Derbyshire

Letterbox Love launches new Serenity Stones collection

Letterbox Love has launched a brand new Serenity Stones range of crystal healing jewellery. Kerry and Liam Bilson, a husband and wife team from Derbyshire who recently provided ‘positivity’ bracelets to some of the cast of Married at First Sight, launched Letterbox Love to create affordable jewellery with a “kindness”…

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CW Sellors secures £1.5m loan amid growth plans

CW Sellors has secured funds worth £1.5m from MEIF Maven Debt Finance, enabling the jewellery company to open a new design and manufacturing facility in Derbyshire, which will include a jewellery boutique retail store, exhibition space, tours for visitors, and a café. The loan has been made available via the…

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C W Sellors launches advent calendar collection

C W Sellors have launched a new collection of advent calendars, including 24 jewellery pieces and limited-edition gifts handcrafted in the UK.  Six different advent calendars are an offer in the collection, each with their individual contents and price point. The collections offer “significant saving” compared to purchasing the items…

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Drakes restores 70-year old watch

Drakes has restored a 70-year old timepiece after it received an email from a customer regarding a watch that was purchased from the family jewellers back in 1950. The timepiece was first purchased by Derrick Hewitt only weeks after Drakes first opened. The watch, which was bought for his sweetheart,…

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Roseanna Croft Jewellery moves to London

Roseanna Croft Jewellery has announced it is preparing to move to London in a bid to expand its business.  The Derbyshire-based brand, led by designer Roseanna Croft, will now operate from a new premises in Hatton Garden. Croft said: “I am extremely excited about our move to London and cannot…

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Gemporia partners with jewellery designer Rebecca Sellors

British TV jewellery channel, Gemporia, has partnered with British jewellery designer Rebecca Sellors of C.W Sellors to create an exclusive collection of Blue John jewellery. Discovered nearly two thousand years ago, Blue John is a rare natural variety of Fluorite found exclusively on one hillside in the heart of the…

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Horologist Dr John C Taylor OBE honoured with stamps

British horologist and inventor Dr John C Taylor OBE is to be honoured with a set of six postage stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post Office. Dr Taylor, 80, who was born in Buxton, Derbyshire and has lived in the Isle of Man for the greater part of…

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Recreated royal Victorian headdress to be ‘star attraction’ at IJL

C W Sellors, the Derbyshire-based fine jeweller, will showcase a recreated a royal headdress from a single, black and white photograph at this year’s IJL. The original was designed for Louise Duchess of Devonshire to wear at the Devonshire House Ball in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The…

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Family find luxury watch which fell from space

A £1,500 watch has been found 19 days after it was launched to the edge of the atmosphere by a jewellery firm from Derbyshire. The piece was launched into space on Space Exploration Day, 20 July by Derbyshire-based watch specialists, Jura Watches. It became part of a regional treasure hunt,…

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Luxury watch falls from outer space

A luxury watch worth £1,500 has landed in South Yorkshire, two weeks after it fell from space. The watch was sent into the stratosphere on Space Exploration Day, 20 July by Derbyshire-based watch specialists, Jura Watches. People from the area are welcome to look for the watch and whoever discovers…

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