Finding 01 · the lineage is buried
206 years on the same High Street, four generations of Clarks, and the year 1819 appears only once on the homepage, in a small sub-header.
What I saw
The trading lineage runs from Harris in 1819, to Harris and Kenward, to Wilfred Ernest Clark in 1919, to Jack Clark in 1947, to John Clark in 1971, to David Clark in 2000. The 1979 purchase of 224 High Street, the 2000 flood, the 2012 consolidation, the 2017 Uckfield opening, the 2019 bicentenary. None of this is on the homepage. The site leads with a Roberto Coin brand banner. "Since 1819" lives only in the title tag and a sub-header line above the brand carousels.
What the rebuild does about it
The hero leads with the 1819 date, names Wilfred Ernest Clark and the 1919 acquisition, and runs a seven-step timeline that ends with David Clark today. A heritage block on a dark navy ground carries the Harris to Clark handover, the 2000 flood the year David joined at nineteen, and the bicentenary. The number 206 gets the typographic weight it earns.
"Since 1819" mentions on the live homepage · 1 | in the rebuild · 14