| Company |
Directors or Partners |
Other details |
established
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notes |
| Advance Boot Co |
|
G H Clarke |
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| Allebone & Sons Ltd |
Augustus Allebone, H Allebone, Arthur Allebone |
moved to larger premises in High St 1908 |
1902
|
new factory 1916 |
| Ashford & Campion |
W Ashford, W Campion |
|
c1907
|
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| Austin |
A & Co |
|
|
1900
|
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| British United Shoe Machinery Co Ltd. |
|
|
1899
|
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| Bull |
C & Co |
Alfred Clayton, Walter Clayton |
founded by Chas Bull |
1888
|
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| Catling & Durham |
|
E Catling, H Durham |
Duck Street |
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| Cave |
John & Sons Ltd |
A E Marlow J.P., C Pettitt J.P., C.C., H Morton J.P. |
W E Capon, finance, Geo Morgan, manager |
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| Central Machinery Co Ltd |
|
established in Kettering about 1903 |
1910
|
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| Chamberlain |
W W |
W W Chamberlain, W H Chamberlain, D Chamberlain |
|
1913
|
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| Chrome Tanning Company Ltd |
W J Shaw, J L Harris, F G Harris, J A Harris |
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| Claridge |
William |
John Claridge J.P., Charles Claridge |
|
1865
|
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| Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd |
|
L Tysoe, manager. |
|
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| Corby |
Fred |
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apprenticed at B Denton & Son |
1890
|
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| Cox & Son |
|
Albert Cox, Edgar Cox |
patentee of Flexible Britannia & Gem Slugging Machines |
|
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| Coxton Shoe Co Ltd |
T W Cox, C J Newton |
|
c1913
|
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| Cunnington Bros |
|
I Cunnington, R C Cunnington |
|
1882
|
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| Davison |
W H & Co Ltd |
W H Davison, W Dilley |
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| Duncan |
W L |
(page cut out of book - taken from a supplement to S & L News Oct 1916) |
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| Eaton & Co |
|
Harry Eaton, Frank Eaton |
|
c1910
|
|
| Groome |
Abraham & Sons |
|
started at Higham Ferrers and moved to Rushden in 1899 |
1850
|
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| Harris Bros Ltd |
|
Joseph L Harris, Frederick G Harris, John A Harris |
(previously J L Harris) |
1909
|
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| Horrell |
C W |
|
|
1894
|
|
| Hyde |
James Ltd |
James Hyde |
|
c1896
|
|
| Jaques |
& Son Ltd |
Harry F Jaques, John Spencer J.P., Arthur H Lawson (secretary) |
|
1910
|
|
| Knight & Laurence Ltd |
H E Knight, H C C Knight, A E Bates |
founded by the late W C Knight |
1889
|
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| Ladds |
Benjamin |
|
|
1891
|
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| Lilley & Skinner Ltd |
|
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| Nene Valley Leather Co. |
Dr. W. W. Robb, J.P. (Chairman), Mr. E. E. Rice, Mr F. Hawkes, Mr. J. T. Hawthorne, Mr. E. Pack, Mr. L. M. Tigh (Managing Director)
|
|
1916
|
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| Nurrish, Pallett & Co |
J W Nurrish, S A Pallett |
|
1890
|
|
| Patenall |
W A & Sons |
William Alfred Patenall, Percy Charles Patenall, Hedley Alfred Patenall |
|
1889
|
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| Premier Boot Co |
|
James Jaques |
retired from Jaques & Son Ltd in 1910 |
1915
|
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| Radburne & Bennett Ltd |
J Bennett, J W Radburne |
|
1910
|
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| Robinson |
T & Sons |
Thomas Robinson, S Robinson, F Robinson |
|
1908
|
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| Sanders & Sanders |
|
W B Sanders, senr, W B Sanders, junr, T Sanders |
|
1876
|
|
| Sargent |
Alfred & Sons |
A Sargent, F Sargent, H Sargent |
founded in John Street |
1900
|
Portland Road 1915 |
| Selwood |
Geo & Co |
Geo Selwood, F J Sharwood, H B Selwood |
F Selwood, representative |
1890
|
new factory 1893 |
| Skeeles & Co |
|
F A Skeeles sen, F A Skeeles jun. |
|
c1896
|
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| Standard Rotary Machine Co Ltd |
John Loake, Arthur Cave |
|
1902
|
|
| Tecnic Boot Co Ltd |
|
W C Tarry, F J Tarry, Harold Scott |
|
1914
|
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| Victoria Leather |
|
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| Wright |
Horace |
|
Summit Boot Works |
c1916
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