Beatrix Potter - The House of the Tailor of Gloucester

01/10/2026

It's October now, so surely it's not too early to talk about Christmas? We've got some of our Christmas stock on sale already. Do come in and browse some of our lovely gift ideas.

29/09/2026

One of our supporters has this lovely ornament from when the Tailor of Gloucester celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003. What should we do to mark the 125th anniversary in 2028? It's time for us to get planning now!

12/09/2026

One of our directors was at a meeting at the beautiful Hotel Indigo in Gloucester during the week and the coaster at his place on the meeting table was a very appropriate one. Do you think we should have some made for sale like this?

07/09/2026

Simpkin enjoyed Gloucester Day in Saturday. Here he is with the Tailor (Ross Campbell) and the Guillemot of the Court Leet of Barton St Mary, Sarah Nolan.

04/09/2026

Simpkin is looking forward to Gloucester Day tomorrow (Saturday 5th September). Thanks to Lorraine Campbell for the video.

03/09/2026

We get lots of lovely reviews and we don't usually share them, but this one is so nice we felt we just had to...❤️

02/09/2026

Thanks to our shop manager June and her husband Martin for putting together our Autumn window display. Look at Mrs Tiggywinkle and Lucy catching up with the washing and ironing!

01/09/2026

This beautiful floral display was part of the Deerhurst Flower Festival in Gloucestershire on Bank Holiday Monday.

31/08/2026

Nice to see our shop sign included in this video. Thanks Gloucester Rugby and good luck for the coming season! 🏉🍒🤍

26/08/2026

We're sad to learn of the death of Dolly Parton.

As well as being a musical icon, Dolly made a monumental impact on child literacy by founding Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in 1995. Driven by her desire to help children fall in love with reading, she affectionately became known to millions of children around the world as "The Book Lady".

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit is the official "Welcome Book" given to every child who joins Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in the UK.

The story below shows her giving the one millionth book from the UK Imagination Library to a young lad from Liverpool in 2014.

RIP Dolly.

Country music legend Dolly Parton hand-delivers the millionth book from her UK Imagination Library reading initiative to a Liverpool child.