Who are we?
We are Rachel & Laura, we have been friends for over 15 years since we started working together in Plymouth’s museum service. Following a conversation over a bag of chips in 2014 we decided to pool our creative resources and start a business together. Take a look at the gallery below to see our story in pictures.
Why ‘Gosh & Absolutely’?
Laura and I used to work together as museum professionals and in order to promote a project we were working on we were invited onto local radio. It was very early in the morning and rather than a quick five minute slot we were filling in for half an hour on the history segment. As representatives of a respectable institution we were conscious that we ought to both seem interesting and (more importantly) not swear…
The two of us would have been more than happy to have ignorantly assumed that we have done an excellent job and not ever listened to the show. However, in the way of enthusiastic parents, Laura’s dad had recorded the interview and encouraged by our smirking colleagues we listened to it in the office. Laura’s efforts to remain polite and my apparent aversion to the word ‘yes’ led to the nicknames ‘Gosh’ and ‘Absolutely’. So, it is with thanks to Gordon Sparks, the local radio DJ that hosted the show, and our friend Emma Philip, who gleefully coined the phrase, that we acknowledge the origins of a fabulous name.
We started out selling our products at craft fairs 
But we soon realised… 
…that fairs outdoors were somewhat unpredictable 
So in 2016 we found ourselves a shop in an independent arcade – The House that Jack Built 
The shop looked great 
And we were super chuffed 
But soon another unit became available 
So we moved to the front of the arcade 
We loved this shop, but we made friends with our neighbours and hatched a new plan 
We got the keys to a bigger shop with our chums Rockpool Trading 
With a great deal of hard work 
(sometimes) 
We transformed this… 
…to this 
After a very tiring 11 days we opened the doors in May 2019