January 1981
Advertisement:
The Shoe Tree, Market Place, Warminster.
Telephone 213587.
Family footwear retailers.
Clarks and Start-Rite fitting specialists.
Agents for Levi’s For Feet, Clarks, ‘K’, Rally, Nil Sim-i-le, Van-Dal, Portland and Italian Fashion.
Good quality men’s leather shoes.
Trainers for all the family.
Members of the Children’s Foot Health Register and I.F.R.A. (Independent Footwear Retailers’ Association).
Tuesday 1st October 1968
Arthur Beaven
57 Market Place, Warminster, Wiltshire.
Specialists in Clarks and K Shoes.
Main fitting centre for Clarks childrens shoes.
Also agent for K, Clarks, Van-Dal, Barkers Ladies Shoes,
Grenson, K, and Clarks Mens.
Telephone Warminster 3504.
Tuesday 1st October 1968
Frisby’s
for shoes, hosiery, handbags and gloves.
Shoe repairs.
Market Place, Warminster.
Photograph showing the boot which hung
outside Dodge’s shoe shop at
no.6 George Street, Warminster.
This was a familiar sight for many years.
This photograph was taken on 10th March 1950.
Walter Henry Dodge died on
Wednesday 11th February 1953,
after being connected with the business
(which he had inherited from his father)
for over 50 years.
Boot and shoe factors in Warminster in 1938:
Miss Beaven, 5 Silver Street, Warminster.
A.S.H. Christopher, 6 Deverill Road, Warminster.
Co-operative Society, 32 Market Place, Warminster.
W.H. Dodge, 6 George Street, Warminster.
Frisbys Ltd., (M.E. Sane, manager), 40 Market Place, Warminster.
Mills & Son, 28 and 29 East Street, Warminster.
From The Warminster & District Directory And Local & Village Guide For 1922:
Boot and Shoe Factors –
Alfred Beaven, 5 Silver Street, Warminster.
Co-operative Society, 32 Market Place, Warminster.
Walter Henry Dodge, 6 George Street, Warminster.
Frisbys Ltd. (M.E. Sane, manager), 40 Market Place, Warminster.
Mills & Son, 28 and 29 East Street, Warminster.
The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document:
Boot and shoe dealer’s daybook. Possibly Hubert Dodge of 6 George Street, Warminster. 1897-1908. Reference 2102/1.
