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Mansfield Shoe Company

Signing of a contract - 1981
By Pauline Marples

For many years Mansfield Shoe Company was a well established industry in the centre of Mansfield, providing jobs for people in the locality and shoes for the wider population. All that has now gone, the firm closed in ? (can anyone supply the date?), and the building has been demolished. Today [2011] all that remains are memories and photographs such as the ones below taken by a Chad photographer of the signing of a contract in October 1981. It was obviously an important occasion judged by the dignitaries and people present - does anyone recall it?

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Photo: Illustrative image for the 'Mansfield Shoe Company' page
Photo: Illustrative image for the 'Mansfield Shoe Company' page
Photo: Illustrative image for the 'Mansfield Shoe Company' page
Photo: Illustrative image for the 'Mansfield Shoe Company' page
This page was added on 29/08/2011.

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The old company Norvic, went bust in 1981 and the Mansfield factory faced closure but there was a managment 'buy out' helped by many of the workers chipping-in with their redundancy money.

By Berisford Jones
On 31/08/2011

Currently revisiting my boyhood stamping ground - can't believe the changes in Mansfield since I moved away in 1963 ! Regarding the shoe factory - was it just out of Stockwell Gate where I would have caught the Trent 100 bus back to South Normanton ? I recall a pair of semi-detached shops just round the corner heading to Nottingham Road [where I used to go to visit Exchange and Mart for Hornby Dublo] - one a butcher the other a jeweller - the butcher was called Silver and the jeweller Lamb or Bull - can anyone confirm ?

By David Wilkinson
On 17/09/2011

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