About us · Thursby, Cumbria

A family business, built to look after yours.

WHY WE STARTED SPECTACLE

Building something on the internet can be daunting on your own. Hosts, plugins, updates, security: it's a lot, and it's hard to know who to trust.

So we started Spectacle to be the friendly, reliable people you can lean on. We take away the fear of the unknown and stay with you for the whole journey, not just the launch.

A collector's figurine of Rob beside its 'Man from the Lakes' box, on a picnic bench overlooking the Lake District
RobTECHNICAL · LEADERSHIP
THE ROAD TO SPECTACLE

Two decades of experience, now in your corner.

  1. 20+ YEARS

    A career in tech

    Over two decades working in technology, learning how things are built and why they break.

  2. 15 YEARS

    Design and websites

    Most of that time spent in and around design and the web, making sites that look good and work hard.

  3. NEARLY A DECADE

    Hosting, support and people

    Leading managed hosting, support and customer experience teams, and seeing what good service really looks like.

  4. TODAY

    Spectacle

    Bringing it all home to Cumbria: one friendly team to design, host and look after your website.

OUR CORE VALUES

What we stand for.

Four things that guide every project, every client and every person we work with.

01

Quality and design matter

We sweat the details, from the first sketch to the last line of code. Good design is how a business earns trust.

02

Better together

We team up with talented local creatives, so every client gets the right specialist for the job.

03

Honest and open

Clear prices, plain English and straight answers, even when it’s not what you hoped to hear.

04

In it for the long run

We build relationships, not just websites, and we’re still here long after launch.

SMALL ON PURPOSE

We're not trying to be a big agency.

We want to be a local, reliable, family-run studio that does good work for good people. That shapes everything about how we work.

i. Local We live and work in Cumbria, and we want the businesses around us to do well.
ii. Reliable We answer emails, keep promises and look after sites like they’re our own.
iii. Family-run A small family business. You’ll always know exactly who you’re dealing with.
iv. Plain English No jargon. If we can’t explain it simply, we haven’t understood it well enough.
WHERE WE WORK

Rooted in Cumbria. Happy to meet for a brew.

We're based in Thursby, just outside Carlisle, and work with businesses across the county. If you're nearby, we'd love to meet in person.

Carlisle Penrith Keswick The Lake District All of Cumbria
EMAIL [email protected]
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STUDIO Thursby, Carlisle, Cumbria CA5
54.84° N · 3.05° W