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Shops and Hobbies in Watchet, Somerset*

Watchet, Somerset Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• Langleys has the best selection of clothes for wrinklies in...well, Watchet. Oh, but they now have TIMBERLAND threads (WOW!)...who knows what will be next?? Country Matters has wonderful clothes for Pakistani's (or, perhaps, hippies?)

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• apart from the occasional fire and graffiti in the town there is a very good gallery in swain street, one of the better things in the town !
• BIGG UP TO THE COTTENS!!!! KEEP IT UP WE LUV YOU
• Lynda Cotton Art Gallery sells original paintings as well as other bits and pieces such as Abstract images in local stones by David Milton. The other gallery is Alan Ward's Sidelines. This is mainly train associated and you'll struggle to find a picture that isn't a print.
• Watchet it self is an Artform!!!
• People come from far and wide to visit Lynda & Nick at the Lynda Cotton Gallery. They have a large knowledge of modern, local & Victorian art. If you just want to browse, get info, or buy - you will get a warm welcome! And pay a visit to Grandma's Attic, just down the road, for a great selection of second hand books, antiques and bric-a-brac.
• There's the Art gallery at the top of Swain Street - strictly for Anoraks of the train-spotting type. Then there's Cotton's further down the street - pricey but quite good. Nick's stuff is OK.
• We have 2 art galleries!!!!! Linda Cotton Gallery is the best (& I'm not just saying that because I know her son & daughter....or am I?) Sidelines is the other and it's all about trains. Alan Ward sells his original stuff here. Anoraks come from all over the country to buy his stuff. And he DOES sell some really nice pictures of local scenes.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• Harbour news is the place for your papers and magazines, however the Alldays and Londis shops also carry a selection.
• theres 3 shops for Magazine's
• There's Chilcotts, but you don't come here to buy magazines and comics. You come here for a blast of fresh North Coast sea air . Checkout the beach at Helwell for fossils, you cannot fail to find some .
• Harbour News has the best selection. Hardly any porno, though!

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Last updated: 2008-02-12