Bideford Folk Festival is happy to have Taylor Bros as the sponsor for the Morris Weekend

Family Firm

Taylor Bros a family run venture, has been located in Mill street since 1949 when our doors first opened. Originally providing customers with a shoe repair service, over the years the shop has grown into a strong standing footwear specialist within the town of Bideford.

Craftsmen shoe repairs

Whether you want to replace the worn heel of your shoe, or perhaps your favourite boots have developed a hole, Taylor Bros with its fully equipped workshop which, combined with the talents of our craftsman shoe repairer is ready to step in and help you.

Key cutting service

We also provide a comprehensive key-cutting service. We supply keys for the home, office, cars and vans including a range of the new micro-chipped car keys.

Shoes for every occasion

We have a large range of personally selected Ladies, and Men’s shoes. We stock all the leading brands such as Hotter, Rieker, Padders, Hush puppies, Wrangler, Moshulu, Pikolinos, Elmdale and Equity. We stock shoes for every occasion – for walking the dog to dance shoes – for doing the shopping to floral Wellington boots.

visit the specialists and enjoy your new shoes

Tel 01237-472820

Weekend of Dance – Colour, music and spectacle

Morris Sides will be dancing at various locations throughout Bideford on Saturday 19th. There will be the very popular Appalachian Dancers at the Mill Street, Baptist Church site and roaming around there will be Cotswold, Border and Clog dancers as well. All our local sides are represented as well as sides from all over the West Country. There will be sides dancing at the Kathleen and May and the Blacksmiths Arms in Torrington Lane, East the Water after lunch.

On Sunday the sides will be repairing to the Blacksmiths for some informal dancing and carousing from 12pm.

There will be dancing at the following sites;

Pannier Market, Allhalland Street, Mill Street, Peter, Peter and Wright (opposite the Lundy Office), the Kathleen & May, Blacksmiths Arms. If you can’t see any just follow the sound of music and bells.

Lunch time will probably be around 12-12.30pm when the sides will repair to the Inns, and eating houses of the town for sustenance before setting off again at about 2pm