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Histories of Northamptonshire

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  • Leather escape boot made by Haynes and Cann © NMAG

    Escape Boot

    Escape boot designed for RAF pilots by local manufacturers Haynes and Cann in 1943. Northamptonshire has a long history of making military footwear.

    1943 Modern

  • Large painted wood and lead boot advertsing Cottons, boot and shoe manufacturers and retailsers in Oundle. © NMAG

    Advertising Boot

    Large advertising boot for Cottons, a family run boot and shoe business located in Oundle from 1877 to the 21st century.

    Victorian 1877 Modern

  • Over the knee, high heeled boots made as props for the 2005 film Kinky Boots © NMAG

    Kinky Boots

    Boots made for the film Kinky Boots - telling the story of entrepeneurialism in the county's shoe manufacturing industry in the late 1990s.

    2005 Modern

  • Leather hobnailed workman's or drayman's boots © NMAG

    Drayman's Boots

    Hardwearing boots worn by the "kings of the road", labourers transporting goods by horse-drawn wagon for the railway companies between the wars.

    1915-52 Modern

  • Shoemaker's wood and leather work bench © NMAG

    Shoemaker's Bench

    This shoemaker's bench is evidence of the shoemaking trade before mechanisation aand factory manufacture when solitary shoemakers mostly worked in small workshops in their home.

    Victorian 1860 - 90 Modern