Date:1950 - 1960 (c.)
Description:Main entrance and office block seen from Freeman Street. 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. Edwin Bostock's original Stafford factory was on Foregate Street. The building was destroyed by fire in 1901, but was rebuilt on Sandon Road in 1903. In 1919 the three factories amalgamated to become Lotus. The Sandon Road factory was demolished in 1998.
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Main offices of Lotus, on the corner of Sandon Road and Freeman Street. The main gates on Freeman Street ...
Main entrance and office block seen from Freeman Street. Lotus was originally named Bostock's and ...
The offices of Lotus on the corner of Sandon Road and Freeman Street. The main gates can be seen to ...
Main gates on Freeman Street, with the new factory in the centre. Lotus was originally named Bostock's ...
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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire County Records Office
Donor ref:County Record Office No., 5593/47/15, img: 577 (18/1111)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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