Mad Harry's Collectables

Petrol bowsers, enamel signage, old telephones and crate after crate of garagenalia fill this Boorowa Street warehouse, one of the larger collectables destinations in the Hilltops. The stock runs from genuine antiques to mid-century ephemera, crockery, glassware, records, vintage toys and salvaged car parts, laid out in aisles sorted by type rather than piled at random, which makes the browsing unusually navigable for a shop of its scale. It is the sort of place that rewards the collector with a specific quarry as readily as the traveller killing an hour, and it turns up on regional tourism trails for exactly that reason. In a farming district where sheds and clearing sales are part of the fabric, a shop that gathers the region's cast-offs and curiosities under one roof has a natural logic, and a steady supply of stock to draw on.