This is a quick video i shot about snuff, for more please read this post i wrote in 2010. Snuff became popularized in the UK largely due to a battle that took place near to Vigo in Spain in 1702. A French squadron and a fleet of Spanish galleons were harboured at Vigo. After the battle a [...]

After a busy busy year which i must say has been a cracker, things went right and over all i cant remember much which went wrong. So i had to end the year on a high. Vintage port from 1983 (same age as me), 2008 Partagas Lucitainia and good company.   Big thanks again to [...]

Well we had a great night again, about 20-25 people tunred up. The tobaccos went down well, i dont think many got on well with the Twists though. Filmed by AD – www.youtube.com/user/ADzPipes The tobaccos we had on offer where; Kendal Brown Cherry Twist Kendal Sweet Brown Pig Tail Peterson Sunset Breeze Mac Baren – [...]

A wonderful smoke loved this stuff, will be getting more next year thats for sure. Had a slight cock up and the last file became corrupted when my computer crashed. Sorry http://www.churchillsofnorwich.com/ Take care

Well its been a busy 6-8 weeks but its now over. Big thanks to all of our customers at Gauntleys, we had a great year. Its all over now and i can get back to doing these videos and my blogs again. Again thanks to all of you who read, watch & comment on all [...]

The Jan Pipe club will be held on the Second Monday, 9th Janary. We look forward to seeing you all there, it will be held at the Lincolnshire Poacher (as normal) from 7pm and you can find us in the beer garden. Just look for the smoke signals. See you there, tobaccos to be confirmed.

Sorry  for not updataing the site over the last month, its been a manic manic month in the shop. For all of you who have been on here over the last year, i thank you all. Have a great christmas and expect a lot more in the new year Take care folks Glynn

Finally the UK has caught up, it seems. SilkCut are the first to release the capsule cigarettes to this small island. Where as they say click to release menthol, its more like spearmint. Not bad though, i am not a fan of full on menthol and the spearmint is quiet pleasant.

With a few tobaccos being phased out over the last year, our Christmas Spice tobacco has changed a little since last year. The flavours remain the same, a spicy almost mulled wine mixture. Packed with sweet rum, vanilla, fruits, cinnamon, nutmeg and of course the Kretek clove leaf(cigar). Due to a shortage of Kretek cigar [...]

Congradualtions to PufferloBill for winning the Chrsitmas Raffle (Peterson 2011 Christmas B10 Pipe, 100g 2011 Peterson Christmas Blend, 50g Gauntleys Christmas Spice, Toque Christmas Pudding Snuff & Black Sherlock Holmes Tamper) Reviews Solani – 633 (Virginia & Perique) Ogdens – Walnut Flake Gawith Hoggarth – Curly Cut Deluxe Peterson – Christmas Blend 2011 Toque – [...]