Times change, but standards do not. So say one of Beverley’s best-known and most iconic shops, and who are we to argue? Guest and Philips are as synonymous with Beverley as the Westwood and the Beverley Minster. While stores come and go, the local jewellers rightly enjoy a reputation for providing high-quality goods with high-quality service. The Saturday Market store’s owners Michael Guest and wife Anne this year bring up…
Artist Neil Helyard believes in pushing his students to the limits of their creativity. The Beverley painter has established himself as a popular and respected name on the British art scene for his diverse and mood-inspired portraits. It’s his very lack of a set style that he hopes to pass on to his students, whom he teaches in the sun-dappled front room of Hodgsons Pub on Flemingate. His manner and…
Former Minster and Beverley High School pupil Selina Marshall developed a talent for playing the violin whilst at school. A talent which has seen her achieve incredible success with her band Zenith & DJ Nadir in Mexico City where they have recently launched a new album. A passion for music inspired Selina and her band members to develop their own record label IDM Records (Impacto Diffusion Music). The label launched…
Ben Shires spent his youth reading books, cataloguing stamps and treading the boards in various school productions. The development of the Longcroft Performing Arts centre presented lanky-beanpole Ben with many exciting opportunities and after starring roles in Wind in The Willows, Sweeney Todd and My Fair Lady he developed a taste for the spotlight. After leaving school, Ben joined bands, recorded an E.P and made some hilariously clever YouTube videos…
Holistic healer, Kate Hare, was diagnosed with a chronic spinal problem and was told by doctors that she would be confined to a wheelchair by the age of 40. Kate decided to literally take matters into her own hands and began to learn Reiki as a means of healing herself. It wasn’t long before Kate started to benefit from this healing technique, it gave her a new lease of life…
If you are short on inspiration for gift ideas or are looking for luxury items at incredibly reasonable prices then take a trip down Well Lane and discover Tabatha’s, you won’t be disappointed. Owner Samantha Waud has achieved a personal ambition by bringing high quality products to the people of Beverley without breaking the bank. Samantha says: – “Opening a shop selling the type of goods we stock in Tabatha’s…
Wendy Wright of Butterfly Meadows, Beverley has transformed a hobby into a business. Wendy has combined a number of her skills to create a ‘Vintage Tea Party’. Wendy explains the reasoning behind her ideas; “I had the idea for ‘Wendy’s Vintage Tea Parties’ last year after my daughter’s wedding at a local hotel. I had made the favours, baked and iced the wedding cakes, arranged flowers for the tables and…
Have you been ‘snoozing’ your alarm clock for an extra half-hour in a morning or, do feel like you could just turn it off and stay in bed all day? Are you lethargic and irritable, suffering from bloating, wind and/or, constipation? If this sounds like you, you are not alone and to help, HU17.net would like to introduce Karina Clappison whose holistic nutritional advice has helped many people to eat…
Jolene Setterfield, 28 of Lincoln Way, describes herself as an internationally successful medium, visionary, Intuitive Divine Channel and entrepreneur. Over the last four years Jolene has developed a strong network of likeminded associates all over the world and is soon jetting off to Los Angeles where she is developing a new show for broadcast. On top of this Jolene’s first book ‘A Reminder’ is being published later in the year…
Beverley hair salon Urban Qtr are bucking the economic trend and making a major impact in a time of fiscal uncertainty. The Butcher Row salon have recently celebrated their first anniversary as a business and are evidence that if the business model is correct, it can survive and thrive. The architect of this success story is Dominic Ackah-Amihere. A time and served hairdresser, he spotted a gap in the market…
Jimmy “Needles” from Beverley Ink has been tattooing for 15 years, and has set up shop within the barber shop ‘Just Gentlemen’ at 1 Eastgate, Beverley. He started his tattooing career at a studio in Cheshire which became very successful and resulted in people travelling from a wide area just to get a genuine Jimmy Needles tattoo. He moved to Mallorca in 2004 and opened a studio with a Spanish…
Dr Katerina Steventon MSc. PhD. – from the Czech Republic , is a skincare expert with over 17 years experience and has worked in the skin care industry, gaining an in-depth knowledge of skin science. Her objective is to provide advice and recommend the right skin care routine for any individual, bridging the gap between the skincare consumer, beauty therapy and the skincare industry. Katerina also actively pursues the role…
Meza9 is located in Saturday Market. If you stand at the end of Dyer Lane and look up to the right the office is on the top floor where there is certainly some creative excellence underway. Meza9’s Neil McKenzie designs, installs and manufactures anything from a complete mezzanine floor system to balconies, staircases, balustrades and handrails. However, it is his creative flair that makes all the difference – his website…
It was October 1962, the fair was in town and new police constable William Albert Rice had embarked on his first night of duty. Within in a matter of hours, the legend of the most popular policeman in Beverley’s history was born and a great man had made the first of many indelible marks on his adopted town. He tells the story: “The first night I was on duty in…
Once seen, never forgotten. Mandy Brignall is the lady with the jet black 50’s bouffant and an obvious passion for tattoos. Originally from Cottingham, Mandy has lived in Beverley for seven years and moved here because she absolutely loves everything about the town – including her close circle of friends and the community of accepting people that she surrounds herself with. On average she spends half an hour perfecting her…
Valerie Prentice had told me that the issues faced by a masseuse were women being afraid of getting semi-naked in front of her and men are afraid of becoming aroused. Whilst this comment brought on loud guffaws from everyone in the room at the time, Valerie, who never minces her words, was keen to point out that the only part of the body exposed during the massage is the part…
Tom Radley expects his Great Britain team to teach opponents from the “girls’ game” a proper lesson in rugby. Tom, 26, from Sigston Road, Beverley, has been selected to play for the BARLA Great Britain Lions in the prestigious IRB Dubai 7s rugby union tournament this week. The West Hull second-rower earned a late call-up to the 12-man squad of amateur rugby league players who will take on union teams…
