Cleckheaton Antiques

Dewsbury Reporter

Take a look around Cleckheaton's newest antiques store - Cleckheaton Antiques.

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00:00 So I'm here at Clackheaton Antiques which has just been opened in Clackheaton and we're

00:07 going to take a look around and we're going to speak first of all with the owner Barry

00:15 Naylor.

00:16 Barry pleased to meet you.

00:17 Pleased to meet you.

00:18 First of all Barry where did your love of antiques stem from?

00:21 From being a child I think.

00:23 Watching stuff with my grandparents and things like that.

00:26 My grandmothers used to like old things and it just came from there and I've always done

00:31 it all my life even if it's part time.

00:35 And what brings you to Clackheaton?

00:38 I just like the town.

00:39 I like the place.

00:40 I like the people.

00:41 I was born in Wake but spent most of my life in Bradford which is horrible now.

00:49 But Clackheaton is a lovely little place.

00:52 Vibrant little shops, nice people, everybody's friendly.

00:57 So yeah, of course I like eating people, it's lovely.

01:01 And over the years you've established yourself in the industry.

01:05 Talk to me about your kind of TV stardom.

01:08 I don't do stardom.

01:11 I used to be, what do you call it, I'm a dealer basically.

01:15 I'm an antiques dealer.

01:17 And back in the day when we'd come and plug it and antiques were on show and things like

01:24 that, what you didn't see when you saw these big queues of people, but at the bottom there'd

01:28 be loads of tables with people like me sat there.

01:31 And we opened your bags, we valued your stuff and then we went like that and a producer

01:37 come over and we'd go right this is so and so, so and so, so and so, bye so and so.

01:41 And they'd go, right I'll go get an expert.

01:43 They'd come back with an expert, me and the expert and go right this is da da da da da

01:47 da, we agree on that case, let's do it.

01:49 And then the expert texts them like they've never seen it before.

01:53 And that's how TV is really basically.

01:56 But nowadays antiques are on show, you send pictures in, plug it, they stop filming you

02:01 on lockdown, I'm starting again, things like that.

02:04 So I wouldn't call myself, I'm not a celebrity, but I've got a decent reputation as an antiques

02:11 dealer.

02:12 And how have the first couple of weeks been since opening?

02:16 Brilliant, the footfall, if you're thinking of opening a shop, come and click here, there's

02:22 hardly any empty ones.

02:24 When you find one, you'll be amazed at the footfall you get.

02:27 And the paying customers if you understand me.

02:31 And the nice people, they're all, everybody's all sort of chatting a little thing, so yeah

02:36 it's really nice.

02:37 Right, so let's take a look around.

02:38 No problem.

02:39 Back room.

02:40 There's more mainly collectibles in here.

02:46 So you've got like mid-century studio pottery, West German studio pottery, carnival glass,

02:55 people collect some of those pepper pots, toast racks, people collecting, coins obviously

03:02 people collecting, Royal Dalton, things like that, all this is collectible.

03:07 And then you've got things like this, my favourite stuff.

03:10 Right, that thing.

03:12 My favourite pottery in the whole wide world.

03:15 Shelf pottery, and it was made in shelf, by a school teacher in his garage.

03:21 They used to have like Tupperware parties to sell it.

03:24 It's so tactile.

03:27 So, and it's one of those things that is just meant to be touched.

03:30 Again, not very expensive items.

03:33 And they had different phases, so he went on to do like a concept range, which is like

03:38 colours.

03:39 Well that frog comes in brown, comes in blue, comes in green, comes in red.

03:43 And they're just really nice tactile things you can wring your fingers down on.

03:47 And, again, not a million pounds, but good collectible things, and with a local interest.

03:53 Like pictures of Jonesbury.

03:58 So, which is Church Street in Jonesbury, and the town centre, and I think that's the town hall.

04:06 So, yeah.

04:08 Barry, what have you found for us there?

04:15 Right, this little autograph book.

04:17 Not major.

04:19 Not very expensive.

04:21 And it contains things like Romany off the BBC.

04:25 The Reverend G Bramble, and I mean the BBC when it was radio.

04:30 And then just carry on going through.

04:32 Edward Everett Horton, August 8th 1938.

04:37 And it says there, if you look, a clip from the paper about him being a film star and everything else.

04:42 In this book there's all sorts.

04:44 The Mills Brothers Band, Vera Lynn, Les Carew.

04:49 And we also have Joe Davis in here, who is a very, you know, Redlander snooker player.

04:56 One of the original champions.

04:58 Joe Davis.

05:01 So, things like this are not very expensive, but they're beautiful to look at, and they're a piece of history.

05:08 They're a piece of history that will never be repeated, because a lot of people have passed away.

05:12 And the fact that somebody went out and collected them, and they've probably passed away as well.

05:16 But it's still here.

05:18 People can still look at it, feel it.

05:21 I have that bit of history and a bit of connection.

05:24 That's what this place is about.

05:26 Touch it, feel it, hold it.

05:28 It's all from the past.

05:30 It's all either vintage, unique, or antique.

05:35 And they need touching, right.

05:38 They're not to watch on telly, I don't like that.

05:40 Come and touch and hold them.

05:42 Start a collection, add to your collection.

05:45 But, yeah, call in, any time.

05:48 I'd like to say, ladies and gentlemen, now, it's going, going, gone.

06:00 Sold to the gentleman in the brown shirt.

06:04 Bye bye.

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