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Wellington Road approaching Bilston, Wolverhampton
This is the A41, looking south-east towards Bilston town centre. Off to the right is the former Samuel Edge and Son shoe factory.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Bus on Wellington Road, Bilston, Wolverhampton
The image shows the A41, looking towards Bilston town centre.
There was me thinking I'd get a good picture of the local bus. No such luck; not in service. Never mind. It's a Dennis (Plaxton) Dart bus. Over eleven thousand were made from 1989 to 2008. Y392HKE has had a respray! See it in service in Dudley and Walsall here: http://wmbusphotos.com/Midland/2392.html and also in Bromley in 2005 http://londonbusesbyadam.zenfolio.com/p600212766/h1FBB9E13#h1fbb9e13
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Wellington Road approaching Bilston, Wolverhampton
This is the A41. On the right is the main entrance to the former Samuel Edge and Son shoe factory, built in 1914. The current operation retains the name of Edge, but is not family owned. It deals with imports from the far east (mainly) and is run by a wholesaler and on-line retailer formed in 1995, who took over this site after 2002.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Taylors Garage
A Garage on Wellington Road.
Image: © Gordon Griffiths
Taken: 7 Oct 2008
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Shoe Factory
The view in Wellington Road, the red-brick frontage is the former Samuel Edge and Son Shoe Factory built in 1914.
Image: © Gordon Griffiths
Taken: 5 May 2016
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Former shoe factory in Bilston, Wolverhampton
In Wellington Road, the red-brick building is the Samuel Edge Boot and Shoe Factory built c1914, and then extended later to the right. The current operation retains the name of Edge, but is not family owned. It deals with imports from the far east (mainly) and is owned by a wholesaler and on-line retailer formed in 1995, who took over this site after 2002.
The plane trees by the A41 Wellington Road between Wolverhampton and Bilston have only a year or two of branch growth since being cut back.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Former shoe factory in Bilston, Wolverhampton
In Wellington Road, the red-brick frontage is the former Samuel Edge* and Son Shoe Factory, built c1914 when his Millfield Road premises became too small, and then extended later to the right. The current operation retains the name of Edge, but is not family owned. It deals with imports from the far east (mainly) and is owned by a wholesaler and on-line retailer formed in 1995, who took over this site after 2002.
* born 1861
The full story: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/edges/edges01.htm
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Edge Shoes (Forward Works), Wellington Road
Close-up of the main entrance. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2813043
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Edge Shoes (Forward Works), Wellington Road
Factory extension of 1914 in brick and buff terracotta. Remarkably, the firm is still trading, although now simply as a wholesale distributor and not as a manufacturer.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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Forward Shoe Works
Fine detailing in buff terracotta above the main entrance http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2813032 still showing the original name of the works.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 14 Feb 2012
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