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HIS TORY
G
eorge Cleverley was born on the 10th of August 1898 into a shoem
parents when he was aged two and spent his childhood selling bootlac
the Army for World War I and stationed in London before joining an a
society London shoemaker on Clifford Street, Mayfair. He remained th
G.J.Cleverley of Cork Street, Mayfair, London. On Cork Street he furthe
and became known for making the Cleverley shape - a graceful, chisel-
in 1991 at nearly 93 years of age and