Swan Pageant Float, Lotus Shoes, Stafford

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Date:1925

Description:Decorated float entered by employees from Lotus Ltd.’s Tracing Department in the annual Trades and Friendly Societies' Pageant. The float was designed by Walter Adams, standing second from the right, who was a shoe machinery engineer at Lotus.

The procession through Stafford ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was awarded to the best decorated entries and along the route collections were made for Stafford General Infirmary.

Lotus entered between ten and fifteen floats each year and judged their own entries prior to entering the pageant.


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1890s
Portrait of Frederick Bostock, Stafford,
Portrait of Frederick Bostock, Stafford,

1910s
Football Club, Bostock's Shoe Works, Stafford,
Football Club, Bostock's Shoe Works, Stafford,

Edwin Bostock's shoe factory was originally in Foregate Street, Stafford, but was ...

1930s
Female Employees Modelling Shoes, Lotus, Stafford
Female Employees Modelling Shoes, Lotus, Stafford

Women modelling London shoes manufactured by Lotus. Standing first from left is ...

1980s
Lotus Shoe Factory Interior, Stafford
Lotus Shoe Factory Interior, Stafford

Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by ...

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Donor ref:SAMS Acc. No., P2000.1.6, img: 1477 (18/1931)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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