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Classic London Landmarks Bicycle Tour. The area. Neighborhood: Holborn. Due to its especially convenient location, bustling Holborn hosts an excellent range of hotels, eateries, and shops to suit practically any taste or budget. With major attractions like the British Museum and Somerset House as well as popular areas such as Covent Garden and Soho all just a short walk away, Holborn is a smart base from which to explore London.
Read more. Best nearby. Ngon Ngon. The Clerk and Well. Oriole Bar. Sushi Tetsu. Ye Olde Mitre. Vivat Bacchus. Beppe's Cafe. Farringdons Jewellery. Leather Lane Market. St Alban's Holborn. Football Escapes. Prince Albert Equestrian Statue. London Halal Food Festival. Old Bloomsbury. Holborn Viaduct. St Andrew Holborn. Write a review Upload a photo. Most Recent. Very good. Jannie L 1 contribution. Do not buy from divine diamonds boutique Con artist.
Went to buy engagement and wedding ring. Said he could give us everything, took our deposit and gave us nothing. Been calling, texting, emailing, went down in person. They just fob you off with stories. They have security to remove you. New owners have ramped up prices and recruited less experienced staff who put far less care than the previous family run owners. The shop looks great, and very prominent, but avoid if you want something special. Joanne W London, UK 34 contributions.
Elegance Jewellers - Buyer beware! I was absolutely delighted to find my perfect engagement ring at Elegance Jewellers on 26 June It was a beautiful 0. The ring was resized and I collected it on 30 June having paid in cash.
I was thrilled and showed everyone my ring. Unfortunately by the 5th September my beautiful diamond had fallen out of the ring.
The good news was it really does sparkle and I was able to find it in the carpet. The bad news is my perfect ring that was supposed to last a life time sadly didn't. I went back into Elegance who have offered me two options. Firstly to reset the diamond and secondly for me to have a replacement ring.
Your diamond may fall out 2. You may be lucky enough to find it, if not Elegance Jewellers will tell you that's a job for your insurance 3. You won't get a refund if it breaks I am furious I am not being offered a refund and don't have trust in a product which was clearly not fit for purpose.
Lots of choice, good value, but beware of certain shops. Lots to choose from here when shopping for engagement rings. A short walk from Farringdon and Chancery Lane underground stations, London's renowned district of Hatton Garden is bustling with fine jewellery stores, coffee shops, Leather Lane Market and some of London's most revered food stalls. Berganza At Berganza, we pride ourselves on having one of the most extensive collections of antique rings in the world.
As a family-run business, we also Queensmith Master Jewellers Award-winning Hatton Garden jewellers, Queensmith are an independent business of gemmologists and master Rating: Pacha Pacha of London have a reputable business selling high quality, rare and collectable pieces and diamonds, with particular emphasis on watches. Diamond Doves Diamond Doves is an independent business specialised in Engagement rings, wedding bands, bespoke rings and handmade jewellery.
Having 15 years of It's the first stop in our behind-the-scenes tour of the Hatton Garden area, the handful of streets in Holborn that have been at the heart of London's jewellery trade for over a century. Guarded by security, and hidden beneath a labyrinth of locked doors and narrow staircases, it feels a million miles away from the glittering window displays of engagement rings and diamond-encrusted watches that flank the street above us.
Naturally, this wasn't just any old dusty rug. It had belonged to a jeweller's workshop, where it spent years absorbing 'lemel', the small shavings of precious metal left over from filing pieces of jewellery. By the time it arrived at Presman Mastermelt, it had become an unlikely treasure trove of gold, silver, and platinum. Like the carpet, much of the scrap Presman Mastermelt purchases come from jewellers up and down the country.
The company also reclaims platinum from old aeroplane engines, palladium from the pharmaceutical industry, and even gold teeth. However — much to the relief of the dentophobics amongst us — we've visited on a quiet morning, and spy only a mesh of industrial metal that resembles cheap tinsel waiting to be processed. Once we've sized up all the equipment, it's time to see some actual smelting in action. A sample is then collected for testing and the melt is poured into a conical mould.
After the mixture cools and solidifies, it's removed from the mould and smashed to separate the borax 'slag' at the top of the cast, from the precious metal at the bottom. Because it's impossible to tell exactly how much a load of scrap is worth just by looking at, a dealer like Presman Mastermelt must maintain an impeccable reputation. The slogan, "trusted since " is emblazoned on its website, and the homepage details the company's post-war origins, purchasing scrap from local jewellers back when trade was predominantly wholesale.
This harkening back to the Hatton Garden of yore becomes a recurring theme throughout our tour. The Hatton Garden jewellery trade started to grow in the early s, with business booming by the end of the century. In De Beers — co-founded by British-born businessman and imperialist Cecil Rhodes in the wake of the South African diamond rush — cut a deal to sell its gems exclusively through a syndicate of ten Hatton Garden merchants. And so, over half a century before the first retail jewellery shops moved in, Hatton Garden's status as London's diamond district was set in stone.
Despite rising rents putting considerable strain on some local businesses, it's an identity that endures in Hatton Garden to this day.
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