Barwell's Shoe Industry

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Barwell's Shoe Industry by Chris Wilson as part of the Geograph project.

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Barwell's Shoe Industry

Image: © Chris Wilson Taken: 15 Jul 2005

This picture shows the old George Ward factory in Kingsfield Road. Once full of activity now like most other shoe factories in the village boarded up and silent.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

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Latitude
52.569715
Longitude
-1.341919