Clarks opens up a shoebox of memories with museum to mark 200th year

<p>Shoemakers Museum in Somerset village of Street displays everything from school shoes to Wallabees and Desert Boots</p><p>For some visitors, the museum may bring back memories of being fitted for their first pair of school shoes on a rather chilly metal gauge. For others, the cabinets of pristine Wallabees and Desert Boots may recall teenage obsessions with US hip-hop or Britpop movements.</p><p>Memories will also flood back for the many local people whose families made Clarks shoes for generations, when the box-fresh <a href="https://shoemakersmuseum.org.uk/">Shoemakers Museum</a> opens in the Somerset village of Street, near Glastonbury, on Thursday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/18/clarks-opens-up-a-shoebox-of-memories-with-museum-to-mark-200th-year">Continue reading...</a>