Distinctly British is a store dedicated to finding unique, quality goods from around the UK an bringing them together on a single e-commerce website. Many of our suppliers are small specialist manufacturers and designers running a family business, often involving more than one generation of the owners. You can find out a bit more about our suppliers by using the link at the bottom of each product.
We do not specialise in one particular type of goods - rather we present the ranges of our suppliers in a department store presentation.
The store is split into 7 main 'shops', Gift Shop, The Hamper Shop, The Picnic hamper Shop, Household & Garden, Country Life, Colletables, The British Clothing Shop and British Heritage.
The Gift Shop is home to a broad range of gift items to suit a wide varieth of tastes and pockets, from hand painted ceramic pottery from Lorna, stunning architectural models and bookends, models of famous buildings, from Timothy Richards, clocks including miniature models incorporating quartz clocks to classic hand made mantel clocks and traditional brass carriage clocks. We have a wide range of Quality Pocket Watches from Woodford including chome plated pocket watches, sterling silver pocket watches, gold plated pocket watches, half hunter pocket watches, skeleton pocket watches, quartz pocket watches and 17 jewelled movement pocket watches. We have a broad range of silver giftware from small sterling silver animal studies by Lexi Dicks , silver plated barware and gifts for the office to a delightful range of Silver Gifts for Ladies. Traditional British Wooden Jigsaws in a wide ranges of designs and sizes mean provide hours of fun for all tastes, ages and skill levels.
Our Household & Garden section covers a wide range of goods. For indoors there is Quality Nottingham Lace Tableware, Specialist Reading L:ights, fantastic Castle Jigsaw tables. willow log baskets and kitchen cupboard baskets, hand made barometers and fantastic mantel clocks including quartz mantel clocks, 8 day mechanical mantel clocks, radio controlled mantel clocks, regulator clocks, veneered quartz and 8-day mantel clocks, solid mahogany mantel clocks and bracket clocks. and carriage clocks . For the garden we have a stunning range of Gothic and Architectural Bird Tables and Feeders, Sundials from simple wall mounted sundials to imposing armillary spheres, willow and hazel fencing, hurdles and border edging, willow and wood planters.
Country Life features Traditional Country Clothing including Gentlemens Country Clothing, Ladies Country Clothing and Kids Country Clothing and as well as the traditional moleskin trousers, moleskin waistcoats, moleskin shirts and moleskin coats, there is a practical and fashionable range of country coats for both gentlemen and ladies and a range of embroidered embroidered sweatshirts and fleeces from Radish. We are proud to have introduced a trut bespoke tailoring servive for a wide range of Bespoke Tweed Jackets, bespoke tweed trousers and bespoke tweed waistcoats as well as matching bespoke accessories ,made-to measure cavalry twill trousers , made-to measure moleskin trousers, made-to measure moleskin waistcoats and made-to measure doeskin waistcoiats. We also feature a wide range of folding walking sticks and shooting sticks.
The Hamper Shop sells probably the widest range of foood hampers and gift baskets in the YU with ranges including Christmas Hampers, Classic Hampers, Luxury Hampers, Special Occasions Hampers, Port and Stilton Hampers, Gift Baskets, Wine Gifts, Smoked Salmon Hampers, Pamper Gift Boxes, Gourmet Food Hampers, Hampers for something to celebrate, Champagne Gifts and hampers, Chocolate Gifts, Valentine Hampers - Lover's Gifts Organic Gift Hampers, Hampers for Picnics Special Events and Entertaining, Birth Congratulations Hampers, Longlife Hampers, Orkney Hampers featuring only productsfrom the Orkney and Shetland Islands, Flower Baskets, Hampers for Diabetics, Beer Hampers and Father's Day Hampers.
The Picnic Hamper Shop contains a wide range of traditional wicker picnic hampers fitted with plates cups, cutlery and everything you need for a classic traditional British picnic and picnic accessories incluing unbreakable picnic glasses made from crystal clear polycarbonate plastic, Picnic backpacks and totes, picnic rugs.
British Heritage contains some highly collectable miniature royal crowns and models of British Architecture as well as some stunning photographs of the English Countryside by John Howard Davies and a range of Quill Pens and Parchment as well as a genealogy service. |
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