Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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of Midland Road, Higham Ferrers, Northants (1989)
1990 UK Shoe Group Ltd sold the business — based in Rushden and Corby — to a new company being set up, to be known as John White Footwear[1]
The company suffered falling orders and a closure was announced in November, 1990, although a plant in Warwickshire was saved following a takeover by a subsidiary of Wollaston company, R. Griggs and Co.[2]
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