Wanted: Junk Shops

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

This is aimed mostly at Dubliners, but if you live anywhere that I might turn up, feel free to tell me about your local purveyors. I’m planning a series of collage-style projects, and I need stuff to go into them. I’m thinking of old postcards, newspaper clippings, doorknobs, hinges, toy soldiers, cogs, old hand tools, railway tickets and, well, similar junk. Does anyone know of “antique” shops, flea markets, car boot sales, or the like that sell this kind of stuff? Ideally, I’m thinking of rummage boxes marked “Any thing in this Box £1″, but that might not happen anymore.

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[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

Although some of the charity shops in town have gone a bit upmarket (particularly oxfam) there's a shop on Sth Gt Georges street a few doors up from the Oxfam that sometimes has a lot of, well, junk.
On Liffey Street there are two, a barnados and a gorta shop that seem to have a tonne of junk regularly.

Capel Street has a few as well, the Cancer Soc shop is one of the nicer ones but once you pass abbey street theres one on the same side as the cancer shop that goes back and back and even smells like one of those old-fashioned charity shops. Opposite it are two, one of which is much cleaner and bright but the other one has some interesting junk occasionally. Around the corner on Mary's street is another charity shop that occasionally has rumage bins.

For this info I deserve info if they're selling wool/needles dude!