The City of Street

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" Only a mile or so to the south of Glastonbury is Street, known as the home of a world famous shoe industry founded there in the last century by a local Quaker family, the Clarks. Visitors should look out for bargains in footwear, leather and sheepskin in Street's many excellent shops. In fact the town now boasts a major factory shopping complex - Clarks Village. The reason in part for the fairly recent expansion of Street is the shoe-making firm of CJ Clark, which started in Street in 1825. In mid-Victorian times Street was a tanning centre for the manufacture of sheepskin rugs and shoes, but as the industrial revolution spread, so shoe making developed from a craft-outworker cottage industry to a factory, mass-production activity. Nowadays, Clarks is a household name for shoes throughout the world, and this multi-national company still has its headquarters in Street."
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