Business Feature

Classic Gifts & Engravers

Three cheers to Classic Gifts & Engravers who are celebrating their ‘diamond’ 60 th year in service.

Opened as a gift shop in 1946 by Iris and Norman Farebrother, the shop was originally called Lucky Finds. Today it is owned and run by their grandson, Nigel, who first got involved with the shop at the tender age of 8 years old, when he would wash the windows. He officially started working in the shop aged 15, after leaving school.

The trophy and engraving business grew from when Nigel’s father ran the business. He was a very keen sportsman and was involved in many local teams. A friend asked him to produce a trophy for a local sporting occasion, and demand just escalated from then.

These days it is Nigel who does the engraving, and not only on trophies, they can engrave glass, metal and plastic as well. Nigel has also diversified into selling jewellery, pictures, binoculars, crystal and a fine selection of signed prints by famous sportsmen.

Nigel has some very loyal customers who have been regular visitors for nearly 40 years. Nigel is proud of his business and the excellent reputation it holds. He said: “My grandparents would be proud that we can still compete against the big multiples. It’s about supplying a good quality, value-for-money product”.

Putting Litter In Its Place Campaign

Poulton Home Zone has been honoured as the ‘Urban Traffic Scheme of the Year 2005’ at the Highways Magazine Excellence Awards.

Lancaster City Council is encouraging all of us to work together to ‘put litter in its place’.

In April the council launched a district wide campaign, to coincide with new powers it has received to crack down on litter louts.

Some 100 council staff, including street wardens, environmental health officers, parks and grounds maintenance staff, dogwardens, recycling officers, binmen and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are now able to issue £75 on the spot fines to anyone dropping litter, gum or cigarette butts in the street.

In June the campaign will focus on cigarette butts and the council will be giving away free portable stubb pouches to the public.

The pouches are pocket sized and allow gum and cigarette butts to be stored until they can be dropped into a bin rather than dropped in the street.

Its airtight design means that smoke odours are locked inside, and it can be emptied when full and reused again.
The stubb pouches will be available free from all council buildings including Morecambe Town Hall reception, Morecambe Tourist Information Centre and Poulton Neighbourhood Management office.