The History of Heirlooms
Although I started my journey with Heirlooms in 2017, the full story started in 1986 when it was founded by gemmologist Gabrielle Young and her watchmaker husband Michael. The shop used to occupy the left-hand side of the current building at 21 South Street (where Paul’s the Barbers is now) but quickly moved into the […]
How do we know the age of a piece of jewellery we are selling?
Here’s the last in the series of Amy’s short blogs letting you into a few trade secrets of our shop. How do we know the age of a piece of jewellery we are selling? This must be the most asked question in the shop! We are jewellery detectives/historians and have to look for the clues […]