Shopping

The salon may have opened in its current iteration on Queens Road in July 2022, but the minds behind Yard & Quarter came together long before that. The desire to open a salon that embraced sustainable principles was important to James and Renee from the beginning.

I’m forever harping on about how lucky we are here with our abundance of great, interesting and well-curated independent shops. In this feature we celebrate seven of them that we hope, cover some of your Christmas bases for gift buying this year.

Each of the shops in this guide has donated £15 to the brilliant, local charity: Seaview Project. This year, shopping local means more than ever!

Vinyl records are cumbersome. They’re delicate and are susceptible to warping in the heat. They can be annoying to flip over. But they’re also perhaps the only piece of media technology that has remained unchanged in 75 years, when the first mass-produced 33rpm disc was manufactured for Columbia Records in 1948.

Words and photos by Caitlin Lock Hastings is an ever-popular relocation choice for city dwellers in search of a better quality of life....