{"title":"Walsh","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"collection-description-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, a Bolton cobbler dropped a bead of EVA into a shoe mould and, by most accounts, invented the modern trainer sole. Norman Walsh had already made running spikes for the 1948 Olympic team and boots for a Cup-winning Bolton Wanderers, but it was watching runners struggle across the Pennines that pushed him to build something genuinely new: the Walsh PB, made with fell-running pioneer Pete Bland in 1970, is credited as the world's first purpose-built fell shoe. Sir Chris Bonington's team wore Walsh boots on Everest. Don Ritchie set a 100km world record in a pair of Tornados that stood unbroken for forty years. None of it made Walsh a household name — it just made the shoes very, very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat quiet obsession with getting the details right still runs through the brand today. The silhouettes are the same ones Norman drew decades ago, updated with a sharper colour palette and the odd unexpected material — British Millerain waxed cotton, Yorkshire melton wool, Ventile. Walsh has become something of an open secret among people who've done their homework: worn on the fells, in Wembley finals, and now on the feet of anyone who wants proper English shoemaking heritage without the shouting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collection-description-read-more\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"readmore\" href=\"#\"\u003eREAD MORE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1482\/7698\/collections\/Walsh_collection_image.jpg?v=1788431574","url":"https:\/\/de.wildbounds.com\/collections\/walsh.oembed","provider":"WildBounds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}