Description:Pictured shortly before the company's closure in 1967 are two long-serving employees at the Corporation Street factory. Jack Matthews, fitter (left) joined the firm in 1911. George Bowyer, sheet metal worker, started in 1913.
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.
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.
This photograph was published in the Staffordshire Newsletter on Friday 24 February 1967. Reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who retain copyright.