Gerry Dawson

I became interested in tools when Carol bought a box of carpenters tools at an auction. A year or so later we started a stall at Bridport Market in Dorset specialising in traditional tools for the wood and metal working trades and others. In the early 1980’s we established a retail shop in East Devon and then, following the sale of that business, another shop was opened in Wiltshire. In September of 2004 I left that to start a similar business trading mainly on the Internet under the name of secondhandtools.co.uk.

Carol Dawson

I did a lot of the buying for the market stall and can remember thinking I had made a mistake to buy a box of old tools! Since then, however, tools have been part of my life but with four children I have been mostly in the background of the business. I now work part time for our local district council, look after our grandson one day a week and with Gerry slowly am "doing up" our house and with a lot of luck have time for the garden.

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