David Whitwell of Long Sutton Antique Centre, photographed in May 2017 for our Support Our Shops series, which a customer has criticised for selling framed photographs of Adolf Hitler.Photo: (TIM WILSON): SG130517-314TW.

A Long Sutton antique dealer has been accused of showing “very poor taste” after stocking framed photographs of the notorious Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler.

David Whitwell, who opened Long Sutton Antique Centre 20 years ago, was criticised in a letter by customer Nick Dellow who visited the store in London Road with his mother from Gedney Dyke last month.

Mr Dellow and his mother are reading way too much into it and their complaint seems very strange to me David Whitwell, of Long Sutton Antique Centre

In a letter to the Lincolnshire Free Press, Mr Dellow said: “While looking at a number of interesting items, I picked up a framed photograph and was shocked to see that it was of Adolf Hitler.