Apr 21, 2026 · 36 min · 17 segments
When you’ve been learning your craft for almost two and a half centuries, you can confidently call yourself ‘the world’s finest’. John Smedley have been making their knitwear in Derbyshire since 1784…
Number of times people have asked me to take off my trousers in a, in a workshop, Hamed.
It is becoming a little harder to get young kids out of college that want to get their hands dirty and learn some of these very traditional art forms.
Join me as we compile a list of the greatest items made in the UK, and hear stories from inside our factories.
He said, "You should, um, plan like you're gonna live forever and live like you're gonna die tomorrow," which I think is a very good way of looking at it.
[laughs] Welcome to The Factory Next Door, and welcome to Matlock in Derbyshire, a river next door to us, and a factory in front of us.
And the river, well, the garments they make in that factory, they wash them in these lovely crystal clear waters.
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Number of times people have asked me to take off my trousers in a, in a workshop, Hamed.
It is becoming a little harder to get young kids out of college that want to get their hands dirty and learn some of these very traditional art forms.
Join me as we compile a list of the greatest items made in the UK, and hear stories from inside our factories.
He said, "You should, um, plan like you're gonna live forever and live like you're gonna die tomorrow," which I think is a very good way of looking at it.
[laughs] Welcome to The Factory Next Door, and welcome to Matlock in Derbyshire, a river next door to us, and a factory in front of us.
And the river, well, the garments they make in that factory, they wash them in these lovely crystal clear waters.
