John Gowing Jewellers

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John Gowing Jewellers occupies a narrow shopfront in the Covered Market with an intricate, dark timber facade that stands out against the surrounding stalls. John Gowing opened this business in eighteen seventy-eight, and four generations of the Gowing family have run it since. While many businesses in the city center have changed hands or rebranded, the family kept their original name above the door for nearly one hundred and fifty years. They still use the same heavy iron safe installed when they first opened.

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