Arundel Eccentrics & The Business Roller Coaster Ride... Thirty years ago I started a business with 2 friends I had met while working evenings at the Body Shop HQ in Littlehampton. Ambiance. We set up in a then very down at heel 19th century  brewery warehouse in the backstreets of Arundel.. ..once part of the Arundel Swallow Brewery ....it was business on a very tight budget. How we did it I'll never know. Nass and I were broke at the time. Body Shop friends helped us clear and paint the warehouse. Gordon Roddick the Body Shop CEO attended the low key opening and became a regular visitor. Our landlord let us use an empty shop one summer as the warehouse was  off the beaten track. We bought furniture from Worthing junk shops and were teaching ourselves from old books to paint and decorate. We decided to try decoupage. Which led us off on a tangent and.. ...we worked on decoupage decorated furniture for a top antique dealer...