Directions :- You can catch the overground to Hackney Wick train station, which we are 1 min walk from. If you come out of Hackney Wick station, turn immediately left and walk directly into Queens Yard you have arrived. I left school at 16 years of age and began a four year engineering apprenticeship with British Road Services specialising in my final year in Turbine and Turbo Technologies. At twenty years of age I then entered a career in the Oil Industry with Vetco Gray as an Installation and Production Engineer specialising in Wellheads, Completions and Entire Shutdown Systems, later pioneering the SMS systems for National Oil Well. At 24 years old I decided to give up the Oil Industry to pursue a new career in Antiques something I had been interested in from a young age. I often went to auctions as a child with my mum Gloria. They had always fascinated me. This is where the collector in me began and where those first seeds were sown. As a child collecting what most boys did, toy cars and marbles, the latter I still have. My new career got off to a very good start buying and selling at auction, particularly Durrants Auction Rooms in Beccles where I cut my teeth in the world of art and antiques. At that time I also began selling from an area at the back of the Old Rag Market at Brick Lane Antiques market in East London. Driving up from Suffolk every Saturday night I would arrive at around 3am on Sunday morning. This is where my new apprenticeship began and where over the next seven years I began to learn how the antiques world worked. Brick Lane was a magnet to me, come rain or shine I was there, I learnt so much from the Old School dealers of the time, they were so helpful and I still have many friends from those early days.
