The London Boot Company

THE LONDON BOOT COMPANY (James Cunningham), 162, Hope Street, Glasgow.

    Amongst the numerous high-class trading establishments for which the City of Glasgow is conspicuous, due prominence must be assigned to the leading house conducted with marked success by Mr. James Cunningham under the style of the “London Boot Company”, at 162, Hope Street, and which, from its intrinsic importance and long standing in the commercial world, fully merits special recognition in these columns.

    The business is one of the oldest of this character in the City, having been established half a century back by Mr. James Cunningham, predecessor of the present proprietor, and was for many years located in Gordon Street, subsequently removing to the more central and convenient site now occupied. The premises in Hope Street comprise a handsome and commodious single-fronted establishment extending about 80 feet to the rear, in which is situated the spacious workshops.

    The interior is well appointed, and presents for inspection a splendid assortment of high-class goods of superior quality in hand-made ladies’ and gentlemen’s walking, riding, shooting, and dress boots and shoes. The proprietor, being under no necessity to attract customers by a meretricious display of his productions, does not rely upon the ordinary business methods to advertise his goods, the name and reputation of the firm alone supplying a sufficient passport to the extensive patronage of an influential character extended to the house. The business is essentially and exclusively confined to “bespoke” orders, no ready-made goods being held in stock ; and visitors to the establishment are in every case measured, lasts made to suit the conformation of the foot, and goods manufactured to order on the strictest anatomical principles, thus ensuring absolute accuracy of fit and comfort in wear.

    The leading specialité produced by Mr. Cunningham includes the execution of orders for racing and hunting boots, which are supplied to the leading patrons of those branches of national sport at home and abroad, and which, for unsurpassed excellence of material, fit, and workmanship, are unrivalled in the trade. The services of a number of efficient first-class workmen are employed in the manufacturing departments under the practical management of the principal, whose extended connection with the trade and unvarying courtesy to his patrons have gained for Mr. Cunningham a well-deserved continuation of the confidence and support so justly accorded to this establishment for so many generations past.

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