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Northampton exhibition tracks history of athletic footwear

10/12/2010

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery is to stage an exhibition that traces the history of athletic footwear in the new year. The event, called ‘Sport to Street’, will show the development of sports footwear from the soft-soled tennis shoe worn by England’s King Henry VIII in the sixteenth century to the popular brands of today. Northampton is home...

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