If you love the thrill of the hunt — the patina, the stories, the one-off finds you simply won’t see on the high street — Ross-on-Wye is your place. Tucked into this beautiful market town is the Ross-on-Wye Vintage & Design Shopping Trail, a curated wander around the centre that brings together specialist independent shops offering antiques, collectables, bric-a-brac, vintage and retro clothing, jewellery, arts, crafts and furniture.

There’s something strangely addictive about life in a reclamation yard! It’s muddy when wet, dusty when hot, and often noisy and chaotic. But it’s also bursting with beauty, history, and the thrill of discovery. Once you’ve spent a day surrounded by salvage, there’s no going back to ordinary retail. Before I had the chance to open my little black shipping-container shop at Ross Reclamation , I worked there for over a year. Initially, I thought I’d just be selling a few archit

Hello and welcome to the new Ross Retro blog! I’m Helen. My degree is in interior design, but my passion is as a vintage hunter, retro lover, furniture upcycler and all-round lover of beautiful old things. You’ll usually find me tucked inside our black shipping-container shop at Ross Reclamation , surrounded by vintage interiors, reclaimed furniture , and the wonderful chaos of a busy, working salvage yard in Ross-on-Wye . This blog is where I’ll share some of our larger coll