Lotus Ltd. Reunion Dinner, Stone

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Date:1960 - 1961 (c.)

Description:A reunion dinner organised for Lotus Ltd. staff, past and present, held at the Lotus Club, Stone.

Amongst the people seated at the tables are: Clare Baker, Eva Reading, Mabel and Olive Duddridge, Emmy Raworth, Lily Lakin and Florrie Moore.

Lotus was formerly Edwin Bostock's shoe factory, which was on Foregate Street, Stafford. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1901, but was rebuilt on Sandon Road in 1903.

Bostock's became Lotus Ltd. in 1919. The Sandon Road factory was demolished in 1998.

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Shoe Making Parties Manufacturing Celebrations, Events & Disasters

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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire Museum Service

Donor ref:P2006.016.0004 (37/21311)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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