In which English town is 'The Hat Works', the only museum of hats and headwear in the country?
Hat Works factory closed in 1980, followed by the Christy's factory in 1997, bringing to an end over 400 years of hatting in the area. The industry is commemorated by the UK's only dedicated hatting museum, the Hat Works. Hat Works The Hat Works is a museum in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, which opened in 2000. Before that, smaller displays of hatting equipment were exhibited in Stockport Museum and in the former Battersby hat factory. The building, Wellington Mill, was built as an early fireproof cotton spinning mill in 1830–1831 before becoming a hat works in the 1890s. It is a Grade
Levine Hat Company a St Louis Art Museum exhibit featuring works of Edgar Degas. In 2018, it won the "Retailer of the Year" award from the National Headwear Association. Levine Hat Company Levine Hat Company is a privately owned, family-operated hat store in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The business was founded by Benjamin Levine in 1903. Levine Hat Company's showroom houses up to 50,000 hats at any given time, most of which are available for customers to browse and try on. In 1903, shortly after emigrating from Russia, Benjamin Levine and his young family began a small hatmaking operation in Saint Louis.