Nigel's first day in business was on a hot, windy and dusty day in May in 1989, at Portobello Road Street Market. He calculated, to have enough stock to last the day, he needed to pack his estate car to the gills. The big glass frames took an age to load up safely. So despite starting at the crack of dawn, he wasn't going to be super early for a choice of pitches. But still with huge excitement and optimism, he set off for London. But after a couple of miles, on the M11, the unthinkable happened. Bloody flat tyre! The day for Nigel turned into perhaps the longest and hardest he had had till that point. And instead of selling the forecasted hundreds or thousands of pounds of stuff, he sold one postcard size clip-frame for £1.

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