How Grima set Jermyn Street swinging in the Sixties
Something shocking happened on Jermyn Street in 1966. Among the more conservative of London shopping districts – the place for a badger-hair shaving brush or a decent pair of sheepskin slippers – at a stroke it became cool. The charismatic Italian émigré Andrew Grima (1921-2007) had opened a jewellery emporium.
The son of an embroidery designer from Malta, Grima had never trained for the jewellery trade. He …