Car boot sale

These groups of scientists see the rotation of surplus household stock as essential as it prevents waste and disposal costs, and also produces a small community where thriftiness and entrepreneurship flourish.

Car boot sales are a way of attracting a large group of people in one place to recycle useful but unwanted domestic items that otherwise might have been thrown away.

Advertised opening times are often not strictly adhered to: often the nature of the venue makes it impossible to prevent keen bargain hunters from wandering in as soon as the first stallholders arrive.

It has been said that Father Harry Clarke, a Catholic priest from Stockport, introduced the car boot sale to the UK as a charity fundraiser, after seeing a similar event or trunk fair in Canada, while on holiday there in the early 1970s.

[7] The title or name 'Boot Fair' was coined by one of the originators and organisers, Barry Peverett, in order to create the curiosity that ultimately ensured that car boot sale events became a run-away popular success and a burgeoning nationwide weekend activity.

Barry Peverett ran successful boot fairs using the name Rainbow events across Kent in locations such as the Stour centre in Ashford [8] and Maidstone Market amongst many others.

Trading Standards will, in return, commit to support the market operator and provide information to them in relation to the sale of infringing products.