Monument record 7198/414 - Perfecta Works

The Perfecta shoe machinery works origininated in 1903 as a single-storey factory and was extended in a series of phases between then and 1916. The principal front appears to have been towards Catesby Street on the east. Here a north lit range is concealed by a brick front with a tall parapet. To the north there is a single-storeyed gabled range which may be the erecting shop added in 1904. Fronting Bath Road to the west is the office and pattern store building with a gabled mansard roof, which was added in 1916.

Perfecta Works, Bath Road
Established 1896. The building is still there and appears to be in industrial use. Two storey factory.
Film 7, photo 24 (1)
Also there was a Boot and Shoe factory, Stamford Road / Bath Road
Boot and shoe factory shown on 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey map has now gone. Been replaced with large modern premises for Timson. May be factory listed in 1894 Kelly's trade Directory as having been owned by Thomas Bird and Son. Possibly W & T Farey and Son Boot and Shoe Manufacturers - listed in Kelly's Trade Directory of 1894.

{2} Bath Street
(In 1903 Timson, Bullock and Barber were motor engineers and cycle manufacturers in Stamford Road)

1910 Timson, Bullock & Barber manufacturing boot & shoe manufacturing in Catesby Street, off Stamford Road
1920 Timson, Bullock & Barber manufacturing boot & shoe machinery and printing machinery at Perfecta Works
1928 Timson, Bullock & Barber Ltd

Later Timsons Ltd manufacturers of printing equipment
By 1981 undertaking ironfounding for other firms

<1> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<2> STARMER G., 1981, A Check-List of Northamptonshire Foundries, P. 8 (Extract). SNN103905.

<3> ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2000, Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, KETT32 (Catalogue). SNN105075.

<4> Historic England, Perfecta Works, Bath Road, Kettering, BF103848 (Archive). SNN114935.

Record last edited

Mar 28 2023 12:58PM