Every shoe you have ever owned started life as one of eleven. Eleven base patterns. That is the whole vocabulary of footwear design, according to...

Ten years ago, Chris Woodford made a decision in a Tokyo store that changed everything for Crown. We told that story in our last blog....

Ten years ago, Crown Northampton started selling shoes direct to the people who would wear them. The Woodford family had spent over a hundred years...

Every factory in Northampton has an Oxford pattern of some kind. A hundred years ago, the well dressed man needed a shoe to match the...

Each month we follow one of our shoes through the factory and tell the story of a customer wearing it. June's Shoe of the Month...

The Harlestone is our most popular Hand Stitch sneaker, and it now comes in the softest leather we have ever worked with. The upper sits...

The wholecut pattern has been in the Woodford family for as long as anyone can remember. In the early 1900s, Chris's great grandfather entered shoemaking...

The loafer has been part of Northampton's shoemaking story for nearly eighty years. The pattern found its way into the town's factories in the 1950s...

We are always looking for new ways to honour this town's 800 years of shoemaking craft. Last year we introduced our first hand welted sneaker....