alga-rimway
Hackney Wick, London, since 1932.
Alga-Rimway, since 1932
Born in Hackney Wick, London
1946The NHS
After the war Algha makes frames for the free National Health Service.
1988Savile Row
Free NHS glasses end overnight, and the factory reinvents itself with its own label, Savile Row Eyewear.
Algha is the last spectacle frame factory in the UK, and some of the machines brought over from Germany in 1932 still run.
How to recognise a vintage Alga-Rimway
Inside the temples you usually find the model code, the colour code and three numbers for the size: lens width, bridge and temple length, in millimetres.
Nothing in stock right now
Every frame is one of one. See the archive