Description:The closing room decorated to celebrate victory at the end of the First World War.
The Lotus factory on Longton Road manufactured ladies' shoes. The cutting room was where the various shapes required to make up a shoe were cut from sheets of leather.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their own factories in Stafford, Stone and Northampton. The original Stone factory can still be seen behind Granville Terrace.
In 1919 the three factories amalgamated to become Lotus.
Lotus remained in Stone until the 1970s. The building was purchased by G.E.C. Meters.