Hi Sophie. My Mum Hillary Randall is a jeweller who specialises in repairs and restringing. Her website is:
http://www.silvernutmegjewellery.com/home.htm
You'll see that she's not local, she's based in Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex. She does lots of repairs by post, but I also take repairs down when I go to visit. She turns them round within the weekend, so they don't need to go in the post at all. I'm next visiting in three weeks' time - the weekend of the 27th to 29th September. So if I collected them from you by the 27th, you could have them back on Monday 30th.
Prices etc are on the website at
http://www.silvernutmegjewellery.com/pe ... inging.htm
You can also email her directly on
hillary.randall@tesco.net