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Essex,23 Apr 2025,12 mins

The town built by shoes

Secret Essex

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The Czech Bata Shoe Company arrived in the small Essex village of East Tilbury in the early 1930s. For the next 70 years its impact went well beyond that of a maker of footwear. Victoria Polley tells the story of the ‘Bata-town’. (Photo credit: Bata Heritage Centre)

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