Description:A view of the former Keats & Bexon factory on Corporation Street, now occupied by Travis Perkins building supplies. The original factory frontage (painted white) has since been demolished. The tower of St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Sandon Road can be seen in the background.
John and William Keats set up a company manufacturing shoe making machinery on Gaol Road in the 1870s as Keats Bros. & Co. From about 1890 they were operating from the Albion Works on Marston Road. In 1904 the company was renamed Keats & Bexon. In 1916 the company moved to this site on Corporation Street, before closing in 1967.