Chamber 11 - Five Crown
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Chamber 11 - Five Crown; this chamber was the first of the older chambers at the Packing House. Upon entering at the front counter and turning right into Chamber 10 - Crofton it was the first chamber on the right. It had openings into Chamber 12 - Snow, Chamber 20 - Red Delicious and Chamber 26 - Sheppards Delight.
In 1993 Pete and Bill Jones occupied this space selling antiques and old wares.
Then in the later 1990s Michael and Andrew McDonald held this space selling antique furniture.
Rumpoles Antiques & Fine Wares (Photo: 2012-02-24)
Rumpoles Antiques & Fine Wares took on Chamber 11 - Five Crown in 1997, immediately making it their own. Beryl Whitfield, the proprietor of Rumpoles sectioned off each corner of this chamber making it into a different smaller space within, giving the space a unique feel and look, unlike all the other chambers within the Packing House before or since. She once remarked that she wanted 'people to be able to discover' within this space.
Beryl ceased trading at Tyabb in late 2012 after being diagnosed with cancer, she passed away in August of that year.
In September 2012, after all of Beryl's items had been sold and the space cleared out there was a chance to look around the chamber, now that is was properly empty for the first time since 1993. It was decided to repaint the whole chamber and also re-carpet it, as the walls a variety of colours including; creamy white, orange and green along with some patterns. It was repainted in a neutral white.
On the 13th September 2012 it was fully re-carpeted.
On the 14th September 2012 Tom & Jan Hearn Antiques moved from Chamber 10 - Crofton into Chamber 11.
On the 18th September 2019 Jan Hearn Antiques moved into the neighbouring Chamber 20 - Red Delicious to take on three quarters of the space; Julian Phillips Antiques was consolidating his stock down to the other quarter of the space. Antique By Design took on Chamber 11 at this time (moving from Chamber 19 - Packham), adding flourishes such as different curtains and other interior design elements to make the space unique to the style that they were selling.
Note: Images have dates written in YEAR-MONTH-DAY format, as there is a mix of mediums of images with some having more exact dates than others. 
Screenshot: “The Great Outdoors” © Seven Network Limited 2003
More information
This chamber featured in an episode of “The Great Outdoors” in 2003.
This chamber once had a lot of natural light entering this chamber via two openings into Chamber 26 - Sheppards Delight, through the years one of these openings was blocked and as of 2023 both openings have been blocked.
Other obscurities
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