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Northamptonshire boot and shoe industry

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Reference Number: BB018442
 
The essential character of the late 19th-century industry is encapsulated by this factory of circa 1870 in Victoria Road, Northampton, its modest scale commensurate with the surrounding, largely residential, townscape. The elaborate cast-iron glazing, however, is unsual.

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