Beaumont Beds sells beds. This has at times created a soporific air which permeates other aspects of the business. Some time ago someone made a dynamic attempt to bring in the customers with a sign on the window saying 'Fire Sale - Total Store Refit Soon!' When this would actually be, we were not told. I do not recall the fire, or the total refit. Life carried on.
This announcement was accompanied by a display of a large double bed in the window, announcing 'Opening Offer' -(Was this shop opening or closing for a refit?)- a King Size Bedstead and Free Mattress for one hundred and ninety nine pounds and ninety-five pence. Oddly, the sign also said - 'if perfect, three hundred and forty nine pounds.'
Another double bed was for sale at two hundred and ninety-nine pounds - 'if perfect' it would have been on sale for a pound short of four hundred. This price, we were tld last year in the late autumn was an introductory offer to promote the 'new spring collection.' (Currently, at the end of September 2009, they are having a 'summer sale'.)
Another big display item lst year was a suite of Vietnamese-made bedroom furniture, comprising a king sized bed with huge carved head board, two large bedside cabinets, a massive chest of drawers/ dressing table and mirror and a large tall-boy. This ensemble cost a thousand pounds and came complete with deliberate wood-worm aging effect on the dressing table.
Other sources of beds in the neighbourhood include Premier Carpets and Furniture on Palmerston Road, Pure Life and Warren Evans, a firm which actually makes the beds it sells at Blackhorse Lane.
Next door to the New Fabric Shop and Nino's.
[Updated 27 September 2009]