INDUSTRIES 



The appended price list of 1764 will be of 

 interest to anyone connected with the shoe 

 trade : — 



any< 



Foot-Gear, Thomas Clark, Mercer's Row, 

 Northampton 



Men's 



d. 



o 

 o 

 6 

 o 



3 

 9 



Bespoke 



s. d. 

 20 



7 

 6 

 6 



+ 9 



o 

 2 



10 

 6 



Best Calf-skin Boots .,..16 



Double Channel Pumps ... 6 



Single Channel Pumps . . 5 



Neat-stitched Heels and Pumps 5 

 Neat flat Shoes and Pumps, 



waxed or black grain ... 4 



Best flat Shoes and turned Pumps 4 

 Strong plain Double or Single 



sole Shoes 4 o 



Women's 



Everlasting and Calimanco . . 3 9 

 Superfine do. lined with Linen 



or Leather Socks .... 43 



Neat and strong Leather Pumps 2 9 



Neat and strong Leather Shoes . 2 6 

 Black Leather Clogs .... — 



Toed Clogs — 3 10 



By the end of the eighteenth century the 

 closing of uppers was becoming a separate 

 branch of the trade. 



In 1799 appears : — 



'Wanted a number of real good hands on men's 

 work — H. W. Brown, Sheaf Street, and Mr. Wilcox, 

 World's End, Daventry. Present wages i8<^. light 

 work ready for the last, I "jd. wax flats.' 



Below we give a list of the names that have 

 been met with connected with the trade during 

 the eighteenth century : 



1727 John Hockliffe, Shoemaker, 'Merold,' North- 

 ampton 

 1733 Arthur Lewis, Last Maker, St. Giles' Street, 



Northampton 

 1741 Francis Greenough, Shoemaker, Market Place, 



Northampton 

 1757 Mr. Evans, Wholesale Shoemaker, Northampton 

 1 762 Richard Rands, Shoemaker, Gold Street, North- 

 ampton 

 1762 John Farren, Shoemaker, Northampton 

 1762 William Hilary, Heelmaker, Northampton 

 1765 John Warner, Shoemaker, Draper)-, North- 

 ampton 

 1765 Wm. Catterns, Lastmaker, Drapery, North- 

 ampton 

 1767 S. Sharman, Jr., Shoemaker, Wellingborough 

 1 769 Peach & Sons, Shoemakers, Horsemarket, North- 

 ampton 



1 77 1 Thos. Lord, Shoemaker, Mercers' Row, North- 



ampton 



1772 John Watlock, Shoemaker, Bearward Street, 



Northampton 



1773 W. Hilary (as above), Lastmaker, Northampton 



know when you are within a mile of Northampton 

 by the smell of leather and the noise of the cobblers' 

 lapstones.' In the early nineteenth centur)' the 

 lapstones were superseded by a flat iron with the 

 handle removed. 



1774 



775 

 775 



776 



776 

 780 

 780 

 780 

 780 



780 



781 

 786 



786 



786 

 788 



788 



789 

 789 

 790 



791 



792 



792 

 792 

 792 



792 

 79^ 



79+ 



796 



796 

 798 



799 

 '799 



John Luck, Shoemaker, Bridge Street, North- 

 ampton 

 E. Bradley, Shoemaker, Wellingborough 

 Jos. Mawby, Shoemaker, St. James' End, 

 Northampton 



B. James, Shoemaker, Horsemarket, North- 

 ampton 



Benjn. Smith, Shoemaker, Thornby 

 Thomas Gotch, Shoemaker, Kettering 

 John Chater, Shoemaker, Cornhill, Kettering 

 Samuel Judkins, Shoemaker, Daventry 

 John Warner, Shoemaker, Draper^-, North- 

 ampton 

 John Brown, Shoemaker, Bridge Street, North- 

 ampton 



— Groom, Shoemaker, Wellingborough 

 Timothy Roberts, Lastmaker, College Lane, 



Northampton 

 William Cartwright, Shoemaker, Abington 



Street, Northampton 

 Peter Dunkley, Shoemaker, Wellingborough 

 John Fowkes, Shoemaker, Drapery, North- 

 ampton 

 Thomas Borton, Shoemaker, Horsemarket, 



Northampton 

 William Moss, Cold Ashby 

 Jos. Pettifer, Shoemaker, Kettering 

 Joseph Essam, Kettering (advertises that he has 

 discovered the art of making shoes, pumps, 

 and channels, without thread, wax, or any 

 kind of stitch) 

 William Smith, Shoemaker, Mayorhold, North- 

 ampton 

 S. Judkins, Shoemaker, Daventry 

 William Davis, Shoemaker, VVellingborough 

 S. Coles, Shoemaker, Raunds 



C. King, Shoemaker, Bridge Street, North- 

 ampton 



J. Hall, Shoemaker, Gold Street, Northampton 



— Car)-, Shoemaker, Sheep Street, Welling- 

 borough 



Wm. Bodgener, Shoemaker, Oundle (his name 

 is included, although it is practically certain 

 that he was a bespoke bootmaker only) 



J. G. Hasell, Shoemaker, Wood Hill, North- 

 ampton 



— Fowks, Bootmaker, Draper)-, Northampton 

 Billingham, Bootmaker, Drapery, Northampton 

 H. W. Brown, Shoemaker, Sheaf Street, 



Daventry 

 Mr. Wilcox, Shoemaker, World's End, Daventry 



Some of these (it is impossible to say which) 

 may have been ' bespoke ' bootmakers, employing 

 two or three hands only, but that many were in 

 a large way of business may be inferred from the 

 number of men they require. In Kettering; it is 

 practically certain that Mr. Gotch was the only 

 * manufacturer.' 



From an exceedingly interesting MS. ' Life of 

 William Hickson,' founder of the firm of William 

 Hickson & Sons (kindly lent to the writer by 

 Alderman Hickson of Northampton, the present 

 head of the firm), and which has not before been 

 printed, some valuable information as to the 

 condition of the shoe trade in the first years of 

 the nineteenth century is obtainable. The life 



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