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Inside the NPS Factory: Where Solovair and the Original Dr Martens Are Made
The Factory That Made the Original Dr Martens The NPS factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire has been making boots since 1881. For thirty-five of those years — from the late 1960s to 2003 — it manufactured Dr Martens under contract. Every pair of Dr Martens 1460s sold during that period came from this building, made by these workers, on these machines. When Dr Martens moved production to Asia in 2003, the...
What Made in England Actually Means in 2026
Three Words That Change Everything "Made in England" used to be unremarkable. It was simply where things were made. Boots, shoes, tools, textiles — they came from British factories because that is where the factories were. Nobody put it on a label because nobody needed to. Then manufacturing left. The factories closed, the skills dispersed, and production moved to Asia. What remained was a handful of stubborn makers — mostly...
