Exchange and Mart

And, you know, when, when...

You know, I started by wildfowling, ordering a single barrel shotgun from the Exchange & Mart, can you believe? And it arriving in a brown box with a...

that had burst open and the stock was sticking out of it, and my father going ballistic because I'd bought this Bakel, I think it was [chuckles] for 30 shillings, uh, and then went wildfowling.

And you progress then from, in my age group, to a double barrel, and then, and it, it...

Yeah

... and The Express Newspapers and the Daily Star, and something called Exchange & Mart.

I don't know if you remember Exchange & Mart.

Yeah, I do, I remember.

Okay.

We should really think about it."

[laughs]

And he said, "Great, what should we do on the internet?" And I said, "Well, why don't we move Exchange & Mart onto the internet?" And so we created one of the first big websites in the UK in the mid-'90s, uh, which was Exchange & Mart, and it was incredibly successful, a classified, uh, site on the internet.

Clovis had the presence of mind to maintain a composed exterior.

Privately he was calculating how long it would take to procure a box of fancy mice through the agency of the Exchange and Mart as a species of hush-money.

Even in a delicate situation like the present, Agnes Resker could not endure to remain too long in the background.

"Why did I ever come down here?" she asked dramatically.