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A 147-year-old British shoemaker from Northampton has designs on your loafers
10+ hour, 29+ min ago (351+ words) Founded in 1879 in Northampton, Crockett & Jones sits at the center of British footwear. While other venerable shoemaking names have chased trainers and other youthful styles, marketing and e-commerce director James Fox says the family company (Fox is the son-in-law of…...
A shoe in: The handmade British footwear that's keeping pace with the times
10+ hour, 4+ min ago (277+ words) An icon of British craftsmanship, Edward Green has been handmaking shoes in Northampton, the home of the UK's shoemaking industry, for 136 years. The original Edward Green's vision " to attract the best craftsmen, united under the slogan "excellence without compromise" " still…...
Gripping: Amazon Prime's The Tank reviewed
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (139+ words) I don't know how it got past the increasingly powerful "All Germans were evil Nazis' censors but Amazon has released a sympathetic portrait of a Tiger crew on the Eastern Front, translated, clunkily, as The Tank. "If the ancient Romans…...