FEATURE SETTING UP SHOP HARRINGTON BROOKSHAW JEWELLERS


Setting up shop


Fulfilling a lifelong dream for owners Andrew Brookshaw and Paul Harrington, Guildford-based Harrington Brookshaw Jewellers represents the pair’s first independent venture into the world of jewellery. TOM DAVIS reports


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arge jewellery brands are increasingly dominating the jewellery landscape, whether it be online or high street retail. In a highly competitive and very mature market, it is a brave step for an aspiring high street jeweller to focus on unbranded, but that’s exactly what newly-opened Harrington Brookshaw Jewellers has planned.


The store was founded by Andrew Brookshaw and Paul Harrington, who had both previously worked in jewellery retail. At 18, Brookshaw worked


for Goldsmiths and worked his way up through various positions from sales to supervisor and assistant manager. “I think it was inevitable that after college I was drawn to applying for positions with jewellers. I spent a lot of my childhood in Bath visiting Mallory Jewellers and many antique fairs with my grandparents who had a keen interest in jewellery and antiques,” he says. From there he joined independent jeweller Preston & Duckworth in Guildford where he stayed for 11 years - as manager for the last five.


Meanwhile, Harrington’s experience was in high end men’s fashion retail, but he always had a keen interest in watches, before he too moved over to Preston & Duckworth, where he worked for nine years. Both Harrington and Brookshaw ran Preston & Duckworth, and the owner gave them a great deal of autonomy in running the store.


They had always dreamed of opening their own outfit, but despite on-and-off conversations for more than three years, they couldn’t find the right moment.


‘‘ February 2017 | jewelleryfocus.co.uk


They had always dreamed of opening their own store, but despite on-and-off conversations for more than three years, they couldn’t find the right moment


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