Indian Raj marquee for their wedding later this year and Stephen has just collected the double to our Essex marquee to use at his garden centre (check out www.stydd.com) which will now be a wedding venue. Then Philip from Wales kindly collected some great old wooden tent poles for my Bristol marquee and left with some tent roof sections for the bike club tent that they use for their annual rally.

    I love all this! And I think the last two Pagoda tents are going to Emily at Durham university! All this will mean that I funds towards some of my new expenses, especially the Paris marquee, the queen of the collection, coming soon!

    I must mention a MASSIVE thanks to David who has sleeved 25' marquee poles, helped sort and measure miles of canvas walls ( a seemingly never ending task as we are going methodically through every old tent, adding logos, cleaning, mending etc) hand made giant wooden dollies and even made a tent peg puller for the 3' steel pins we secure the tents with!

     I am very busy with quotes and enquiries for the summer (and taking bookings for next year too). Bookings start next weekend, through to mid September at the moment, with May, June and July busy every weekend. There is still fairly good availability though, as I have so many tents now!

I have twenty of these lovely jubley deckchairs..straight from the sea front!!

I am investigating buying uplighters now..and Topsy in chippenham is busy making up 100+ 

new ropes!!! Tis quite a business!