Vintage home shop leaves Perth for Newburgh
| Published date | 09 August 2022 |
| Publication title | Daily Record, The / Sunday Mail: Web Edition Articles (Scotland) |
The shop of unusual and up-cycled treasures battled valiantly through COVID but, recently, the collective of people who offered their carefully sourced stock agreed it was time for change.
Part-owner Lou Shaw, who previously had a shop inNewburgh- Kit and Caboodle - sent a social media post to her customers informing them of future plans.
“As most of our customers know Underneath the Arches has now closed,” it read.
“It’s a very funny feeling not to be going to open the shop, however it is time for a change. As they say, new beginnings.
“We pack up and head to our new location in Newburgh High Street in Fife.
“I would love to thank all our customers for all your business, support and kindness, and friendship. Without you there is no shop and it has been a truly amazing nine years.
“Fiona Normand from Home Interiors and Isla Duncan from Nook and Cranny will be popping up in Fiona’s revamped garden cabin inAbernethyin October.
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“Joanna Aitken from Little Drum and myself will pop up the weekend of September 2 in The Red Fox Studio in Newburgh, when I hope Louise from The Vunderkammer will pop up too with her quirky plants and planters.”
Speaking of the decision to leavePerth, Lou clarified it was not about lack of customers or spiralling costs so much as one of the four women who’d had Under the Arches had dropped out and they were ‘one man down’.
“The Perth shop was opened by myself and Joanna Aitken and latterly with Fiona and Isla we were a collective of four people,” she said. “When Isla left, we were on the lookout for a fourth but that didn’t materialise.
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“Underneath the Arches had loyal customers and plenty of them. I hope they will find us in our new locations.
“I had one lady who comes once every year from Liverpool. She was hugely disappointed to find we had closed for good in Perth last weekend.
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“Now I’m moving out, looking atPerthas a location, I’d say it has recently failed to play to its strengths.
“Perth was the old capital of Scotland and people want to see unique and individual...
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