Friday July 29th 2011
We like coffee. We really like great coffee. So we’re thrilled to announce the start of a new collaboration for Albam with our favourite coffee baristas in London: Bean About Town. BAT have a pretty strong case for providing London’s best coffee on-the-go, with their fleet of Piaggio Apes, market barrows, tricycles and Citroen H Van a firm feature …
Posted by Andy at 7:10pm
Thursday July 28th 2011
Unfortunately all of the Albam team were a bit busy over the past week, so didn’t make it down to Cornwall for the Port Eliot Festival. Even worse than missing it is being sent some photos of the fun and frivolity that was had by those who did make the journey.
As we posted last week, our friend John …
Posted by Andy at 11:47am
Tuesday July 26th 2011
The Quintessential English Blogger has just done a little feature on our Summer Harrington Jackets. You can see the post here or find the Harrington on the website by clicking here. Don’t forget they are also available at each store, call ahead to check your size!
Also out in web-land this week, The Sabotage Times have done a review of …
Posted by James at 6:24pm
Monday July 25th 2011
Here at Albam we dearly love our adoptive city of London – but she can (as some of you can probably attest) be a cruel mistress at times, especially when trying to get somewhere new.
Fortunately, Mr Harry Beck created the London Underground Tube Map way back in 1931 and it’s still assisting our navigation to brilliant effect.
The whole …
Posted by Alex at 7:24am
Thursday July 21st 2011
Was having a little look through some old photos last night and unearthed these snaps of our Spitalfields store in the days leading up to its grand opening in November 2009.
Although a few of our East London neighbours look remarkably similar to the store in this state, for us it’s pretty strange seeing our little shop like this. As …
Posted by Andy at 8:12am
Wednesday July 20th 2011
If you haven’t already, pop your details here into our website to join our mailing list and you’ll be in with the chance of winning £250 of COMPLETELY FREE Albam clothes. And even better news: we’ll be picking a winner at the end of every month!
So if you like what we do, and want to be the first to
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Posted by Andy at 8:09am
Tuesday July 19th 2011
We’ve got a few new bits and pieces coming into stores and online over the next few weeks, so to make a bit of space we’ve marked down our Sale styles even further – most of them to at least 40% off.
We’ve also pulled all of the Sale stock from our stores and made them available exclusively online …
Posted by Andy at 7:24pm
Monday July 18th 2011
After the roaring success of the inaugural Mr Natty, we’ve just added a few more appointments to this Thursday’s event: unfortunately most slots have been booked, but we’ve got a few spaces available in the early afternoon, so if you’ve got the day off (or can think of a valid excuse as to why you’d disappeared halfway through the working …
Posted by Andy at 12:34pm
Monday July 18th 2011
In the mid 1970s, Royal Robbins turned his hand to kayaking – or “adventure boating,” as he called it – down rivers from vertiginous mountain elevations, or vicious creeks in full flood. Robbins had just been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis; and that was Robbins taking things ‘easy’.
Originally from West Virginia, Royal Robbins moved to California as a small boy …
Posted by Alex at 7:45am
Friday July 15th 2011
Of all the fantastic stalls filling Spitalfields’ Antique Market on a Thursday, Andrews of Arcadia‘s has long been one of our favourites: vintage fishing tackle, copies of ‘Mr Crabtree goes Fishing’ and general angling paraphernalia form the backbone of this temple to the beautiful pursuit.
So we’re therefore really excited to get the ball rolling on a small collaboration with …
Posted by Andy at 4:39pm
