Overview

Shoemakers - outworkers to conveyor system

• Bignells Ltd.

• Bignells Ltd 1943

The Growth of the Shoe Industry

• Charles Bull & Co - Company Difficulties

The Rise & Fall of the Shoe Trade

• John Cave & Sons

(includes interactive maps feature)

• John Cave & Sons - plans 1901

• John Cave & Sons - 1905

• Shoe Trade and Non-conformity 1881-1901

• John Cave & Sons - 1905 inside factory

• Non-conformist Shoe Manufacturers

• John Cave & Sons Ltd - 1906

• John Cave & Sons - 1940s workers

• John Cave & Sons - 1950s - retirement & outing

• Centenary - 1950 (includes e-book feature)

• Clarke T T - Bespoke Boots

• Clarke & Co

• Co-op

• New Factory Opens 1901

The Great Lockout 1895

• Peter Danby - Co-op Fire Brigade (includes sound clip)

• Fire Team - Winners 1927

• Fire Team - 1940s

Trade Union 1934

• Inside the factory c1970s

NUBSO Report 1967

• Factory demolition 1987

• Cunnington Bros.

• Denton's

• D B Shoes Ltd

• DB Shoes in 1975

• Double 'M' Shoemakers 1982

• Fine Art Shoe Co. (includes e-book feature)

• Sidney Fox

• William Green - founder of Grenson

• Grenson's Centenary

• William Hewitt

• C W Horrell

• C W Horrell 1976

• Jaques & Clark

• Tom Thacker - Memories

Rushden Shoe Trade 1982

• Sanders & Sanders

• Fire 1924

• W B Sanders retires 1925

• Old Papers - 1884

• Customers - 1884

• Outworkers - 1884

The Export Trade

• Alfred Sargent's

• Wilkins and Denton - "Totectors"

• Tyzone Boot Company

• P Collins & Co Ltd

• Rushden Heel Co Ltd

• Building of Lime Street Factory

• Shortlands

• Inside Lime Street

• Reunion Dinner 1963

• H T Mackness

• Wedding of John White's daughter

• Victoria Shoe Company

• Chapman's

• Miller's

• Shoe Trade in the 1930s

• Central Machinery Co.

• Gas Engines

• Radburne & Bennett Ltd

Cox & Wright

• Starting Work - Doris Watts

• A Cox & Wright Apprenticeship 1973

• Jim Matthews - A Life in the Shoe Trade (includes audio clips)

Riveting

• Alan Harper - Shoe Trade Memories

Slugging Machine 1907

Fred Hawkes

Fatality at Tannery 1923

Accidents

Flu 1970

Perkins & Eden - 1893