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The Public Benefit Boot Company

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BRANCHES

Listed are around 780 business addresses used from the 1870’s to the 1970’s by The Public Benefit Boot Company Ltd and associated companies – Benefit Footwear Ltd, Lennards Ltd, and Lennard Bros Ltd. The list, accessible via the links to the left of this page, is by no means complete and additions or corrections will be made to the list as more information becomes available.

The addresses have been compiled largely from directory listings, company documents, advertisements, promotional items, etc. Addresses have been transcribed as they appear in these sources. Where the company traded on a prominent street corner, either of the street names may have been used as the address at various times. There are several cases where the company traded in a town at a particular time but the specific address is unknown.

The dates shown beside each address indicate the years for which there is some evidence that the businesses occupied that addresses although it is understood that in some cases, the company traded there for a much longer period. In other instances an address has been confirmed but no specific dates have been established for that address.

For the sake of simplicity no attempt has been made to differentiate between the various trading names associated with an address. Due to the complicated business relationship between the companies, there are some addresses where for example, over different periods the trading name varied from ‘The Public Benefit Boot Co’ to ‘The Public Benefit Boot Co - Lennards Ltd’ to ‘Lennards Ltd’.

Top left: An engraved letterhead of The Public Benefit Boot Company's Leeds headquarters with numerous branches listed.

Top right: Eccleston Street, Prescot, where the company traded for around threee decades.

Left: Branch that traded at Cornmarket, Pontefract for more than thirty years