If you are searching Rhuthun for a gift or present this year, your choice has gotten smaller.
Three ‘traditional’ local gift shops have recently closed. Iris shut in early April, the Elysium part of the Juice Bar closed in March, and Anrhegion closed last week. None were particularly long-standing gift emporia and they join vanished names such as Judith Barnet, Celf a Chrefft and Rosie’s.
Why did they shut and what’s left?
There’s very little left, in terms of ‘traditional’ gifts. Elfair is perhaps the best bet and it’s mostly local or Welsh, too. King’s has a range and Hide Away offers something. The temporarily located Craft Centre now in the town itself offers ‘gifts’ to a point but being both arty and pricey, are hardly ‘traditional’. More art than gift.
Why did they shut? This may be answered by looking at what’s recently opened. It may indicate what people want and a change of tastes. There’s almost a new bread of gift shop springing up, some of which sell gifts as part of another side to their businesses. They concentrate on anything but the traditional ‘knick-knack’ type of gift and might be considered as somewhat upmarket. This genre includes Nelson’s, the soft furnishers at the bottom of Clwyd Street, and the new Twenty-3 on the corner of Castle Mews. None of these three are easily categorised. All have positioned themselves in such a way as to reduce their vulnerability. We trust they will endure.
Meanwhile, the three closures have added two vacant gaps the townscape.
Three ‘traditional’ local gift shops have recently closed. Iris shut in early April, the Elysium part of the Juice Bar closed in March, and Anrhegion closed last week. None were particularly long-standing gift emporia and they join vanished names such as Judith Barnet, Celf a Chrefft and Rosie’s.Why did they shut and what’s left?
There’s very little left, in terms of ‘traditional’ gifts. Elfair is perhaps the best bet and it’s mostly local or Welsh, too. King’s has a range and Hide Away offers something. The temporarily located Craft Centre now in the town itself offers ‘gifts’ to a point but being both arty and pricey, are hardly ‘traditional’. More art than gift.
Why did they shut? This may be answered by looking at what’s recently opened. It may indicate what people want and a change of tastes. There’s almost a new bread of gift shop springing up, some of which sell gifts as part of another side to their businesses. They concentrate on anything but the traditional ‘knick-knack’ type of gift and might be considered as somewhat upmarket. This genre includes Nelson’s, the soft furnishers at the bottom of Clwyd Street, and the new Twenty-3 on the corner of Castle Mews. None of these three are easily categorised. All have positioned themselves in such a way as to reduce their vulnerability. We trust they will endure.
Meanwhile, the three closures have added two vacant gaps the townscape.
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