Kinky Boots cast strut to Wolverhampton Boot Factory - in pictures

Callum Francis, Joel Harper-Jackson, Paula Lane, George Grayson and Jacob McIntosh all took time out from the show, which is set in a Northampton boot factory, to visit the site of what was the James Baker Boot Factory on Cleveland Road in Wolverhampton.

The Wolverhampton boot and shoe manufacturing company was originally founded in 1850 by James Baker. The business started out producing industrial footwear, but later moved to the production of ladies' and gentlemen’s' boots and shoes.

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Just like in Kinky Boots story where Charlie Price inherits his father’s Northampton shoe factory, on James Baker's death, the Wolverhampton business ‘Baker’s Boot Factory’ passed down to his two sons, T. G and W. P. Baker.

They were trading until at least 1950, and the building is now home to the LearnPlay Foundation.

Press and PR manager at the Grand Theatre, Scott Bird said he story of the Wolverhampton Boot Factory was really exciting to discover.

"While boot production ended some time ago, the building still looks incredibly like the Price & Son factory in the musical today", he added.

"It has been wonderful to uncover a history to Wolverhampton that is so closely matched to Northampton’s where the Kinky Boots story is set.”

Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father’s expectations and continue the family business of Price & Son. With the factory’s future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos.

With direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell and featuring music written by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots is the winner of every major Best Musical award including three Olivier Awards, three WhatsOnStage Awards as well as six Broadway Tony Awards.

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