In the middle of what is now the junction of St Michaels Rd & The Mounts, stood the large Italianate three-storey-plus-basement Mounts Shoe Factory. Built at the corner of Upper Mounts and Overstone Road from 1878, it was the b&s factory of Cove & West, later Edwin West & Co. By 1908 it had become The Mounts FactoryCo., which it remain until closure in the mid=1960s. Demolished for road widening in 1970.
Text and photo Courtesy of the NIAG booklet "The Industrial Heritage of Northampton's Boot & Shoe Quarter.
Trickers, 56-60 St Michaels Rooad. The present four-bay three-storey factory with decorative glazed brick façade dates from 1937. Trickers still produce hand-made shoes on this site and in 2005 the factory appeared in the feature film Kinky Boots
Text and photo Courtesy of the NIAG booklet "The Industrial Heritage of Northampton's Boot & Shoe Quarter..
