Guys recently on visits to museums I have had the opportunity to go to a couple of UK tobacco shops and wished to share some thoughts. Feel free to add yours.
John Hollingsworth Celtenham. Great stock of tobaccos loose and in tins, service was a bit neutral and indifferent, plenty of nice pipes Rattrays, Parker, Peterson etc. Best of all its a small shop in a shopping centre/ mall surrounded by all the usual generic shops. I bought a tin of Punchbowle and some Zippo bits. Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery has a room devoted to Dr Edward Wilson who died with Captain Scott, and an amazing collection of Arts and Crafts Movement items.
Fredrick Tranter in Oxford is very quaint with good service and a reasonable choice of tobaccos, a good selection of pipes including many Dunhill items. It also has a cigar room. I bought a tin of Dunhill flake and some loose Balkan flake. Oxford needless to say is also worth a visit. In the Ashmolean Museum they have many terrific Japanese items and wonderful rooms of Anglo Saxon, Celtic and Medieval treasures.
Im hoping to visit Cardiff tobacconist and museum next week to see the studio pottery, Standing stones and buy some Rattrays tobacco.
owen
John Hollingsworth Celtenham. Great stock of tobaccos loose and in tins, service was a bit neutral and indifferent, plenty of nice pipes Rattrays, Parker, Peterson etc. Best of all its a small shop in a shopping centre/ mall surrounded by all the usual generic shops. I bought a tin of Punchbowle and some Zippo bits. Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery has a room devoted to Dr Edward Wilson who died with Captain Scott, and an amazing collection of Arts and Crafts Movement items.
Fredrick Tranter in Oxford is very quaint with good service and a reasonable choice of tobaccos, a good selection of pipes including many Dunhill items. It also has a cigar room. I bought a tin of Dunhill flake and some loose Balkan flake. Oxford needless to say is also worth a visit. In the Ashmolean Museum they have many terrific Japanese items and wonderful rooms of Anglo Saxon, Celtic and Medieval treasures.
Im hoping to visit Cardiff tobacconist and museum next week to see the studio pottery, Standing stones and buy some Rattrays tobacco.
owen