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Looking for a source of these shoe shops about 1910.
My source refers to such a shop at 'No. 113' (but no street name)
This is a tough one!
David

Have you tried googling for the name :-)

Shirley
Yes of course. In all manners possible! Also Newspapers.
David

Where? Have you contacted the local archives/Local Studies centers?

They may have Trade Directories for the presumed location. Some Kelly's Directories are on-line.

One newspaper ad I found says 295 High Street Stonebow ?

or Union Hall Buildings Foregate Street Chester or 161 High Street Connah's Quay

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Trades/Boot_shoe_makers_of_Yorkshire.txt

SALTER Salter & 11, Parliament Street YORK 1897

also mentioned in Bolton 1910

http://www.thepotteries.org/advert_wk/095.htm


in 1897 the business was Scales and Salter - by 1907 it was named Salter and Salter

various snippets in Yorkshire post and Leeds intelligencer 1909 ( found on FMP)


"Salter and Salter Much the same results as in the previous year have been secured by the old-established boot and shoe manufacturing business Salter and Salter (1900) Ltd.. of Pudsey, near Leeds, for the twelve months ended June 30. While the trading..."

Mr Joseph Huggan was the director in 1907 , annual general meeting Pudsey.

"Dating back to 1898, the Robert Salter Almshouses were established by Pudsey boot and shoe manufacturer Robert Salter. Thanks to his bequest over a century ago, and a further bequest by his granddaughter in 1960, seven almshouses now provide homes to people over 65 in Pudsey near Leeds."

and this from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-YKS-LEEDS/2004-03/1080252058

"SALTER & SALTER

This business was founded ninety years ago at Pudsey by Robert SALTER.
The firm was, until 1885, known as Scales & Salter, and afterwards
carried on at Allan Brigg Mill, on the Bramley-Pudsey boundary, by
Joseph Salter, under the title of Salter & Salter. Joseph Salter died
in 1897, since when the firm has been carried on by a Company.

Messrs. Salter & Salter, Ltd., were tanners, curriers, and boot
manufacturers, the premises being one of the leading shoe manufactories
in the North of England. Thousands of pairs of boots and shoes of every
description were made and afterwards stored in the large shoe warehouse.

The firm had also a large retail connection, having a chain of shops, 64
in number, throughout the North of England and the Midlands.

In 1903 Messrs. Blakey & Glover occupied the section of the building
devoted to the leather industry, and made uppers for heavy boots until
the year 1923.

Messrs. Salter & Salter no longer make boots and shoes, the firm being
factors at the present time, but 20 branch shops are still retained."

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/
Letters_to_the_Young_on_Progress_in_Pudsey_During_the_Last_
1000238403/109

re Scales and Salter

http://www.oldilkeston.co.uk/leeds-house/

"Into the premises in March 1866 moved Scales and Salter, boot and shoe stores, a firm which was already established in Leeds, Liverpool and Derby."

can you not guess at the town based on where or what your informant was talking about?

SALTER & SALTER, boot and
shoe makers, 20 Bolton street; Bury

Eckington Salter & Salter, boot makers (John G. Limb, manager)

1896 - 1901 Salter & Salter Boots and Shoes Stockton 128 High street

one in Chesterfield : http://www.diomedia.com/stock-photo-chesterfield-scales-salter-high-street-1896-image8456597.html

Also a ref to their shops here

"Had worked for Messrs. Salter and Salter, boot and shoe makers from the age of 14, eventually becoming their manager in Bradford before returning to King's Lynn, via Wisbech, to manage their store on the High Street."

Downham market Norfolk Salter & Salter (1900) Ltd. boot & shoe dlrs. High st

RAMBLING ROSE
Tell me more.................!
I have SOLVED it. The shop was at 113 High Street, King's Lynn
David

That's good David :-D