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A museum with a huge collection of shoes has re-opened in Northamptonshire after a £310,000 refurbishment. Northampton Museum and Art Gallery claims to house the world's largest collection of ...
The highlight of the £500,000 Life and Sole gallery at Northampton Central Museum is a recreation of an old shoe factory. Other features are displays on foot health and specialist shoes. It will ...
Shoe museum gets a serious makeover. Central. Northampton Museum. Northampton. ... There are over 50,000 of them at Northampton Museum - some of them dating back to 1000BC.
The exhibit was created by Michael James, of Springline Ltd, a Northampton based shoe manufacturer that was founded in 1982. Rebecca Shawcross, from Duston, is a curator at the Northampton Museum ...
The concept of a shoe museum may seem a little odd, but to the town of Northampton in the UK, about 110 kilometres north-west of London, it is a way of highlighting its boot and shoemaking heritage.
On Friday 23 November I was invited to the opening of the Milly J Shoes exhibition at the Northampton Shoe Museum. For those of you who regularly read my articles, you'll likely recall my article ...
The Northampton Museum has evidence suggesting that King John—of Robin Hood fame—ordered a pair of boots here in 1213; Oliver Cromwell, the rebel republican, shod his army in town.
A museum with a collection of world famous shoes officially reopens in Northamptonshire after a £310,000 refurbishment. Northampton's world famous shoe museum reopens after refurbishment - BBC News ...