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Nov 2022
Owners of Harrogate trophy store retire after 40 years
A Harrogate couple who have run a small independent trophy store for 40 years are to retire.
Martin and Jane Newton have operated Trophies and Engravings out of their small shop on Valley Mount since the early 1980’s.
Before his career in trophy making, Mr Newton worked for ICI at Hornbeam Park but left to set up a darts shop.
A keen dart player, he was running a number of darts leagues across the district at the time.
When he was asked to run a competition for Theakston’s Brewery and make the trophies, it marked the start of a new business that would soon take over his life for the next four decades.
Now at the age of 72, he said. it’s time to hand the business over to people younger.
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The trophies the Newtons have made and commissioned come in all shapes, sizes and budgets, ranging from £5 for a school award to hundreds of thousands of pounds for a bespoke trophy plated in silver or gold.
Whilst the couple have worked with local organisations such as the Army Foundation College, Harrogate Swimming Club and Yorkshire Gymnastics, they also have contracts much further afield. Their bus awards – a gold coloured bus on a plinth- are popular in Australia and America.
Jane Newton has run the business with her husband. Even in a world now obsessed with social media, she said, there’s nothing like winning an actual physical trophy:
The Newtons have now sold the business to Paul and Linda Shreeve who will soon be creating moments of joy for award winners everywhere.
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