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Clarks: Made to Last

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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

 

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