Football legends Matt Le Tissier and Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris cut the ribbon at the opening of A1 Sporting Memorabilia’s huge new state-of-the-art operations and warehouse centre in Christchurch, Dorset.

Together with sister brand, Icons.com, we have expanded to include two new units that will house more staff, more space and – most important of all – more memorabilia.

Blue skies hung overhead as the doors to our new home were flung open for the very first time with Le Tissier and Harris posing for photos and joining in the celebrations. Shortly after, we took full advantage of our all-new dedicated signings area to conduct private signing sessions with both of the English football legends, christening the warehouse with the first collection of memorabilia to be signed on-site.

The move to a new and improved centre underlines the commitment of both A1 Sporting Memorabilia and Icons.com to providing our customers with the widest range of top-class, authentic signed memorabilia.

A new in-house framing area will provide us with much faster production and dispatch times while quality control is also markedly increased – giving you, the customer, only the best of the best.

Icons Shop Limited CEO Dan Jamieson said: “We’ve moved in here for ten years.

“The point of that is that we’re committed. We’re committed to the area, we’re committed to what we do and we’re committed to the world of memorabilia.

“So, we’ve only just started. We just want to send our products around the world and bring people closer to their heroes. Coming here is just one part of that.”