Winston's of York Journal — IndieYork

Journal

As an independent business, we love to share our experiences of running a retail business, as well as how to make the most out of our products. You'll find all of this in our Journal. We hope you enjoy reading.

What is Winston’s?

What is Winston’s?

Very conscious we have gained quite a few new followers of our little shop recently so thought it would be nice to introduce to you who we are.

I’m David, the owner of Winston’s. The shop was first opened 2016 with the website launching in 2015, the shop originally just sold brands, nothing of our own. When Covid hit in 2020 I knew we needed to move away from brands and take greater control of what we sell, this is where our own range came from. Since then we have created over 60 designs and products and I’ve...


What we’ve been doing.

What we’ve been doing.

At Winston’s of York we continue to grow our range of unique designed T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Shirts and accessories. Our new range of Coffee Time, Go Green and Peaceman T-Shirts have proven to be extremely popular as well as our classic Gorilla and Viking T-Shirts and Sweatshirts.

Lockdown Retail

Lockdown Retail

Before we start, I hope everyone is safe and looking after themselves and their loved ones. The bigger picture is my little shop doesn’t really matter. There are far more important things happening in the world that little indies like mine pales into insignificance. That said, I love my shop and am very proud of what we have achieved and truly hope we can continue in the future. 

Since we closed the actual shop back in March we have spent all our time developing our website. Ironically when we first opened I didn’t actually want a website, I wanted people...


It’s over, Christmas I mean.

It’s over, Christmas I mean.

Now that Christmas is over what do we do next?