Axminster Carpets, as it happens, had the JD Wetherspoon contract for only two years, during which it produced about 100 pub carpets. The rest of the Axminsters in JD Wetherspoons were made by ...

The biggest influence on the way Axminster looks today has not been carpets but fires, mostly accidental. “The manufacture of this place is chiefly carpets,” wrote Stebbing Shaw, a touring ...