Alison Baker opens her new Pigeon Post Emporium in Greatham, Hartlepool, on June 15

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00:00I'm in Greetham and I'm with Alison in your new venture. It looks fantastic, it looks

00:07interesting. Tell me, how did you come here?

00:09Well, thank you very much. It's Pigeon Post Emporium. It's a lovely little craft shop

00:16for local artists' work, vintage things. I've been a potter for 30 years and I teach now.

00:25I still have my own teaching place in Norton as a studio there, but I decided that this

00:33would be a lovely thing to do for selling people's work. It's a cute little shop, everything

00:39sort of based on sustainability. Everything's been sourced, even the shelving and the pieces

00:47around have all been particularly sourced for the place. I've also got the doll's house

00:54for the window.

00:55I noticed that, it's beautiful, isn't it?

00:57Thank you. It's hopefully going to attract, so that the children can look inside and see

01:03that the little pigeon family are doing something different on different times of the year.

01:08Maybe putting a Christmas tree up at Christmas would be nice. It's just something to bring

01:13to Greetham, a nice place for people to be able to buy gifts. Everything's hopefully

01:19kind of a reasonable price. And yeah, it's my little dream, I suppose.

01:26What's your opening hours? People love that.

01:29Opening Friday to Sunday, 11 till 4. We have a grand opening this Saturday between 12 and

01:371.30, but the shop itself will be open 12 till 4. We even have a pigeon release happening

01:43on the day to give a little bit of something else to the proceedings. We've got a tombola

01:52stall and a coffee van and a lovely young local lad, George Bailey, who's going to be

01:57singing for us. So hopefully that'll be a lovely start to this great venture. It's going

02:04to be a nice addition, I think, to the village.