Goliath Footwear Jun 1880- 2 Jun 1989

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Heckmondwike Boot and Shoe Works Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire 1880-

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Goliath Footwear Ltd Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire

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Hargreaves Caroline fl 1970

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Smith, Linda, 1949-2007

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Co-operative Wholesale Society

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The Co-operative Wholesale Society began cabinet making in 1893. The Birmingham factories, which opened in the 1920s, were equipped with large, well-fitted workshops. They produced for the regional supply of furnishing needs. The Cabinet Factory, Hay Mills and the Bedstead Factory, Belmont Row were also used for the production of pianos. The C.W.S encouraged piano buying, with good pianos at moderate prices. The work was transferred to Belmont Row from the Cabinet Factory and then r...

Barraclough Colin fl 1989

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Canada Army Royal Winnipeg Rifles of Canada

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Gilmore, Alec.

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Footwear, Goliath

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Goliath Footwear was founded in 1880 by the Co-operative Wholesale Society under the name of the Heckmondwike Boot and Shoe Works. The factory was based in Heckmondwike in West Yorkshire and was the second Co-operative Wholesale Society shoe factory to be founded, after the Leicester factory on Duns Lane. The Heckmondwike Boot and Shoe Works was designed to manufacture hard wearing work boots. Initially the premises were rented on Beck Lane, but in 1884 the factory moved to the purc...