page_title: Hawkin's Bazaar
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hawkin's Bazaar / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hawkins Bazaar, High Ousegate, York, North Yorkshire. Taken on the afternoon of Wednesday the 12th of June 2013.
context_page_description: Hawkin's Bazaar is a British novelty gift and toy shop chain based in Norwich, England. Hawkin's Bazaar offers a range of unusual toys, gifts, gadgets and curiosities. They source out-of-the-ordinary products and offer something different, a range of toys and gifts that will appeal to many ages and tastes.
context_section_description: The company now known as Hawkin's Bazaar started life as a niche mail order toy company founded by Sid Templer in 1973 in Corbridge, Northumberland. The name of the company at that time, TOBAR, is from the first few letters of his son's forenames, Toby and Barnaby. Tobar remains the name of the parent company to this day.
  In 1976 the mail order company moved premises into an old disused public house, formerly named the Hawk Inn, and decided to adapt the name for themselves as Hawkin's & Co; Bazaar was added to the name later.
  In 1989 the company moved premises again to a former farm, Elm House in St Margaret South Elmham; Toby took over the running of the company from his father, Sid. It was also around this time that he company opened its first retail shop in Salisbury. In 1998 the company launched their websites, shortly after beginning to open retail locations across the United Kingdom. Also in the 1990s the company began to sell into the European markets and opened a European wholesale branch, TOBAR France in 2010.
  In 2007 the company moved to a £10 million facility in Worlingham, before moving to Norfolk in 2013. Also in 2007 they launched a sub-brand, Stocking Fillers.
  2013 marked the company's 40th year in business. Whilst a lot has changed since Hawkin's Bazaar launched as a mail order service, the company still refers to its original values with taglines such as “Unusual gifts for every occasion, since 1973” and “Suppliers to Father Christmas since 1973” adorning their mail order catalogues and other communications.
  In addition to high street shops and mail order catalogues the company continues to operate online. Its website was updated and re-launched in August 2012.
caption: A branch of Hawkin's Bazaar on High Ousegate, York.
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