by Mark Palmer
Fiennes, Rosalie 259
Fifth Monarchist uprising (1661) 23
F.I.I. 314
Financial Times 220, 244, 278–9, 327, 329, 342
‘Finder Board’ 177
Finland 118
Fireman, Paul 247
‘First Shoes’ 5, 179, 291, 358
First World War 114, 119, 123, 124, 126
Fisher, Colin 292, 312
Florence and the Machine col. pl. 14
Florsheim 245
flotation issue 244, 295, 300, 304–5, 317–18, 322–3, 326, 329–30, 343–4, 345
‘Flotilla’ range 218
‘The City to the Sea’ sales slogan col. pl. 9
Flotilla Shoes Ltd 274
Follow the Sun (review) 151–2
Foot, Michael 217
footgauge 5, 45, 176–9, 178, 327
col. pls. 8, 11, 16
footgauge
How to Use Clarks Footgauge manual 177–9
Junior Gauge 358
Toddler Gauge 358
Footwear News 340
Fortress Shoe Company (renamed Curtess) 197
Fosse Way 9
Foster, Joseph 247
Fox, George 2, 10, 22, 53
Peace Testimony 23, 156
Fox, John 146
Fox Brothers of Wellington 132
France 98, 144, 297
burgeoning shoe manufacturing business 33
export of cheap shoes to Britain 94–5
Clarks’ sales in 118
France Arno 244, 295
franchise stores 359
free market capitalism 133
Free Product Movement 33
Freeman, Hardy & Willis 195, 196–7, 198, 211–12, 276, 307, 342
‘French shoes’ 99
Friends Charity Farm, Street 11–12
Friends’ Meeting House, Street 9, 22, 25, 130
Frith, John 229, 242, 269
From Russia With Love (film) 216–17
Fry, Elizabeth 26
Fry, Joseph 26
Fry, Lewis 74, 76
Fry, Richard 74, 76
Frys 4, 24, 57, 220, 320
Funck, Herbert 246
Furness Shipbuilding Company Ltd 215
Future Group 352
Gainsborough Studios 181
Gallagher, Liam 5, 187
Gallagher, Noel col. pl. 14
‘Gang of Four’ 308, 317, 317
Garbo, Greta 137
Garner, David 49–50
Garrard & Co. Ltd 215
Gaspargas, Anteiro 298
Gatwick Boots 153
Gay, Les 322
G. B. Britton & Sons 217–18
General Election (1832) 27–8
General Foods 252
General Strike (1926) 133
‘Gentleman’s Osborne’ boot 82
‘Gentleman’s Prince of Wales’ shoe 82
Gentlemen’s Pump Boots 41
Germany 98, 118, 250, 291, 347
Ghana 230
Gibson, Gavin 97
Gibson, George Stacey 74
Gifford, Cyril 241
Gilbert and Sullivan 104
Gillett, Antony Walter 135
Gillett, Dr Henry 107, 131
Gillett, Jan 331
Gillett, Lucy (née Bancroft) 107
Gillett, Margaret Clark 108, 110, 126–7
Gillett, Martha 63
Gillett family 13
Gillibrand, Neville 248, 283, 293, 294, 338
Glancey, Jonathan 340–41
Glasgow 32, 230
Glastonbury, Somerset 10, 27–8, 29, 90, 91
Clark factory 171
Town Hall 308, 311–12
Glastonbury railway station 115, 121, 224
Glastonbury Tor, Somerset
one-time brand image of Clarks 3, 99
col. pls. 2, 4
image used for Clark sport shoes 3
Glastonbury-to-Highbridge canal 13
Glastonbury Abbey 7, 8, 9
Glastonbury Festival 320
col. pl. 14
Glen, Kitty (later Mrs John Powell) 153
Glitter, Gary 246, 324
global financial crisis 349, 350
Gloucester 10
Gloucestershire 31
gloves 2, 14, 15, 27, 61
Gluv 266
Glynn, Prudence 234–5
Gola 112
‘Golf Ace’ 247
‘Golfer’ 247
goloshes 2, 41, 44–5, 45
Goodyear, Charles 45–6
Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company, The 46
Gordon, Grant 359
Gould, Caroline (née Robertson) 286, 300, 304–5, 308, 312, 316, 343, 354
Grand Metropolitan 349
Grange, the, Street 239
Graves, A. W. (Bill) 168, 180, 203, 205, 241, 242
Graves, Leslie 165, 168, 203
Gray, Dolores 153
Great Depression 133
Great Exhibition (1851) 41–2, 44, 45–6, 79
Greece 297
Green, Felicity 219–20
Greenbank, Street, Somerset 79, 79, 106, 128
Greenbank Pool, Street 3, 127, 128
Greenwood & Batley 69, 71, 85
Gregory, Bishop 54
Greinton, Somerset 10, 11, 40
Grey, Lord 27
Grimoldi company 174
Grisewood, Freddie 217
Gross, Eric 224, 229, 242, 269
Grosvenor Estate 315
Grove factory, Street 171, 193, 231, 330
G. T. Harrison Shoes Ltd 203
Gucci 262
Gulf & Western 245
Gurgaon, near Delhi 352
gutta percha 44–5
Gynt, Greta col. pl. 6
Haines, Mary Ann 48
Halfway House Bridgwater 281
Hall, Allan 237
Hall, Harriet (née Clark) 286, 300, 316, 320, 325, 326, 330–31, 331, 332, 343, 359–60
Halliday, Arthur 166–7, 175, 203, 208, 229
Halliday family 280
Hampshire 31
Hanger and Chattaway 96, 97
Hanover, Pennsylvania 245
Hanover Shoe Company 244–5, 250, 280, 281, 339
Hanson Trust 275, 281
Happy Shoe Company, The 230
Hardware range 291
Hardy, Thomas 103
Harris, Paul 299
Harrison, Foster 229, 242
Harrison, Thomas 188
Harrods 212, 333
opens children’s shoe department run by Clarks 302
Hart, Reginald C. (Reggie) 203
education 142
works in a rubber company 142–3
in charge of Walwyns 142
first managing director of Peter Lord Ltd 142, 143, 224
C. & J. Clark Retailing Ltd 208–9
retirement 224
Harvard Business School 259, 289, 335, 336, 346
Harvey, Bernard 244
Harvey-Jones, Sir John 332
Hawkes, David 282, 293
Heage, Derbyshire 111
Healey, Denis 243, 335
Healey & Baker 195
Health for All 151
Heath, Edward 244, 249
Heeley, David 236, 249, 259, 319
heels
building and attaching heels 49, 70
stacked 246
stiletto 253
Henry VIII, King 8
Hermes 330
Hiet, Robert 8
High Street, Street, Somerset 3, 28, 51, 82, 112, 208
Hill, James 173
Hillcox, David 319
Hiller, Wendy col. pl. 6
Hinde, John 153; col. pls. 6, 7
Hinde, Karl 115, 157
Hinde, Wilfrid George 141, 153; col. pl. 6
costings at Clarks 114, 115
visits shoe factories in America 114
and factory systems 114, 115
introduces ‘standard lines’ 115
and adverti
sing 115
conscientious objector 115–16
appointed a director (1928) 116
stands down 167, 184
and sales in Holland 187
Hindhayes, Street 12, 12
Hindhayes Infants School, Street 141
Hitchcock, Alfred 181
Hitler, Adolf 156
Hobson & Grey 252, 253
Hodges, Horatio 86–8
Hodgson, Sir Maurice 314
Holcombe Brook, Lancashire 247
Holder, Noddy 246
Holiday, Billie 216
Holland 98, 118, 182, 187–8, 250
Holmes, Angela 302
Holmes, James 55–6, 64
Holt, Geoffrey 283
Home Counties 230
Hong Kong 232, 297, 308, 345, 350
Hooper, John 28
Hotel D’Angleterre, Copenhagen, Denmark 182
Houlton, Richard 359
Houndwood site, Street 224, 232, 354
House of Commons 33–4, 79
House of Fraser 221
Howard-Spink, Geoff 257–8
Howcroft, Paul 292–3
Howcroft, Sarah 292
Howe, Elias 48
Howlett & White 177
HTV 278
Hudson, Hugh 253
Hudson, Kenneth: Towards Precision Shoemaking 88, 132, 145–6, 211
Hulanicki, Barbara 246
Hull, east Yorkshire 89
Humanic Shoe Company, Graz, Austria 226, 276
Hungary 98, 297
‘hungry forties’ 34
Hungry Hill (film) col. pl. 7
Hunt, Walter 48
Huntley, Joseph 65
Huntley, Thomas 65
Huntley & Palmer 24, 65
Huntley, Bourne & Stevens 24
Hush Puppies 230
Hygienic range 99, 176; col. pl. 2
I Know Where I’m Going (film) col. pl. 6
Ibsen, Henrik 104
Iceland 187
ichthyosaur emblem 8
ICI 314
‘Igloo’ boots 201
Ilchester Gaol, Somerset 10
Ilminster, Somerset 171, 231, 250, 343
In Business (radio programme) 332
Independent 340
India 4, 118, 184, 187, 188, 334, 352, 353
Indigo range 347
Industrial Revolution 25
Ine of Wessex, King 7
Infantino, Bob 339, 340, 351
‘Infants Play-ups Sandals’ (known as ‘Play-ups’) 168
inflation 243, 265, 285
Institute for Family Business 1, 265–6, 359
institutional leases 276
instore displays col. pl. 15
International Labour Organization 353
International Monetary Fund 243
Investors in Industry Group plc (3i) 287
Invoice Recording Book 31
IRA 241
Ireland
footwear supplies to Plantations 18
shoe and rug sales in 31, 95
Irish famine 31, 34
William’s lack of success in 95–7
Halliday’s 1663
Clarks Ireland Ltd formed 166
importance of the Irish market 166–7
Nathan Clark works in 175
manufacture of Clarks’ shoes for men 218
factory makes cheap, unbranded women’s fashion shoes 233
closure of Clarks’ factories in 4
Iron Curtain 282
Isca factory, Exmouth 296
Italy 221, 232, 297
ITN 308, 318
ITV 216, 217
J. & S. Allen 96
J. Edwards & Company, Philadelphia 114
J. Sears 197
Jack Nano ‘Magic Steps’ shoes col. pl. 12
Jacobs & Co 24
Jacobson Group 112
Jamaica 232, 357
James II, King 10
James Baker 274
Jameson, Conrad 258
Jamieson, Frank 142
Japan 350
Java 118
Jeffreys, Judge 10
Jenkins, Roy 246
Jenkins, Victor 248
‘Jersey Sandal’ 147
‘Jetter’ 247
Jimmy Godfrey’s Cider House, Street (later Bear Coffee House, then Bear Inn) 91
‘Jogger’ 247
John, Elton 246
John Collier 375
John Farmer 274, 275
John Halliday & Son 166, 189, 229
John Lewis 143
John Southworth 142
John White 266
Johnson, Boris 345
Johnson, Priscilla (née Clark) 149, 250
Johnston, William 242, 249, 250, 267, 269, 281, 287, 331, 343, 349
Jones & Higgins 117
Jordan, Michael 247
Joseph, (Sir) Keith 214–15
Joseph of Arimathea 7
Joseph Bancroft & Sons 105
‘Joyance Sandal’ 146–7
J. T. Butlin & Sons Ltd 217, 218
J. W. Foster & Sons 247
K Shoes 142, 166, 177, 209, 243, 266–70, 269, 274, 276, 281, 282, 283, 292, 293, 294, 295, 298, 299, 305, 307, 312, 323, 327, 328, 333, 343
K Shoes Ltd 282
K Women’s shoe range 232
Kalcher, Karl 291–2
Kartel, Vybz 5, 187, 357
Kauffer, Edward McKnight 151, 152, 357; col. pl. 2
Kayser-Roth Corporation 245
Kea, St 7
Keats, John 49, 68–9, 85, 110, 111
Keats, William 85
Kendal, Cumbria 19, 243, 270, 298, 299, 307, 323, 328, 329, 333, 343
Kennet Square, Pennsylvania 284
Kensington High Street, London 143
Kenwood 335
Kilkenny, Ireland 204
King, Philip
Diamond 241
Steps 241
King’s College, Cambridge 210, 228
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey 259, 351
Kingweston, Somerset 73
Kiss 246
Kleinwort Benson 267
Knapp 348
Knowle, Bristol 276
Koehler, Mela 137; col. pls. 3, 4
Korea 250, 297, 350
KPMG 287, 324
Kurt Geiger 333
Kwik-Fit 345
Kynaston, David: Austerity Britain, 1945–51 163–4
Labour government 163, 225, 244
Ladies’ Best French Morocco shoes 41
‘ladies’ high-heeled shoes’, the first (1877 price list) 99
Lady Vanishes, The (film) 181
‘Lady’s calf kid Balmoral’ boot 95
‘Lady’s cream brocade side-laced’ boot 82
‘Lady’s Lorne Lace’ boot 82
‘Lady’s Morocco Oxford Lace’ shoe 95
‘Lady’s patent calf Langtry tie shoe’ 95
‘Lady’s side-spring’ boot 82
Laing, Andrew 314
Land Star Inc. 285
Lane & Robinson 141
Lantokay (later Street) 7
Larkhill Rubber Company Ltd 174, 209, 211
last-making machines 49–50
lasts
virtual 5
universal 18
individual 18, 59
American 155, 164, 165
Mayflower factory 172–3
Laura Ashley 293, 328
Law, Joseph 104, 118
Le Touquet sandal col. pl. 11
‘Leap Training’ 358
leather
price of 44, 61, 136, 172, 226
rationing 155
replaced by other materials 5, 155
Legal & General 196
Lehane, Brendan: C. & J. Clark: 1825–1975 30–31
Leicester 19, 119, 198
Leicestershire 49
Leigh Road, Street, Somerset 90
Leighton Park, Reading, Berkshire 114
Lennards 213
Leslie, Charles: The Snake in the Gras
s; or Satan Transformed into an Angel of Light 23–4
Lever Brothers 24
Levi 501s 290
Levi Strauss 251, 252
Levi Strauss and Co. 250
‘Levi’s for feet’ 250–51, 252, 276
Levison, Harry 196, 197, 215–16, 239
Lewis, Eileen 164
Lewis’s, Manchester 143
Li Ka-Shing 308
Lidbetter, James 207
Light, Larry 307
Lilley & Skinner 177, 197, 276
Limbers 159
Limerick 31, 95
Lister, Moira 174
Little, Adrian 331
Little Dragon 357
Little John 357
Littleboy, Richard Wallis 116
Liverpool 32
Liverpool Polytechnic 248
Livesey, Joseph 35
Lloyds Bank 4, 320
Local Board 50, 88, 119–20
lockstitch 48
Lockwood, Julia (Toots) 181, 181; col. pl. 7
Lockwood, Margaret 153, 181–2, 181, 182; col. pl. 7
Lockyer, David 275, 306
logo 150–51, 255, 289, 343
London 13, 31, 230, 274
sweatshops 19, 30, 134
Clarks’ surplus stock of goloshes 44
shops selling Clarks’ footwear 57
Clarks’ office in 74, 141, 242
Clarks’ links with the West End 108–9
as a sales territory 116–17
showroom in Shaftesbury Avenue 117
rival shoemakers in 134, 135
London International Exhibition (1862) 69, 82
London Lane Ltd 213, 233
London Olympics (2012) col. pl. 13
London School of Economics 126
London Shoe Week 239
London Underground 151, 181
London Underground Electric Railways 151
London University (Birkbeck) 326
London Weekend Television 246
Long Sutton, Somerset 65, 83, 190
Lord & Farmer 295, 300
Lotus 142
Lotus Ltd 112, 160, 166, 177, 209
Louise and the Pins 357
Lovell, Benjamin 316, 331, 343
Lovell, Percy 104, 107
Quaker Inheritance, 1871–1961 103
Lowe, Frank 258
Lowe Howard-Spink 258
Lower Leigh, Somerset 12
Lugton, Thomas 108
Lupton, James 319
Luxembourg 187
Lyle, Sandy 278
McAfee, A. 109, 110
McCaul Knitwear 216
McConnell, John 255
Macdonald, Ramsay 122–3
McGarvie, Michael: Bowlingreen Mill 51, 150
McGill University, Montreal 307
Mackay, Alan 282, 306, 339
McKinsey & Co. 223–5, 225, 295, 307–8, 310
McLaren, Priscilla Bright 105
McMenemy, Mark 339
McWatters, George 266
‘Mae West’ lifejackets 155
‘Magic Steps’ shoes 291; col. pl. 12
Maidment, Charles 103
mail order 217, 224
Mail on Sunday 320, 333
Majorca Villa range 356
makers 29, 30
Malawi 232
management consultants 222–5, 232–4, 243, 303, 307–8
Manchester 17
Manfield 110, 197, 211–12, 276, 342