Not the most prepossessing of places, the workroom, but a textbook example of the sort of place that the trade really would be lost without.
Within walking distance of central London, the workroom keeps things ticking over with the least possible space and equipment. Indeed, it's an admirably streamlined state of affairs, and has turned samples round for the established, and accommodatingly small production runs for start-ups, for as long as anyone can remember. Read more on it here.
The workshop was built over a century ago, and for the past decade or more has served competently and compactly as company headquarters. Garments aren’t made here, of course — that’s the purview now of makers across the British Isles — but it is quite handy for the development of them.
S.E.H Kelly
1 Cleve Workshops, Boundary Street, London E2 7JD.
020 3397 0449
Not open very much at all, these days, the workshop. Still, look out for the first workshop in the row, and if the lights are on, step on inside why not.