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  • Workers at Barkers 1960s to 1980s

    Workers at Barkers 1960s to 1980s

    A collection of images brought in to the Earls Barton Museum by ex-employees of Barkers at the Global Footprint community heritage event in September 2012.
  • Raunds March 2005 Commemorative Plaque

    Raunds March 2005 Commemorative Plaque

  • Former Ernest Chambers Heel Factory

    Former Ernest Chambers Heel Factory

    The former Ernest Chambers Heel Factory on Park Road opposite Manor Street. Gold painted ball finials apparently from the tithe barn.  A Wellington Boot once could ...
  • Former Wellington Tannery

    Former Wellington Tannery

  • The rise and fall of the Bozeat Boot Company and its links to 1966 World Cup Legends Sir Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore

    The rise and fall of the Bozeat Boot Company and its links to 1966 World Cup Legends Sir Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore

    After the Second World War, in the late 1940s, Spencer Clarke of Northampton became the owner of both the Drage shoe business and Bozeat Boot ...
  • Gola 2000+

    Gola 2000+

  • W. Botterill & Son and the Gola story

    W. Botterill & Son and the Gola story

    Early beginnings The Company was founded by William Botterill in 1895 to manufacture Boots and Shoes as a Cottage Industry (Pictorial History of Bozeat, 1992).  In ...
  • Bozeat Boot Company & Gola Former Factories

    Bozeat Boot Company & Gola Former Factories

  • Botterills / Gola Football Boots

    Botterills / Gola Football Boots

  • Drage 'Honest John' boot and shoe range 2

    Drage 'Honest John' boot and shoe range 2

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