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Luton Hat Trail 2 - High Town-Old Bedford Road, a pamphlet on the hat trade and buildings connected with it produced by Luton Borough Council Planning & Development Department with following buildings [an asterisk indicates an image]: Artezium, 65-67 Bute Street (formerly James Egleton Limited hat factory); Midland Road Railway Station and Station House; I.Llewellyn & Company, hat factory, 98-100 Midland Road; corner of Midland Road*, formerly hat factory of Paul Walser; Marida Hats, 1-5 Dudley Street; 2-4 Dudley Street (former hat factory, later Domestic Appliance Centre); 29 Albion Road, Walter Wright's hat factory; Abacus House, Dudley Street; Rotatrim, 41-43 Dudley Street* (former hat factory); 65-67 Dudley Street, A1 Boxes (former hat factory);building at Coupees Path, former hat factory of Richard Burley*; Chiltern House, corner of Old Bedford Road and Midland Road* (former hat factory); Genevieve Louis Limited, Old Bedford Road (modern hat factory); Territorial Drill Hall, Old Bedford Road; English Rose (previously Rabbit, then Wabbit), corner Old Bedford Road and North Street; North Street Seventh Day Adventist Church (former Wesleyan Chapel); Kerrie Hats, Mussons Path (modern hat factory); Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (former dining hall of Old Bedford Road School); Randall Ribbons, 12 Frederick Street (hat ribbon manufacturer); 62 Frederick Street (former W.S.Hooker Hat Manufacturers); former Marshall, Brookes & Chalkley printers* (later Dickinson & Adams motor engineers), Frederick Street; Peter Evans Studios, Frederick Street; Frederick Street Passage; Ken Peirson & Sons, 86 Old Bedford Road (modern hat factory); R.B.Parsons, 28 Reginald Street (modern hat factory); Kinghamway; Olney & Company, 106 Old Bedford Road* (modern hat factory, formerly Leslie Jones hat factory); former Lye's dying and bleaching works, Old Bedford Road; The Old Hat Factory, Clarendon Road (residential flats); 1-10 Clarendon Road (former hat factories); K.R.Snoxell & Sons, 22 Clarendon Street (modern hat factory); A.Russell, 30 Clarendon Street (modern hat factory); Contract & Design hats, 34 Clarendon Street; J.Worboys (modern hat factory), 52 Clarendon Street; Newhnam & Vincenzi Packaging, Frederick Street; Barford Brothers, North Street* (hat dyeing factory); W.Fischer & Sons, corner of Mussons Path and William Street (modern hat materials merchants); former Children's Sick & Convalescent Home (later Home Laundry), corner of Havelock Road and North Street; Roland Allen & Company, catering equipment centre, Havelock Road (formerly Norton House School, alias Norton College, then Herman Homan cardboard box factory, then hat factory, then Battersby & Company);St.Matthew's Church; Painters Arms*; Freeholder, High Town Road; W.Wright & Son Limited, 140 High Town Road (modern hat factory); Sewing Machine Services, York Street; former A.E.Olney hat factory, 37-43 York Street; Boon & Lane (modern hat block makers), 7-11 Taylor Street; Peter Bettley Hats Limited, corner of Brunswick Street and Hitchin Road (modern hat factory); Methodist Church* and Church Hall*, High Town Road; Kilbys (former hat materials merchants), 33-35 High Town Road; 38-42 High Town Road, formerly Janes Brothers (engineers to straw trade); Bricklayers Arms, High Town Road; Railway Tavern, High Town Road; Well (formerly Blockers Arms), High Town Road; Tourist Information Centre, Bute Street

1990s

From: 1990 To: 2000

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Artezium,
James Egleton Limited,
I.Llewellyn & Company,
Walser, Paul,
Marida Hats,
Domestic Appliance Centre,
Wright, Walter,
Rotatrim,
A1 Boxes,
Burley, Richard,
Genevieve Louis Limited,
Kerrie Hats,
Randall Ribbons,
W.S.Hooker,
Marshall, Brookes & Chalkley,
Dickinson & Adams,
Peter Evans Studios,
Ken Peirson & Sons,
Parsons, R.B.,
Olney & Company,
K.R.Snoxell & Sons,
Russell, A.,
Contract & Design,
Worboys, J.,
Newnham & Vincenzi Packaging,
Barford Brothers,
W.Fischer & Sons,
Home Laundry,
Roland Allen & Company,
Herman Homan,
Battersby & Company,
W.Wright & Son Limited,
Sewing Machine Services,
Olney, A.E.,
Boon & Lane,
Peter Bettley Hats Limited,
Kilbys,
Janes Brothers,
Tourist Information Centre

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