MD1888 Eyewear

Owen Morgan-Davies, a famous entrepreneur in Wales at the time, moved to Liverpool with his young family in 1888. His personal frames survived and were handed down to his great-great-grandson Tom Davies, who used the frame as inspiration for the MD1888 collection.

Half a century ago, factories up and down Great Britain were crafting products for the growing population and for export around the world. Britain had a proud history of eyewear production and hundreds of thousands of frames were manufactured before the industry slowly faded away, much as it did in many other countries.

The House of Tom Davies is training a new generation of spectacle makers and pioneering new production methods and services here in Great Britain. The brands in our house celebrate each of the great nations which make up the United Kingdom. MD1888 is our welsh brand, inspired as you will read in this brochure, by Tom’s family history which is steeped in Welsh connections.