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The Factory Shop Guide series was started in 1985 by Gill Cutress and Rolf Stricker - who described themselves as 'walking
rejects' due to the sheer number of clothes, home furnishings and garden items bought from Factory Shops - with the first
national book being published in 1993. To date 600,000 regional and national guides have been sold with the new one being
the 75th in the series.
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| The 1st Factory Shop Guide edition - now a collector's item? |
After accidentally wandering into a Factory Shop in Derbyshire Gill Cutress was amazed at the bargains on offer.
What started as a tentative pastime soon took over their lives and after becoming redundant spawned the proposal of writing
a guide to these 'secrets'. In 1985 Gill started researching information on Factory Shops in the Nottingham area with the
aim of producing a local Factory Shop Guide book. It was an extremely original idea that involved personally visiting each
entry to ensure that all the details were accurate and directions easy to follow. A small booklet was published in modest
quantities that immediately sold out everywhere it went on sale. After numerous reprints an idea began to form that perhaps
this popularity would extend to other areas of the country and 'The Official Great British Factory Shop Guide' was born.
After
12 years and1/4 million miles of travelling Gill and Rolf decided to take a well earned break passing 'The Official Great
British Factory Shop Guide' onto Anthony Peters Manufacturing Company Ltd. in 2004 to carry on with helping shoppers
find amazing bargains.
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Dear Friends and Fellow Factory Shoppers,
Welcome to the latest edition of The Factory
Shop Guide. We are greatly looking forward to using this new book - with its totally updated information - which is now produced
by Anthony Peters, a small family manufacturing company with a unique and colourful Factory Shop in Melton Mowbray.
Some
of you will remember us from our first small book for Nottingham (a collector's item by now, maybe?) in 1985. Others will
have caught up with us over subsequent years as we extended our researches and discovered ever more of these wonderful value
shops. After 74 volumes, covering the entire UK and also northern France, we needed a break: a break from travelling thousands
of miles each year, and a break in which we could organise our many excellent purchases. Since our last book we have moved
house - and we believe we must have the finest range of factory shop purchases in any home in the UK!
Curtaining from
Somerset and Suffolk, carpets from Kidderminster, bathroom fittings from Bristol, ceramic planters from Stoke, flower pots
from Scotland, cutlery from Litchfield and Sheffield, tableware from Hanley, cookware from Birmingham, furniture from Yorkshire,
garden chairs from Kent. And many other items too numerous to mention. We genuinely do count the amount of money we have saved
(rather than the huge amount we have had to spend to furnish our new home).
As ever we wish you successful and worthwhile
shopping, with lots of those unexpected bargains which prove totally irresistible. We wish Anthony Peters fun and success
in continuing this series of shopping guides. We know you will give them the same stunning support which you showed us over
nearly 20 years.
Gill Cutress and Rolf Stricker
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Anthony Peters Manufacturing Company Ltd.
Thorpe Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE131SL.
Tel:
01664 481882 Fax: 01664 481883
email: info@factoryshopguide.com
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