Barker in Dorset has offered its support to the 2020 Vendee Globe competitor, Pip Hare, by signing up as an official partner. The successful sailor and marine journalist, who hails from Poole, will be lining up in November 2020, along with 30 international skippers to...
Downton Abbey has sparked a revival in men wearing formal starched collars with their eveningwear. Here’s how to recreate the Earl of Grantham’s look for yourself.
A Bournemouth-based firm has become one of only 160 companies in the world to receive royal approval, for supplying a high quality laundry service to the family home of the Prince of Wales. Local laundry and dry cleaning service, Anthony A Barker Ltd, better known as...
A Bournemouth laundry has revived the art of producing a starched collar, thanks to film and TV productions including Downton Abbey. Read the full story.
THEY provide a stylish elegance more commonly associated with a bygone era. But the world’s last remaining starched collar laundry is now doing a booming trade in a British seaside town – thanks to period TV dramas such as Downton Abbey. A century ago, starched...
