May bank holiday weekend saw the return of the &SONS team at The Tobacco Docks for The Bike Shed Show 2018.

Never mind that the real-life tunnel escape from WW2 German POW camp, Stalag Luft III, was undertaken by British and Commonwealth military prisoners, the American director John Sturges knew his market and wanted to cast Steve McQueen.

Emilio Colonna didn’t grow up in the leather-working trade and yet he had the patience to teach himself the skills required to make the hand-crafted leather watchstraps, wallets, belts and bags he sells from his characterful store on the Via Scandriglia in Rome.