Freeman Hardy and Willis
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Freeman Hardy and Willis
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 21 Aug 2011
Founded in 1875, Freeman Hardy and Willis was a big name in more ways than one in the shoe business until the chain was sold to a dodgy operator who crashed the business in the mid 1990's, it says here :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman,_Hardy_and_Willis This little premises with its fine frontage and real old zig zag factory roof is in Orchard Street.
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