The firm also run an antiques centre and have done so for almost 35 years, said Michael MacGregor of the family who own the enterprise. This is an interesting piece of trade history.
London-based antique centre mogul Bennie Gray, owner of the eponymous Grays market in Mayfair and Alfie’s in Islington, is credited with starting the whole centres phenomenon in 1965. Tudorose opened their centre at Great Baddow in Essex in the same year, so it is a close run thing.
The company recently relocated from the centre of Stowmarket to a six-acre site on the A14 outside the town and the centre moved with it.
Now the Tudorose Antique Centre with its 100ft window frontage and purpose built interior is an integral part of the factory and workshops complex, facing the road and with ample parking space.
There are already 26 dealers in situ, but there is still room for a few more in the centre which was officially opened on August 30 by ex-Tory Minister and long-standing Tudorose customer Sir John Wheeler.
A historical claim by a thoroughly modern family firm
FOR 40 years, the Suffolk family concern Tudorose Ltd has been involved, directly or indirectly, with the antiques world. The operation is very much in line with current trends, for the company creates high-quality reproduction antique furniture, designs contemporary furniture, restores furniture and completely renovates interiors, among other things.
