St Ives-a new millennium - Flipbook - Page 56
St Ives-a new millennium
4/10/02
3:49 pm
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Above: Mary Cox, ‘Just Sharing’.
Left: Beryl & Michael Knight, Quay Court Antiques
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/RicohXR7 (from a colour slide)
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MX
Just Sharing is the Fair Trade shop located in the
Free Church selling a wide range of items from
the ‘third world’. The aim is to give producers
throughout the world a fair deal, and customers
value for money.
Beryl, a chartered physiotherapist, took over Mrs
Berry’s antique shop at No.7 The Quay in 1972 and
moved the business to No.3 the following year. In
1977 she bought No.4 from Commander Wheeler, but
in 1990 the business moved to the renovated barns
in Quay Court and No. 4 was let as tearooms. Beryl
achieved transient fame in 1998 when she appeared
as a model in Vogue in a feature on ‘older beauty’.
Michael was an occupational psychologist working
for the Ministry of Defence, and joined Beryl in the
antiques business when he retired in 1985. He and
Beryl specialise in pottery, porcelain, pictures and
prints. Michael is writing a book on the ‘Painters of
Huntingdonshire’.
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Mary, involved in Fair Trade for 20 years, has
been manager of Just Sharing since it opened in
1992. She is pictured here with a mirrorwork
cushion from St Mary’s, run by a community of
nuns in India.
