Personalised Gifts in Hull: Made by Hand in Hessle

If you are looking for a personalised gift in Hull, there is a fair chance the thing you want is being made a few miles west of the city centre. We are Duffy's Creations, a husband and wife studio on Broad Avenue in Hessle (HU13), and everything we sell is designed, printed, finished and packed here by the two of us, Lee and Sam.

This one is written for people buying local. What we make that is actually about Hull and East Yorkshire, how ordering from a small studio works, and how long it takes to reach you. For the wider picture of what comes out of the studio, we covered that in our guide to personalised gifts made in Yorkshire.

Gifts that are actually about Hull

1. The MKM Stadium, day or night

Our MKM Stadium Hull City Football Print is an illustration of the ground, and you choose either the bright daytime design or the darker night-time one. It starts at £10 for an A5 print on its own and runs up to £32 for an A3 framed in grey with a mount. Frames are black, white or grey, and A5, A4 and A3 are all available either framed or print only.

If the person you are buying for is black and white rather than black and amber, there is an MKM Stadium Hull FC Rugby Print in the same two designs and at the same prices. Same ground, other half of the city.

2. One match, recorded properly

The We Are Premier League Hull City Print takes a single game and lays it out in full: the score, the date, the stadium, the attendance, both line-ups and the numbers that went with it. You tell us which match. It is £10 for an A5 print only up to £32 for a framed A3. If you want more Tigers ideas, we ran through the whole range in our Hull City gift guide.

Your street, your postcode

Not every local gift needs a badge on it. Our house map prints take an address and a postcode and draw the map around it, cut into a shape. There is a Twine Heart, a Plain Heart and a Round Eucalyptus version, so you can pick the one that suits the room.

You send us the address, the postcode and the title you would like across the top. A street in Hessle, a first flat off Beverley Road, the house someone has just picked up the keys to. They start at £8 as an email PDF if you would rather print it yourself, £10 for an A5 print, and go up to £31 for a framed A3 in grey with a mount. It makes a good housewarming present for anyone who has just bought locally, and there are more along those lines in New Home and in our new home gift ideas guide.

The place where it happened

Two of our prints work from a location rather than a street address.

The Skyline Print draws the silhouette skyline of a city you choose, with your names, the event and the date underneath, on a background colour you pick. Weddings, engagements and anniversaries are what people mostly order it for, though the city someone keeps going back to works just as well. From £10 for an A5 print up to £31 framed.

The Country Print pins a country or region and the exact place inside it, with a title, a date and the type of event, and you pick a Glimmer Map colour for the map itself. It starts at £8 as an email PDF, £10 for an A5 print, and goes up to £31 framed. Both sit in our Wedding, Engagement and Anniversary collection.

How ordering from us actually works

This is the part that is different from picking something up in town, so it is worth spelling out.

• You order, then send us the details the piece needs: names, dates, an address, a match, whatever it is.

• We put the design together and email you a proof. Nothing is printed until you have seen it and said yes.

• Orders take 1 to 3 working days here for the designing, proofing, printing, finishing and packing. Weekends and UK bank holidays do not count towards that.

• Then it goes out with Royal Mail, tracked, and the tracking is emailed to you once the parcel leaves us.

On the postage itself, Royal Mail Tracked 48 is our standard service and lands around two working days after dispatch. Tracked 24 is the next working day after dispatch. There is also Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm if you are up against a date, with Royal Mail's own guarantee terms applying to it.

If you need something for a particular day, message us through the contact page before you order and we will tell you honestly whether we can hit it. We would rather turn an order down than take one we cannot get to you in time.

What you actually get

Prints come in A5, A4 and A3. The frames are solid wood, made in the UK, in black, white or grey, with a mount available on the A4 and A3 sizes. The front is 1.2mm acrylic rather than glass, so it is lighter and there is nothing there to shatter, which is worth knowing if the print is going in a child's bedroom or a house with a lively dog.

One honest note before you order. Because every piece is personalised to your names, dates or address, we cannot take it back if you change your mind, so the proof email is the moment to check every spelling and every date properly.

Buying from two people in Hessle

We are not a warehouse and there is no team behind us. When you message us it is Lee or Sam who reads it and replies. That is the trade-off of buying from a small local studio: you will not get a print in your hands within the hour, but you will get someone who reads your order, sets your details out by hand and checks with you before anything goes near a printer. We made the fuller case for that in buying personalised gifts direct instead of through a marketplace.

Where to start

The Hull and football prints live in our Sports collection, the house maps and address prints in New Home, and if you want a sense of what everyone else in the area is sending, our Best Sellers and Gifts for Him pages are a decent place to start. If the thing you have in mind is not on the site, send us the idea. We are five minutes from the Humber Bridge and we like a challenge.