My name is Carmel Tynan and I was born in 1942, I’m guessing I’m extremely mature now. I’ve been coming down here with my children on Saturday mornings and it’s the highlight of the week. I always like coming down because you’ll never know what you’ll find, from socks to flowers. I’ve bought something off most of the traders, most of the people in my family have something from here, underpants or trousers or something. When my sister comes here from London I always drag her down and she loves it.

Down here in the auction I’ve bought cars, a caravan, a jeep… This was amusing because I was with my husband then and they gave me this estimate saying, this will go for about five hundred pounds and I got very excited thinking, gosh that’s really good.

My husband’s friend was with me and he was a very macho man, and he could not believe that I was making this decision, and that I was going to bid. So he got behind me like someone at a bull fight and shouted ‘go on Carmel, go on!’ whilst I was doing the bidding and I paid much more than I thought I would.

Carmel