Norman Walsh news and archive

Community Clothing launching trainers with Norman Walsh

Community Clothing, the apparel brand and social enterprise founded by Patrick Grant, is launching trainers made in the UK with cult British sports shoemaker Normal Walsh. Grant has worked with the Walsh team to re-design a 1980s running shoe from their extensive archive to introduce a new unisex running shoe named ‘Beacon’ after Beacon Fell, a...

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Norman Walsh Footwear Autumn Winter 2022

Tucked away on an unmarked backstreet in Bolton is probably the last place on earth you might expect to find a manufacturer of footwear but, to many peoples surprise lays the entrance to Britain’s sole remaining maker of traditional footwear. Situated on the site where once an old muslin cotton mill stood, Norman Walsh Footwear soldiers on with...

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Walsh x Solovair Ref. 830 boot

This season, Norman Walsh has collaborated with the renowned Northamptonshire Productive Society (NPS) and their famous brand Solovair. From small beginnings to the present day, and like Walsh, NPS Shoes has lived a product defining history! By combining over 190 years of traditional craftsmanship between the two, this new launch makes a great...

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Norman Walsh Footwear Spring/Summer ‘22

2021 saw Walsh celebrate 60 years of British manufacturing, 60 years of British design and 60 years of British ownership. Walsh is proudly recognised as a traditional British manufacture of footwear and a quintessentially iconic brand since 1961. Each shoe is individually handled by highly skilled and prideful artisans who personally ensure that...