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A Boot Shop That People Fly To There is a boot shop in Camden Town, London, that receives visitors from Tokyo, New York, Berlin, Melbourne, Stockholm, São Paulo, and dozens of other cities every year. They do not come because they cannot buy boots at home. They come because this particular shop — at 5 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8NH — is not like the one at home. The British...

Two British Makers, Different Traditions Loake and Solovair are both Made in England. Both use Goodyear welted construction. Both produce boots and shoes that will outlast anything on the high street. But they come from different traditions, serve different purposes, and suit different wardrobes. We stock both at The British Boot Company. This is how they compare, and how to choose between them. Heritage Loake has been making shoes in...

It Hurts. That Is Normal. New leather boots are stiff. Good leather boots are especially stiff. If you have just bought a pair of Solovair or George Cox shoes and your feet are complaining on day one, that is not a defect — it is full-grain leather and Goodyear welted construction doing exactly what they should do before they do what they do best: mould to your feet and last...

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...