The Base Camp

8.2 / 10

opens at 10:00 tomorrow

Vintage shop

We are the leading supplier of spare parts for paraffin, (kerosene), lamps, stoves heaters and much more! Who are we? Why are we? Our roots were as a camping shop based in Littlehampton, Sussex, on the south coast of England alongside the beautiful chalk Downs. Since the beginning in 1986 our policy has always been to stock spares for the products we sell which originally included camping stoves and lamps. Read more Over time we became the main supplier for traditional stove spares in the South as other businesses moved to stocking gas stoves. In the early 1990's we acquired the entire stove spares stock from a wholesaler who was also moving away from traditional stoves. We built a basic Website and offered parts to customers outside of our local area. We were contacted by stove and lamp enthusiasts all over the World, keen to keep their favorites going or get them back into service again. The spares side of the business moved out of the shop and upstairs to a separate office and store to cope with picking and packing of the orders. Stocking of lamp glass led to inquiries for oil lamp chimneys which were added to the range. This led to enquiries for oil lamp wick which was also added...! Then the local Garden Centre decided to end selling wicks and parts for paraffin heaters and, as we sold wicks already, we purchased their stocks and took over those customers too..! Our range of liquid fuel spares grew as did the Website and an increasing amount of time was being spent on helping and advising customers with traditional stoves, lamps & heaters. Major Town Centre development dealt a serious blow to the camping business followed one year later by the Foot & Mouth disease outbreak which closed campsites, footpaths & holiday centres across the Country. The camping shop was unable to continue despite eighteen months of struggling to survive. After a sale the remaining camping stock was sold to Ockendens, a 200 year old Hardware business just next door, who turned this into a small camping department in their own store. Behind Ockendens was an unused area with a room right at the top of the building, referred to as 'The Loft'. After the disposal of our shop this became our office and renamed the 'Lamp Loft'. In September 2006 we bought all our stock under one roof with a shop and storerooms in an old bakery building in Littlehampton just off the High Street. The shop had the larges Update description

Address:

Unit 16, Alfric Square, Maxwell Road
Peterborough

Telephone:

+441733234333

Web site:

base-camp.co.uk ⇒

Opening hours:

Monday: 10:00-17:30

Tuesday: 10:00-17:30

Wednesday: 10:00-17:30

Thursday: 10:00-17:30

Friday: 10:00-17:30

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2017-11-16
Not lamp or heater related but perhaps it says something about us.? Had to stop on the way home to take this pic!

2017-11-14
A customer popped in today to buy another wick for his heater. He bought the box and a receipt to make sure he got the right one. Unfortunately we had to tell him that as he made his previous two wicks last over 40 years the new one would cost rather more

2017-10-19
Just arrived..! We have managed to secure just a few of the classic Svea 123R 'Climber' stoves. Available from stock at £110.95 whilst they last!

2017-10-03
Normally I don't really like 'Frankenlamps' but whenever I light up this little 'Tilleymus #96' it makes me smile.

2017-10-02
Something which fascinates me in this 'hobby' of ours is the snapshot of the life and time that can be found in the paper ephemera. Below is an invoice from Tilley dated 29th November 1940. Britain is at War and resources are in short supply. The customer

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The Base Camp has a total of 5 visitors (checkins) and 982 likes.

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