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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,Northwich,Cheshire,Witton Street,high,street,shoe,repair,key,cutting,watch,engraving,cleaning,locksmith,retail,services,family,business,British,retailer,ex,offenders,former,prisoners,leavers,second,chances,by,spent,sentence,sentences,key cutting,watch repairs,dry cleaning,passport photos,social mobility,inclusive employment,former prisoners,foundation
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC3T9F - Timpson shopfront at 31 Witton Street in Northwich, Cheshire, represents one of a well-known family-owned high-street service businesses and a company closely associated with second-chance employment. Timpson was founded in Manchester in 1865 by William Timpson and developed from footwear retailing into shoe repairs, key cutting, watch and phone repairs, engraving, dry cleaning, passport photographs and other practical services. The Northwich branch sits in the traditional town-centre shopping area and reflects the continuing role of service retailers on British high streets amid changing consumer habits, online competition and regeneration pressures. Timpson is also notable for its distinctive upside down management culture, giving shop colleagues unusual autonomy and responsibility. Through the Timpson Foundation, the group has become one of the UK's most prominent employers of people with criminal convictions, recruiting directly from prisons and operating training academies intended to improve employment prospects after release and support successful resettlement. The company says more than 12% of its 4,500-plus colleagues have a past criminal conviction. James Timpson, a sixth-generation member of the family, led the group from 2002 until 2024 and became widely associated with prison reform, rehabilitation and employment as a way of reducing reoffending. He served as Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending from July 2024 to July 2026 before rejoining Timpson as a director in 2026. The business remains family owned, with Sir John Timpson as chairman, and received a King's Award for Enterprise in 2024 for Promoting Opportunity Through Social Mobility. The Northwich storefront therefore connects an everyday British retail scene with wider debates around rehabilitation, social mobility, inclusive recruitment, prison reform, town-centre resilience and the value of work in helping former offenders rebuild their lives
Timpson, 31 Witton Street, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 5DE, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,London,South East,English,night,evening,outside,exterior,outdoor,outdoors,union,Great,flags,shoe,shoes,union jack,WC2E,25-26,James Street,WC2E 8PA,red,white,blue,symbol,icon,iconic,symbolism,Brexit,Brexiteer,neighbourhood,patriotic,patriotism
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWMENT - Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as Covent Garden. The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Covent Garden falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden and the parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. The area has been served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station since 1907
the 300-yard journey from Leicester Square tube station is the shortest in London
25-26 James St, Covent Garden, London, England, UK, WC2E 8PA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Merseyside,England,UK,dusk,rope walks,big,obese,anorexic,shop,store,retail,L1 4EZ,L1,trainers,designer,branded,training,shoes,shoe,retailer,casual,sportswear,&,accessories,size-ist,sizeist,fat,thin,skinny,size6,size8,size 6,models,model,does size matter
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P4JW2X - . This location-specific image from Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4EZ in 2023 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The photograph centres on Size? Shoestore, Chain retailer offering designer branded training shoes, casual sportswear & accessories, Bold St, Liverpool, L1 4EZ. Another layer of the photograph includes visual archive, passenger railway, contemporary social history, regional rail, commuter travel, everyday life, rail corridor, social history, rail modernisation, historical comparison, local character, rail infrastructure, archival record, and changing streetscape. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with fares, public ownership and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions. Small period details of signage and branding at Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4EZ may become more significant with time, particularly following new construction. The surrounding story also includes changing land use, place identity, integrated transport, before-and-after reference, community identity, railway branding, trackside heritage, and regional identity. Details involving shoes, branded, casual, offering, and sportswear make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The wider setting at Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4EZ matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another useful connection is fares and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions within the real-world context of Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4EZ. The scene further reflects accessibility and the role of public transport in reducing congestion and emissions within the specific setting of Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4EZ.
Bold St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 4EZ
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,bar signage,shoe,shoes,retailer,shoe retailer,footwear store,independent shoe shop,York city centre,retail signage,York YO1,North Yorkshire,England,UK,footwear retail,fashion retail,independent retailer,high street shopping,boutique shoe shop,window reflection,glass shopfront,decorative typography,urban street scene,historic city centre,retail branding,shopping destination,tourism York,documentary photography,editorial image,Bare,blue,sky,street,history
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R59X6M - This image shows the window signage of Angela Bare, an independent footwear retailer located at 6 Clifford Street in York city centre. The shop name is painted in ornate gold lettering directly onto the glass, with reflections of surrounding historic buildings and street activity visible across the surface.
Angela Bare specialises in retail footwear and operates from a prominent city-centre location within York's historic commercial area. Independent shoe retailers such as this play an important role in maintaining diversity on the high street, offering alternatives to national chains and contributing to the character of local shopping streets.
The reflective window creates a layered visual effect, combining branding with the architectural and urban context of Clifford Street. The image highlights the interaction between retail signage and the surrounding cityscape, a common feature of shopping streets in historic English cities where modern retail occupies traditional buildings.
Photographed in daylight, the image is well suited to editorial use covering independent retail, footwear and fashion shopping, high street economics, urban reflections, York tourism, and the role of small businesses in historic city centres
Angela Bare, 6 Clifford Street, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK, YO1 9RD
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,clothes & shoes,clothes,and,shoes,shoe,donation,the,bins,recycle,reuse,reduce,recycling,at,John Wesley Hillard,Wren Nest Rd,Glossop,High Peak,Derbyshire,UK,SK13 8HB,Thank you,donate,donations,area,clothing bank,clothing banks,used,waste,wasted,Trading Company,SATCoL,eco
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1RDGY - . This dated editorial view of Wren Nest Rd, Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK13 8HB in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The location is represented through Black Salvation Army, clothes & shoes, recycling at Tesco Glossop - Donate here, and ,help us to help others. Another layer of the photograph includes historical comparison, commercial redevelopment, urban regeneration, contemporary social history, public realm, architectural character, changing streetscape, period detail, local history, urban fabric, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, town-centre renewal, and heritage-led regeneration. The wider contemporary story combines heritage conservation, construction costs and how regeneration tries to create reasons to visit traditional town centres. For later comparison, the photograph preserves public access and movement at Wren Nest Rd, Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK13 8HB, details that may look very different after changing commercial priorities. A second descriptive layer includes place identity, community identity, changing land use, regional identity, everyday life, adaptive reuse, civic architecture, and visual archive. Details involving Black, Salvation, Donate, others, and clothes make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around Wren Nest Rd, Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK13 8HB, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The scene further reflects heritage conservation and how public investment can reshape pedestrian movement and evening activity within the specific setting of Wren Nest Rd, Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK13 8HB. The image fixes a trace of local identity for later comparison.
Wren Nest Rd, Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK, SK13 8HB
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,National Waterways Museum South Pier Road,Ellesmere Port,Cheshire,England,UK,CH65 4FW,CH65,pair,of,work,worn,out,on,ceramic,tiles,boots,mud,dirty,footwear,shoe,shoes,boot,leather,tiled,floor,old,museum,interesting,the,past,pastimes,olden days,heritage,history,historic
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3080K - . Made at National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The frame specifically shows Muddy leather work boots, on ceramic tiles. Further facets of the scene include navigation engineering, heritage boating, mixed-use redevelopment, changing land use, civic architecture, town-centre renewal, industrial navigation, architectural character, canal heritage, place-making, inland transport history, everyday life, regional identity, and before-and-after reference. The modern context includes continuing discussion of biodiversity, heritage conservation and the cost of maintaining ageing locks, boats and canal structures. For current editorial use, planning and housing pressure provide additional context, especially through the tension between preserving local character and creating modern commercial space. The archival value lies partly in recording signage and branding around National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW before new construction alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include boat museum collection, community identity, waterborne freight, social history, urban fabric, historic narrowboat, public realm, and built heritage. Details involving boots, ceramic, tiles, leather, and Muddy make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history for later comparison.
National Waterways Museum, South Pier Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, UK, CH65 4FW
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Keywords: HotpixUK,GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,box,boxes,F,Jerome,shoe,boot,Jerome & Sons,old,historic,antique,wooden,wood,crate,103,UK,fine,boots,and,shoes,stressed,fashion,invented,made up,bootbox,silver st,organisation,draw,drawer,FJerome,Mayfair London,heritage,past,antiques,relic,relics,curio,curios
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JP9HRA - . This location-specific image from 103 Silver St, Mayfair, London, England, UK in 2022 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The frame specifically shows Old wooden crate, F Jerome & Sons, fine boots and shoes, 103 Silver Street, Mayfair, London, England, UK. The frame also records themes of place identity, changing streetscape, historic artefact, social-history object, commemorative object, historical comparison, historic material culture, period craftsmanship, social history, material culture, antique object, public realm, decorative metalwork, and archival record. From a 2025-onward perspective, craftsmanship and object conservation are closely linked to this subject, alongside how everyday objects can survive as evidence of earlier work and domestic life. Future viewers can use this scene from 103 Silver St, Mayfair, London, England, UK to compare lettering, decoration and surface detail with whatever follows after new ownership. The location also brings in changing land use, local character, period detail, local history, documentary photography, heritage interpretation, regional identity, and before-and-after reference. Elements such as Jerome, Silver, wooden, shoes, and boots add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For 103 Silver St, Mayfair, London, England, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is craftsmanship and how everyday objects can survive as evidence of earlier work and domestic life when considered against later change at 103 Silver St, Mayfair, London, England, UK. The view records a point of historical comparison for future local research. The image fixes part of the area's social history before later change alters the scene.
103 Silver St, Mayfair, London, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,fashionable,footwear,clothes,chic,and,secondhand,212,NW1 8QR,NW1,culture cant be forgotten,Tower LDN Camden,shoe,shoes,boot,boots,retail,independent,business,small,trendy,vibe,selling,rock,heritage,punk,rocker,vintage,new,leather,vegan,alternative
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K16AX5 - . This scene at 210 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The photograph centres on Tower LDN Camden, chic and pre-loved Fashion 210 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR. The frame also records themes of street-level business, commercial frontage, customer footfall, archival record, canal transport, community identity, waterborne freight, boat museum collection, destination shopping, regional identity, local history, working waterway, local enterprise, and mixed-use town centre. For current editorial use, industrial heritage and public access provide additional context, especially through how museum collections preserve working waterway history. Current relevance extends to consumer spending and business rates, particularly through how physical retail adapts to online competition. Future viewers can use this scene from 210 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after redevelopment. Further associations within the scene are waterway conservation, industrial waterway history, navigation engineering, public realm, place identity, period detail, consumer retail, and social history. Elements such as Fashion, Tower, London, Camden, and pre-loved add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. The wider setting at 210 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another strand within the photograph is industrial heritage and how museum collections preserve working waterway history within the real-world context of 210 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR.
210 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,fashionable,footwear,clothes,chic,and,secondhand,212,NW1 8QR,NW1,the,leather,&,boot,shop,store,New Rock,shoes,shoe,retail,independent,business,small,trendy,vibe,selling,rock,heritage,punk,rocker,vintage,new
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K16AX8 - . Made at 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The image documents New Rock boots Chic and pre-loved Fashion 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR. The broader subject matter reaches into canal heritage, bricks-and-mortar retail, place identity, changing land use, visual archive, local character, commercial streetscape, waterway conservation, inland navigation, street-level business, regional identity, historical comparison, boat museum collection, and contemporary social history. The wider contemporary story combines store closures, consumer spending and how physical retail adapts to online competition. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with biodiversity, volunteering and the value of canals as both historic infrastructure and blue-green corridors. The archival value lies partly in recording materials and architectural details around 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR before new ownership alters the character of the place. The surrounding story also includes working waterway, inland transport history, before-and-after reference, towpath landscape, customer footfall, commercial frontage, public realm, and documentary photography. The combination of London, boots, Camden, pre-loved, and Fashion anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. By fixing the subject within 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR, the image preserves more than the headline object or building: it records part of the locality's everyday history. Another useful connection is store closures and how physical retail adapts to online competition within the real-world context of 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR.
212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,fashionable,footwear,clothes,chic,and,secondhand,212,NW1 8QR,NW1,the,leather,&,boot,shop,store,New Rock,shoes,shoe,retail,independent,business,small,trendy,vibe,selling,rock,heritage,punk,rocker,vintage,new
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K16AXB - . An on-location photograph from 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR in 2022, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The principal subject is New Rock boots Chic and pre-loved Fashion 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR. The setting additionally reflects retail property, inland navigation, consumer retail, heritage boating, local character, town-centre economy, street-level business, industrial navigation, shopfront economy, independent trading, before-and-after reference, documentary photography, destination shopping, and community identity. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with changing footfall, business rates and the role of markets and independent shops in keeping town centres active. The modern context includes continuing discussion of heritage conservation, flood resilience and the cost of maintaining ageing locks, boats and canal structures. The archival value lies partly in recording lettering, decoration and surface detail around 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR before new construction alters the character of the place. The location also brings in archival record, waterway conservation, changing streetscape, navigation engineering, everyday life, waterborne freight, mixed-use town centre, and regional identity. The combination of London, Camden, Fashion, boots, and pre-loved anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of 212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. It also preserves evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference. The photograph keeps evidence of earlier appearance for later comparison.
212 Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1 8QR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,England,UK,London,NW1,boot,boots,shoes,shoe,building,store,shop,mural,artwork,advert,ad,advertisement,on,a,in,fashion,British,Airwair,DMs,DM,Made In England,English,tough,as you,Jamestown Road,corner,gable,gable-end,end,Wollaston,Camden Town,design,studio
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K16AXJ - Dr. Martens, also commonly known as Doc Martens, Docs or DMs, is a German-founded British footwear and clothing brand, headquartered in Wollaston in the Wellingborough district of Northamptonshire, England. Although famous for its footwear, Dr. Martens also makes a range of accessories “ such as shoe care products, clothing, and bags. The footwear is distinguished by its air-cushioned sole (dubbed Bouncing Soles), upper shape, welted construction and yellow stitching. Dr Martens' design studio is in Camden Town, London
the manufacturing is in the UK, China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Klaus Märtens was a doctor in the German Army during World War II. After he injured his ankle in 1945, he found that his standard-issue army boots were too uncomfortable on his injured foot. While recuperating, he designed improvements to the boots, with soft leather and air-padded soles made of tyres. When the war ended and some Germans recovered valuables from their own cities, Märtens looted leather from a cobbler's shop. With that leather he made himself a pair of boots with air-cushioned soles
Märtens did not have much success selling his shoes until he met up with an old university friend, Herbert Funck, a Luxembourger, in Munich in 1947. Funck was intrigued by the new shoe design, and the two went into business that year in Seeshaupt, Germany, using discarded rubber shaped by moulds. The comfortable soles were a big hit with housewives, with 80% of sales in the first decade to women over the age of 40
Sales had grown so much by 1952 that they opened a factory in Munich. In 1959, the company had grown large enough that Märtens and Funck looked at marketing the footwear internationally. Almost immediately, British shoe manufacturer R. Griggs Group bought patent rights to manufacture the shoes in the United Kingdom. Griggs anglicised the name to Dr. Martens
Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,Hotpixuk,@HotpixUK,house,Grappenhall,Team,WA4 3EH,WA4,village,Cheshire villages,Grappers,cricket mural,ball,bowl,bowler,art,County,County League,Neil Fairbrother,Steve Tichard,Richard Green,Duncan Martindale,Steve Bramhall,shoe,shoes,mushroom,drama,comedy,time,clock,Candice,spot,spots,side,gable,end,gableend,gable-end
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKBK - Grappenhall Cricket Club, one of the premier Cheshire cricket clubs in the North-West. played its first game in 1881 on a ground in Bellhouse Lane. The club moved to its current home of Broad Lane in 1892 with a new clubhouse. There have been several new clubhouses built on the existing site with the most recent developments coming in the late 1980's with significant improvements to the facilities in 2011.
In the early days the club played a number of friendly matches. Grappers then played regular fixtures up to the 2nd World War. In 1939, before war broke out, Grappers were founder members of the North Cheshire League but the league was stopped at the start of the war and was never resumed. From the 1960's onwards GCC were members of the Manchester Association which was the prelude to the clubs most successful period.
The 70's & 80's “ the golden years
In 1981, after a couple of good seasons following promotion to the top division in the late 70's, the 1st XI won the top flight for the first time. One of Grappenhall's best teams, it included some famous Grappers names such as Duncan Martindale, Rick Houghton, Chris Ashton, Neil Titchard, Jim Green, Nick Sharp and a young Neil Fairbrother, only a few years before he headed off for big things with Lancashire and England.
In 1982, the 1st XI went one better, this time winning the league and cup double with the HC Cup Final being one of a number of appearances the club mate at Old Trafford in the 80's. The double was repeated in 1987 with another appearance at Old Trafford, this time with the team including another future Lancashire star and future Grappers captain in Steve Titchard. In the same season, the 2nd XI also tasted success by winning the Worthington Cup. There were a number of other cup successes for the club during this period for the different senior and junior teams, with many a memorable game taking place and the tales still being regaled today.
Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire,England, UK, WA4 3EH
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,shop,store,shoe,shutter,derelict,rundown,door,doorway,paint,decoration,shuttered,old,terrace,terraced,16,Great Denmark Street,closed,city,centre,urban,retail,now in 54 Dorset Street Lower,Irish,dance,footwear,workshop,Eamon,Fays shoes,Dan Fay,Fay,history,historic,Handmade Irish Dance Footwear
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JBX - Fays Shoes, Handmade Irish Dance Footwear, have always believed in creating only the highest quality Irish dancing rootwear and are the worldwide leaders in the manufacture of high quality Irish dancing shoes. That was recognized in 1995 when we were chosen to be the original and official shoemakers of dancing shoes for Riverdance. Read more about our Riverdance story.
The following newspaper article is taken direct from The Sunday Press, February 12, 1995 - https://www.fays-shoes.com/riverdance/
Eamon and Dan tap into the wonder of Riverdance by Tomas Conlon
DAN Fay and his son Eamon are shoemakers to the stars. In a quiet workshop off Dublin's Parnell Square they have crouched for weeks over their lasts, making the dancing shoes that have clattered in spectacular rhythm at the Riverdance show which premiered Thursday night. Sixty-four-year-old Dan has been making shoes for nearly 50 years but his trade - like Irish dancing itself - came in from the margins at last year's Eurovision when Jean Butler and Michael Flatley tapped their way into the nation's heart.
Ms Butler was wearing their handmade shoes that night, as were most of the backing dancers, and both Jean and Michael will be wearing them for the duration of the Riverdance Show. In addition, they have measured and fitted the Russian Cossack dancers with their shoes, along with the guest tap dancers from America and a host of the supporting performers. The Russians have also had their cossack dancing boots mended in the Fay workshop
Dan and Eamon will also be present backstage each night of the Riverdance show to carry out running repairs on broken straps, loose heels and any other emergencies that might occur. Ms Butler's shoes in fact were rushed by courier to their workshop last Thursday for a repair job just hours before the curtain went up on the show.
The shoes are made entirely from leather with a fiberglass tip at the toe and heel which produces that tap effect.
16 Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: Republic of Ireland,GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Eire,Ireland,shop,store,shoe,shutter,derelict,rundown,door,doorway,paint,decoration,shuttered,old,terrace,terraced,16,Great Denmark Street,closed,city,centre,urban,retail,now in 54 Dorset Street Lower,Irish,dance,footwear,workshop,Eamon,Fays shoes,Dan Fay,Fay,history,historic,Handmade Irish Dance Footwear
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84JC3 - Fays Shoes, Handmade Irish Dance Footwear, have always believed in creating only the highest quality Irish dancing rootwear and are the worldwide leaders in the manufacture of high quality Irish dancing shoes. That was recognized in 1995 when we were chosen to be the original and official shoemakers of dancing shoes for Riverdance. Read more about our Riverdance story.
The following newspaper article is taken direct from The Sunday Press, February 12, 1995 - https://www.fays-shoes.com/riverdance/
Eamon and Dan tap into the wonder of Riverdance by Tomas Conlon
DAN Fay and his son Eamon are shoemakers to the stars. In a quiet workshop off Dublin's Parnell Square they have crouched for weeks over their lasts, making the dancing shoes that have clattered in spectacular rhythm at the Riverdance show which premiered Thursday night. Sixty-four-year-old Dan has been making shoes for nearly 50 years but his trade - like Irish dancing itself - came in from the margins at last year's Eurovision when Jean Butler and Michael Flatley tapped their way into the nation's heart.
Ms Butler was wearing their handmade shoes that night, as were most of the backing dancers, and both Jean and Michael will be wearing them for the duration of the Riverdance Show. In addition, they have measured and fitted the Russian Cossack dancers with their shoes, along with the guest tap dancers from America and a host of the supporting performers. The Russians have also had their cossack dancing boots mended in the Fay workshop
Dan and Eamon will also be present backstage each night of the Riverdance show to carry out running repairs on broken straps, loose heels and any other emergencies that might occur. Ms Butler's shoes in fact were rushed by courier to their workshop last Thursday for a repair job just hours before the curtain went up on the show.
The shoes are made entirely from leather with a fiberglass tip at the toe and heel which produces that tap effect.
16 Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Eire, Ireland
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Keywords: GoTonysmith,@HotpixUK,Horse,Shoe,bar,pub,Horseshoe,24 Drury St,Scotland UK,at night,at dusk,night,dusk,nighttime,night time,JYW,Drury St,city,city centre,drinking,pubs,bars,Scotland,long bar,104 feet,grand,watering hole,Victorian pub,Victorian bar,historic Victorian pub,history,City Centre Pub,central Glasgow,Glasgow Central,Glasgow City Centre,tourist,tourism,outside,exterior
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MM99XX - At 104 feet and three inches, our grand Victorian bar is apparently the longest in Europe and merits an architectural listing all of its own. It's the centre of the Horseshoe, where you'll find great value pub-food and quality Scottish beers to go with it. We're also pretty big on live sport, with 11 screens and early opening times for major fixtures. The lounge upstairs has been graced by some famous singers
24 Drury St, Glasgow, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H9PM3A - . This location-specific image from Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK in 2016 provides a visual record of the subject in everyday context, useful for both contemporary editorial work and later historical comparison. The main point of reference is Orange Nike shop logo in shop window,Glasgow. A broader reading of the photograph includes visual archive, place identity, customer footfall, documentary photography, period detail, small business, historical comparison, commercial frontage, public realm, everyday life, local trading, specialist retailer, before-and-after reference, and retail property. In present-day coverage, the subject reaches into online shopping and consumer spending, not least because of how shopfronts become short-lived records of changing businesses and branding. Future viewers can use this scene from Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK to compare transport arrangements and footfall with whatever follows after later reinterpretation. The subject also sits alongside changing land use, town-centre economy, archival record, local story.htm Target=_Blank>history, independent retail, regional identity, social history, and shopfront economy. The combination of Orange, window, and Glasgow anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. A later view of Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The scene further reflects online shopping and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets within the specific setting of Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK. Its period value extends to store closures and how consumer spending and property costs shape local commercial streets as part of the longer story of Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK. The scene captures a trace of local identity as part of Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK's history. The period view preserves a local visual benchmark for future local research.
Buchanon St,Glasgow,Scotland,UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6036928404 - 'Squeeze - Tempted - Play this track here.
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A track that nearly brings tears to my eyes, a memory of a very low time.
But why is it that women like shoes so much? Now I am looking for comments from you lady contacts and those male contacts who do appreciate relaxing in nylons and fine Italian leather....
Shoes are beautiful objects, no doubt about that. Nice shoes are a piece of art. It feels good for females to hold them, look at them, and most importantly wear them. Like a nice china pot that can be held and investigated.
Maybe you look at your shoe collection in the same way that an art collector looks at her art collection. Do you have a much better sense of yourself when you wear nice shoes or boots?
When you think about a wardrobe full of shoes, do you feel safe and satisfied? Do you love the feeling of buying new shoes, wearing them and then looking at yourself in a mirror?
Then you might be tempted.........
Squeeze are a British band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs 'Cool for Cats', 'Up the Junction', 'Tempted', 'Labelled With Love', 'Black Coffee In Bed', 'Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)', and 'Hourglass'. Though not quite as commercially successful in the U.S., 'Tempted', 'Hourglass' and '853-5937' were all American chart hits for Squeeze, and the band have a dedicated following there and continue to attract new fans. All of Squeeze's hits were written by band members Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford.
The group formed in Deptford, London in 1975, and first broke up in 1982. Squeeze then reformed in 1985, and broke up again in 1999.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K16AXK - Dr. Martens, also commonly known as Doc Martens, Docs or DMs, is a German-founded British footwear and clothing brand, headquartered in Wollaston in the Wellingborough district of Northamptonshire, England. Although famous for its footwear, Dr. Martens also makes a range of accessories “ such as shoe care products, clothing, and bags. The footwear is distinguished by its air-cushioned sole (dubbed Bouncing Soles), upper shape, welted construction and yellow stitching. Dr Martens' design studio is in Camden Town, London
the manufacturing is in the UK, China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Klaus Märtens was a doctor in the German Army during World War II. After he injured his ankle in 1945, he found that his standard-issue army boots were too uncomfortable on his injured foot. While recuperating, he designed improvements to the boots, with soft leather and air-padded soles made of tyres. When the war ended and some Germans recovered valuables from their own cities, Märtens looted leather from a cobbler's shop. With that leather he made himself a pair of boots with air-cushioned soles
Märtens did not have much success selling his shoes until he met up with an old university friend, Herbert Funck, a Luxembourger, in Munich in 1947. Funck was intrigued by the new shoe design, and the two went into business that year in Seeshaupt, Germany, using discarded rubber shaped by moulds. The comfortable soles were a big hit with housewives, with 80% of sales in the first decade to women over the age of 40
Sales had grown so much by 1952 that they opened a factory in Munich. In 1959, the company had grown large enough that Märtens and Funck looked at marketing the footwear internationally. Almost immediately, British shoe manufacturer R. Griggs Group bought patent rights to manufacture the shoes in the United Kingdom. Griggs anglicised the name to Dr. Martens
Camden High Street, Camden Town, London, England, UK, NW1
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HF98 - The Many Reasons Why Women Love Shoes So Very Much
By the time you've reached the shoe store, the body has begun to release dopamine and serotonin as well as norepinephrine and oxytocin
Women love shoes
it's an indisputable fact! Some women love high heels
some women love shoes that are bejewelled and bedazzled, some love Western boots, some love gladiator sandals, some love ballet pumps and some love thick, heavy boots. Whatever your shoe of choice, we know you love them. Ladies stalk through the pages of fashion magazines or blogs, searching for discounted designer fashion, we trawl through vintage and second-hand shops looking for just the right pair of already worn-in leather, we window shop with eyes lit up like Christmas trees. No judgement here
shoes are the best! The question is, why do women love shoes so much? I mean, in the end, they're really just safety coverings for your feet¦aren't they? Let's unpack some of the reasons why women love shoes so much.
Shoes: A Love Story
There's the obvious reason, of course: shoes are pretty. I can't count the times I have seen a gorgeous woman walking down the street. Her hair is blowing softly in the breeze, her face alight with happiness, her outfit perfectly coordinated and then¦boom, bad shoes. A bad shoe can destroy all the beauty in a perfect outfit, in the same way, a beautiful shoe serves to complement it. A lovely pair of shoes is the star on top of the tree
no outfit is quite complete without it! There's a shoe to suit every kind of woman. If you like adding a little height and extending those gorgeous legs, then high heels are for you. Platforms, stilettos, boots¦and the list goes on
Curator of a recent exhibition at F.I.T. in New York, Valerie Steele, believes that shoes become an extension of a woman's body and that they say a lot about our social status, sexuality, ethics and attitude. Valerie wondered if perhaps, the sculptural quality of shoes is part of the reason
Covent Garden, London, England, UK
