Fultons Lakes Jewellery – 30 years creating special memories
Fultons Lakes Jewellery Works celebrated their 30th anniversary over lockdown but the attraction, which is a cafe, shop and workshop all under one roof, is back doing what they do best… creating unique jewellery.
The family-run business is owned by Brian and Zoe Fulton and is the first of its kind in Cumbria.
“It’s a far cry from our early beginnings,” said Master Jeweller Brian. “We started in my mum and dad’s cellar working for jewellery shops in Manchester. Later we opened a shop in Cheshire before moving to Threlkeld in 2004 and we moved into our present site in September in 2017.
We’ve been in this business for a long time and I have just had a customer travel up specially to see us from Oxford. They bought a ring from us back in 2000 and it was a real compliment they wanted to visit again after all that time.”
A trip to Fulton’s is an experience, the cafe sells luxury cakes and scones alongside quality hot and cold drinks. While you’re waiting for your coffee you can browse through a range of rings, necklaces, bracelets, bangles, earrings and much more. It’s all designed and created on the site and visitors can watch the experts at work making their unique jewellery.
While the cafe is currently only serving takeaway food, they are waiting on government advice and are ready to immediately open and offer the Fultons experience to the fullest.
“We might be boutique but we are the source, designers, makers and suppliers,” said Brian. “Because we make it here people are amazed at our prices, 97 percent of what’s sold in the UK comes from overseas but we don’t have to deal with importers and can save up to 20 percent on a comparable product elsewhere.
Our staff are highly experienced and have nearly 100 years of combined expertise creating jewellery. We can make anything, we do a lot of bespoke jewellery and customers can come in and discuss what they’d like. It doesn’t matter what their budget is, whether it’s large or small we can talk them through it and our clients can be involved from design to finish if they wish.
There’s nothing we can’t do, a while ago a customer came in and wanted something we hadn’t done before. It was a silver ring with an imprint replicating the surface of the moon, it was a challenge but we used high-resolution images and handcrafted a lunar landscape for them.”
Fultons uses traditional methods with the latest technology to create stunning pieces. With a glut of weddings postponed this year, disappointed couples might want to do something unique, take advantage of their local craftspeople and create some truly memorable wedding bands.
If you are out for the day in Keswick pop in and enjoy a coffee, have some cake and watch the experts at work. Why not have a chat about your ideas and treat yourself, or someone very special, to a unique and beautiful piece of jewellery which has been created from start to finish in the Lake District.
Drop into Henderson’s Yard, Main St, Keswick, visit www.fultonjewellery.co.uk, find them on Facebook @fultonjewellery or call 01768779798.
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