Posts by Avebury

Terry-Thomas: From his very first day in Smithfield Market (an environment best known in those days for its grubby white blood-stained smocks and cheap grey ash-flecked suits), he turned up for work, straight-backed and six foot tall,...

Quote: Originally Posted by ManofKent Porn on the cheap - Grenson Rose Radley: Leather quality is better than I expected. I'm no expert on construction, but they seem decently made. Look...

http://www.fifecountry.co.uk/PRODUCT...pid=844&cid=35 You can also get veldtshoens from Hoggs and Alfred Sargent.

More versatile style around. Works with anything.

By RTW mean 'benchgrade'. As far as I'm aware, oak bark channelled soles are only available on the handgrade collection. I haven't looked through the catalogue, but I think I'm right.

How do you rate Alfred Sargent's shoes and boots? Any good? Top end quality wise from the UK makers, I'd put Crockett and Jones, Tricker's and Grenson, EG excepted. Barker and Loake below that. AS are a bit 'left field' - no...

I think there's a sense of satisfaction in having a tatty shoe box fulll of rags and tins. It's a counterpoint to the elegance and finish of the shoe. The less conspicuous the better. My grandfather had a lovely old tatty wooden shoe...

Heath Robinson

Nah, what you want is this one! Suitable for mud and rain, not paper and pencils.

I've got the ones in Tan burnished. Lovely shoes, but a bit too 'elegant' for me - very slick and refined. I prefer the robust look of Church's, but I don't like their shoes particularly. The C+J 341 last is fine, but much prefer the...