At the age of 28, our founder, a foreman for a hosiery manufacturer in Hinckley, asked his bank for a £1200 overdraft to build the first in the small Leicestershire village of Stoke Golding. From his meagre wage of £2 a week, he managed to save £500, a substantial sum in 1882. From a small firm employing just 16 people and with a monthly turnover of £32 4s 4d, we have grown to become the largest independent UK sock manufacturer today.

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