The Coke – A Bowler Hat History by Lock & Co.

Presented by Paul Hier, Lock & Co. Historian and Ben Dalrymple, Managing Director, Lock & Co.

Thursday 15th May
6pm - 6.40pm

The year is 1849 and nobleman Edward Coke commissions Lock & Co. to design a hat for his gamekeepers. Locks, in turn, commissions one of their most reliable suppliers, Thomas Bowler & Son, to make it. The result is the now iconic Coke hat or Bowler hat. Lock & Co. will take you on a journey from the invention of the Bowler hat, its roots in the country, the evolution to becoming an iconic London city-staple - and even how it conquered the American Wild West.