The traditional buildings host a wealth of wonderful gifts and services in Worcester Street.

Where else can you start at the pub, order some curtains, pick up a bouquet of flowers, frame your favourite print, buy some antique gloves, repair your Christmas tree lights and pick up a fresh goose! Then go and create a personalised gift before you even cross the Ring Road?

R Bate, the long established family butchers, have the very finest festive fayre, with fresh goose, chickens and of course turkeys. Orders are now being taken for Christmas.

Bob Bate has a wealth of experience in the trade and produces home-cured succulent dry cured bacon and hams.

Their famous handmade sausages are a true local speciality.

The range of produce is always the most superior, the quality at R Bate is renown. 01384 394251

Blewe Interiors is an Aladdin's cave of household decorative items with gorgeous fabrics, tiebacks and wallpapers.

The most ornate and classical occasional furniture, lamps and all soft furnishings, curtains and blinds are designed and hand made on the premises.

Blewe interior design service can create a whole home's interior or just a single item for your home in contemporary or traditional styles.

For Christmas there are many lovely and distinctive gifts for the home and garden. 01384 393841

The Cockleshell is a craft centre and shop with a difference.

You can attend art classes, book to make cards or truly unique pottery painted and glazed with the designs you create - a special mug for your grandparents made by your children would be a delightful and personal Christmas gift.

Children and adults alike can book unique birthday, Christmas or even hen parties making a host of items and having fun.

There are many hand made and skilfully crafted gift items from hand woven shawls to candle holders, many made by artists with learning disabilities supported by this unique centre. 01384 442125

Fellows & Fullwood, founded in 1959, are still a family owned business.

They endeavour to provide a professional and friendly service.

The business offers a same day delivery service and is expert in providing solutions to customers' problems on a technical and commercial basis.

If you've tried everyone else for that hard to get item you'll probably find it here!

Specialising in industrial equipment, and selling a range of all the electrical items you could ever need for your household, with professional help and advice included. 01384 213311

Hanbury Nursery has the 'Holly and the Ivy' together with the lushest selection of lovely plants and pots for both indoor and outdoor, stocking many popular and uncommon varieties.

Hand-tied bouquets and arrangements for your Christmas table centrepiece can be matched to your festive decoration theme. Dramatic and exotic blooms or simple traditional flowers in reds, whites and golds are always a perfect and appreciated gift for Christmas.

Holly wreaths for the front door are also available with lots of vases, gifts with a superb choice of dried and silk flowers too. And, of course, the freshest Christmas trees! 01384 395179

The Plough & Harrow is a perfect pub to have a festive drink or meal.

The real fires are just what a cosy brandy should be paired with to warm up a weary Christmas shopper!

There is no TV and this is what makes the pub so relaxing and a retreat from the busy pace of life! The food is wholesome, tasty and varied - the menu changes weekly, as do the guest beers and this pub has won awards for its beer!

With quiz nights on most Tuesdays and board games and darts, a traditional welcome greets you at this unspoilt pub. 01384 397218

Retro Antiques looks fabulous and is now ready for Christmas displaying a host of extraordinary and sought after antiquities just perfect for revamping your home in time for the festive season. There are sturdy traditionally made chests of drawers and cupboards with a new range of light solid oak furniture.

Classic, giant station clocks adorn the walls, along with ornate mirrors and collectibles, with the now trendy again enamelled tin-ware.

New to Retro is an enchanting range of exquisite antique style handbags with beautiful intricate beadwork, unusual and highly desirable jewellery and nostalgic greeting cards.

For the best quality vintage or new gifts Retro Antiques has everything you could desire. 01384 4420658

The historic building; the Stourbridge Gallery offers a speciality range of limited edition prints with unusual and interesting decorative glassware.

The Gallery is well known for its expert picture framing service, which would make a great gift for Christmas.

The popular Jo Downs jewellery range heads a glittering array of fine handcrafted jewellery, featuring many beautiful collections, sterling silver contemporary and modern fused glass jewellery with precious gems and statement pieces.

The distinctive trinkets, children's toys, colourful wall hangings and platters and the range of stylish and distinctive greeting cards ensure there is something for Christmas to suit everyone. 01384 390170

So have a stroll along Worcester Street and discover the gifts and quality services on offer.

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Late night Many traders opening Thursday 15th December until 9pm