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The Bostock family brought 'Lotus Shoes' to Stafford. Thomas Bostock was the founder of the Bostock/Lotus Shoe manufacturing dynasty. He was the son of a Derbyshire Cordwainer and was apprenticed to his father as a shoemaker.
By 1820 he was making boots and shoes in Gaolgate Street and by 1834 he employed 200 men.
His son Edwin took over the business in 1837.
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Boot and shoe making in Staffordshire
http://staffscc.net/shoes1/?p=29
http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/search/default_hndlr.asp