Mike Redwood
Tanneries and associated companies
14th September 2023
Yeovil shocked by Pittards sudden closure
Pittards employees to be made redundant 7th September 2023 This article from Business Live, as per the link The troubled leather goods manufacturer, which is based in Somerset, employs around 150 people in the UK and 900 in Ethiopia Abigail Turner Leather goods firm Pittards’ head office in Yeovil (Image: Google Maps) Historic leather goods […]
4th October 2008
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower
(First published by APLF, Hong Kong, in my Cool Hunting Column) One of the famous characters of the 20th century leather industry was Bert Childs, a hide and skin trader from Liverpool. His wife used to collect sand as she travelled around the world and after staying with them in the early nineteen eighties I […]