contemporary jewellery gallery & school

www.victoriasewart.com

The gallery is unlike conventional jewellers. We are continually on the hunt for extraordinary, inspiring work. The resulting collections are created from conventional materials with precious metals and stones to contemporary ones including acrylics, Formica, silicone and recycled materials.

There is a huge amount of talent and skill right across Britain and the Southwest, so local designers are well represented.

We are extremely proud to be able to represent and showcase the very best jewellery designers who are continually committed to creating the most outstanding and imaginative work.

Colourful Creations

For more Jewellery, Online Shop and Jewellery making classes visit our website

Sumptuous Golds Innovative Designs

T: 01752 220011 (gift vouchers available)

Close to Torquay’s Inner Harbour, Fleet Walk car park is not only a convenient place to leave your car whilst shopping or taking a boat trip, seeing a show, going for a meal, meeting friends for a coffee or a drink or just going for a stroll around the harbour area.

Fleet Walk shopping centre is packed with interesting independent stores and national chains. “It is a hidden treasure and people don’t realise it, a part of Torquay that is going unnoticed”, said John Seymour, Centre Manager at Fleet Walk Shopping Centre.

17th-century Dutch-style merchant houses. There’s a branch of Country Cheeses here as well as art and gift shops and interiors stores.

The Topsham Bookshop is well worth a look, both for the second-hand and antiquarian stock and for the whitewashed and gabled building. When you’re done shopping, have a wander down the narrow Goat Walk along the estuary to take in the town’s fabled sunsets.

Exmouth has a fashion gem in the form of Caramel Clothing, as well as a good selection of galleries and gift shops. At Chagford on Dartmoor, Proper Job is a wonderful community reuse centre: an Aladdin’s cave of second-hand treasures from clothes to furniture to books.

Head to the coast and the seaside resorts of Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth for more independent gems. These quirky towns pride themselves on their excellent selection of unique shops and boutiques.

On the English Riviera, Paignton features beach shops, family-run businesses and offbeat stores along colourful Winner Street, including Patchwork The Store, an offbeat gift and lifestyle shop whose profits go to the Patchwork House Women’s Centre. Fore Street in Brixham is an excellent place for gift shops and local arts and crafts. The fantastical Brixham Steam Packet Company sells wonderful marine memorabilia, and you can pause for a cream tea in their café.

If you’re mad for mainstream, steer clear of Totnes – this hippy town is all about wholefoods, organic and ecofriendly stores. Conker Shoes have been hand-crafting soft leather footwear since 1977.

At China Blue you can purchase pottery, throw your own pot and eat at their Wild Thyme Deli & Kitchen. Arcturus Books houses mind, body and spirit titles plus crystal and incense, while the Devon Harp Centre sells everything from healing harps to harp sheet music.

Drift Records stock new music, with a policy that ranges all the way from left-field minimal tech house (no, us neither) to home-recorded roots music from the exotic Appalachian Mountains!

The sailing town of Salcombe is one of the prettiest in the region, with steep streets heading down to a

Trading in Newton Abbot since 1924, Austins has grown from a small shop to the largest independent department store in the Southwest with four stores situated around the clock tower in the town centre. We offer an amazing variety of products and famous brands with extensive fashions, accessories, gifts, cosmetics and fragrances, a specialist mens store, homewares, linens, specialist curtains, upholstery, beds and carpets, and an incredible toys and sports store.

Our recently refurbished 160 seat coffee shop is well worth a visit for our famous homemade scones and an appetising variety of homemade dishes.

As a totally independent, family-owned store, our aim is to make sure we offer you a friendly, special and complete shopping experience.

Conker is a small family-run business with a team of friendly shoe fitters and of course, our highly skilled shoe makers. Combining leather uppers and rubber soles of high quality, we use traditional techniques to make our footwear here in Devon. Our workshop is located behind our High Street shop so when you come to visit you can see where your shoes will be made. We make shoes to order so you can be as creative or as classic as you want. We also have a large range of shoes in each size and style available to buy off the shelf.

Conker shoes have been designed and constructed to be repaired and resoled extending their life and reducing your footprint on our planet.

You can find us among the many independent quirky shops of Totnes, a beautiful Elizabethan town situated on the River Dart.

sandy beach and a bay bobbing with colourful boats. Enticing Fore Street is lined with shops catering to the yachting brigade, such as Jack Wills, Crew Clothing and Quba & Co. if you’re looking for blue and white striped t-shirts, deck shoes and other nautical-styled clobber this is the place to be!

At the market town of Kingsbridge north of Salcombe, head to Fore Street where the appealing array of oldfashioned stores seems to belong to another era. You’ll see bespoke Herring Shoes, fishmonger Catch of the Day, Salcombe Meat Company and many more.

Ashburton, which can be found on the edge of Dartmoor, has long been a hot spot for antique lovers, while the South Hams town of Modbury has retained a lovely streetscape of traditional stores, ranging from Devonshire Fine Art and Mackgills Delicatessen.

In Dartmouth, Starburst Boutique sources cutting-edge women’s fashion from international designers, while there’s some fascinating local history on view at the stalls of Dartmouth Old Market.

For cool, offbeat buys make for the Barbican area in Plymouth. It’s home to the colourful Old Quay House Tuck Shop and 45 Southside Gallery, which focuses on vibrant contemporary craft. For maximum quirkiness try The House That Jack Built arcade, which houses a plethora of vintage and esoteric outlets and is fronted by a psychedelic mural of the Last Judgement.

Head north to the ancient town of Tavistock for what must be one of the oldest markets in existence. Tavistock Pannier Market was granted a Royal Charter in 1105 and has been operating here ever since. It sells antiques and crafts and offers themed markets on Saturdays, all in a wonderful castellated Victorian building. The Tavistock Goose Fair, which was established in 1116, also survives to this very day.

Exeter is the place for high-street shopping – there’s a branch of John Lewis and the Princesshay shopping centre has more than 60 shops, including the very best highstreet brands as well as some more specialised and independent stores.

Trago Mills near Newton Abbot is a huge bargain retailer which offers massive discounts on carpets, furniture, sports gear, fuel, books, DIY and major electronics brands.

Drake Circus in Plymouth is the largest shopping centre in the area, where you’ll find a range of top brands and high-street stores alongside a huge choice of places to eat and drink.

If you love a good bit of browsing, there’s plenty to keep you occupied in South Devon. Especially if independent shops are your thing. Stock up on local meats, chocolates and cheese, buy a one-off piece of art or check out the many craft stores for that perfect souvenir.