Ashby Carpets & Flooring Blog

Celebrating 40 Years Trading and our Shops 30th Birthday this September.

This month we proudly celebrate 40 years trading and the 30th birthday of our carpets and flooring shop! To mark the occasion we wanted to share the story of how we came to find our shop all those years ago...

The Great Storm that took place in the night of October 15th and the early hours of October 16th 1987 was the worst storm in the UK in nearly 300 years. In the event winds gusted at 115 miles an hour across the UK causing death and distruction. Peoples lives were altered in many different ways. But it actually changed our lives for the better. We were a young couple with two small children and we had been desperately trying to find a shop in the area to continue to run our flooring business from. We had been told by Wokingham Council that we could no longer run our business from home and had to find an alternative way to carry it on. It had been a stressful and worrying time as we were unable to find a business premises that suited our needs and we were beginning to run out of ideas of what to do next. On the morning following the storm we were surprised to be greeted on our doorstep by a little Dove who had become injured in the strong winds. He couldn’t fly so we placed him in an abandoned cat basket and went up to the local pet shop on Silverdale Road, Earley to buy him some seed. It was then we discovered that the old bakers shop next door to the pet shop was up for let. We put in our offer and were lucky to be accepted as the new tenants of 13a The Parade, Earley in August 1988. We opened our shop on September 26th 1988. We are now proudly celebrating this exciting milestone.

We are so thankful to the little injured Dove who visited us that morning after the storm as without it we would never had been aware of the shops availability. It truly helped change our lives and we have never looked back.

To celebrate our anniversary we are offering 10% off all orders over £300 for 30 days from Wednesday 26th September - Thursday 25th October when you quote the code 30YEARSWEB.



There will also be a chance during that 30 day period to enter a competition in store to win either a luxury hamper, Kindle Fire HD or a bottle of Rose Cava. All entry fees will be donated to Cancer Research UK. And if you head over to our facebook page you can enter our competition to win a £30 Amazon gift voucher plus also find all the terms and conditions.

We want to say a huge thank you to all our family, friends and loyal customers for all your support over the last 40 years! Here's to many many more years trading...