Margaret McGuire had an interest in antiques from an early age. She started doing antique fairs at the Assembly rooms George Street with her husband. Working from one table she sold silver, china and jewellery. Whilst doing this she made several contacts with other people in the trade and ended up opening a shop in Causewayside with a colleague who sold furniture .This was an unsuccessful venture as all her jewellery was stolen. She left the shop after only 6 months and went back to doing Fairs in Edinburgh ,Glasgow, Stirling and Harrogate After a while she started working alongside Kenneth Bruce in a shop in St Stephen Street although working together they had separate businesses and this was very successful for the next 18 years. She remembers. this time as being great fun. We hear of the ' unsuitables' who they sent off to the Pawn shop, working at the Grassmarket fair during the Edinburgh Festival, buying trips to France and much much more