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 Noel Durdant-Hollamby, Tinley House Cookware
Tinley House Cookware, Old School Walk
Tinley House isn’t the only place in Sevenoaks where you can buy a kitchen knife to chop your carrots, but it’s the only shop where a professional chef will be on hand to advise you which one you need. This new cookware shop run by Noel Durdant-Hollamby and his business partner Peter Fleming is tucked away in Old School Walk, an alleyway in the Blighs Meadow.
Together they ran Bowlers cookware shop before its owner sold up and moved to Somerset, so they are convinced that the town has room for a specialist retailer of this kind. “We both know the town very well and we know there’s a market for it,” Noel says. Despite the high rents in Sevenoaks, there was no question of siting the shop elsewhere. Because of the shop’s location, Noel admits that 90 per cent of town residents probably don’t yet know of its existence.
Any aspiring Nigellas and Jamies will find this shop the right place to come. It’s small but unlike many kitchen shops, it’s uncluttered and has room for buggies to overtake. The shop will sharpen your kitchen knives and help you draw up your wedding present list. “This isn’t a buy-it-quick shop. We can close the shop and give people an appointment to discuss their needs,” Noel says. What it needs to bring in the customers is the smell of something tasty wafting out of the door and along the alleyway. “In the summer I may just throw a barbecue on the street,” the former chef says.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 April 2008 )
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