MOST people keep them in a cupboard or sat inconspicuously on the kitchen table.

For aptly-named Janet and Trevor Salter, however, salt and pepper pots take up an entire wall of their home.

The couple, who live in Oakley just north of Waterperry, have collected 687 pairs in the past three decades.

Burgers, boiled eggs, buses and even Batman feature in their vast assortment of seasoning sets.

Mrs Salter got in touch with the Oxford Mail after reading a story this paper ran earlier this month, about an Oxford couple who also collect salt and pepper pots.

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Their 110-pair collection is now display at a museum in Devon, and Mrs Salter realised her own collection might be worthy of a mention.

She said she could not even remember which set first started it off, but that it must have been about 30 years ago.

Mrs Salter said: “It just started with one or two and then relatives started getting us more for birthday and Christmas presents.

“We do quite a lot of travelling and bring different ones home with us.

“It was just a couple of shelves and then it grew more and more. I never thought it would [grow to this] when we started, no way.”

The collection is neatly lined up on wall shelves next to their staircase, and Mrs Salter said people were generally 'astounded' to see their display for the first time.

The pair married in 1988 and have been collecting ever since.

Mrs Salter described her husband as ‘Oxford born and bred’ while she herself grew up in Abingdon.

They are both volunteers for Tiggywinkles wildlife rescue centre in Haddenham, near Thame.

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Mrs Salter said although she did not have a favourite as such, she was most fond of the animal-related sets for that reason.

She said they do not look in a specific place for new additions but they will only spend £3 or £4 on each set, and that they have picked up a few in charity shops.

The retiree, who worked for 18 years at a family-run company in Thame, said: “It could be absolutely anything, we have quite a selection.

“We’ve got cricketers, policemen, Batman and Robin, an Only Fools and Horses set, glass ones, silver ones, plastic ones, a mother of pearl one - there’s no end.”

Asked if they had any plans to display them to the public, she said: “We are quite happy with them here.

“We take them down every four years and get them all washed off and put back in their sets.

“That’s quite a mammoth task.”

Mrs Salter said although it was ‘rare’, they had been gifted with a couple of duplicate sets before, such is the extent of their collection.

Those were donated to charity and she said when they can no longer enjoy the collection, they would like it to be sold and for the money to be donated to an animal rescue charity.