Thank goodness they don’t make boots like they used to

September 2021

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Letter of the month Thank goodness they don’t make boots like they used to I read correspondent River Howe’s letter, ‘Boots not what they used to be’, with some interest. But my own experiences of older tramping boots are rather different to his.  I remember well the trials of breaking in new John Bull, or […]

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