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About us & contact information

We are closed SAT 9th Jan 2010 due to frozen pipes.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to adverse weather conditions we are unable to dispatch orders on tuesday/wednesday as our couriers are unable to collect or deliver.

 

Thank-you for your patience

Postal address:

Alternative Footwear

8 Cuba Industrial estate, Ramsbottom.

Lancashire. BL0 0NE.

Tel: 01706 829955 (4 lines)

Fax: 01706 829272

Email sales@alternative-footwear.co.uk

Our warehouse showroom is open to the public

Hours of Business

Monday - Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm Saturday 11.00am - 3.00pm

Sunday Closed

Visit our showroom in person

About Alternative Footwear

Alternative Footwear specialise in unusual shoes and boots. Not that our footwear is strange, just you won't find it in your local shoe shop. Known locally as the kinky boot factory, AF now operates purely from our warehouse and distribution centre in Ramsbottom, Lancs. No, before you ask we are NOT in London! There is life outside the M25! So why not London? Well, we are in the heart of the valley (Bacup and Rawtenstall) and as anyone in the footwear industry will tell you the valley was the engine room of shoe production in the UK, and is still thriving. There is still a steam train from Ramsbottom to Rawtenstall in operation today.

Our history, Alternative Footwears 1st direct retail outlet was in the town centre of Ramsbottom, less than a mile from our distribution centre, many of our regular customers and visitors still talk about it. 

With our continuing efforts to meet customer demands, a retail showroom was built inside our distribution centre giving a greater selection and ease of availability to our ever-growing customers needs and eventually closed our little shop. Even today we still have calls from returning customers stood outside our old shop (which is now a hair salon) asking for directions. We deliberately had our shop telephone numbers now redirected to our warehouse as well as our direct warehouse ones. So if you're looking at an advert of ours from many years ago hopefully we can help you find us.

 

 

Warehouse showroom open to the public

Our warehouse and distribution centre in Ramsbottom, Lancs.

Inside the warehouse showroom is an impressive selection of footwear to suit most tastes. From high heels, platforms, stilettos, knee boots, thigh boots to gothic platforms and creepers all available to try on and buy there and then. But we don’t just do high heels!

 

 

Out and About

We no longer attend the monthly fairs up and down the country, as the physical logistics usually entail an artic truck. However, we usually attend two events each year.

Erotica: London. Normally towards the last week in November.

 

The picture below shows our 80sq. metre stand from November 2004.

The picture below shows our Erotica stand from November 2007. 

 

 

 

 

Above: Our stand at the Skin Two Expo, sadly SkinTwo and The Xpo are now separate events we are hoping this will change in the future.

 

So, if you're wondering if we actually have any stock, or are we just a dot com company who operates from its kitchen table we hope we have given you a little insight in our company.

Thank-you to our customers one and all.

AF

Opening hours: Monday- Friday 10am to 5pm. Saturday: 11am – 3pm

Alternative Footwear. 8 Cuba Industrial estate. Ramsbottom. Lancs. BL0 0NE

Tel: 01706 829955