Cook & Hurst Ltd, Admiral sports Wigston, Leicester june 2014

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Leicestershire born Christopher Cook and Harold Hurst began manufacturing hosiery in 1908 under the company name of 'Cook & Hurst Ltd' in Wigston. They first created the Admiral trademark in 1914 to brand their ranges of underwear.

When England won the World Cup in 1966, Bert Patrick, the owner of Cook & Hurst, commenced manufacturing and marketing football kits.The kits sales were aimed at the juvenile market and through selling connections in the sports retail trade. Bert Patrick believed that the advent of coloured television would enable him to persuade football clubs to accept personalised kits which his designers would produce and then register them under the Design Copyright Act.

This year marks the Admiral brands 100th birthday
i first visited this site in 1986 delivering sewing machines to stylish styles !


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the foyer
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telephone rentals
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factory floors
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Canteen

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Kitchen

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Good stuff mate, I didn't know Admiral was a Leicester company
 
God I remember asda selling admiral clothing and accessories a few years ago, never knew it originated in blighty!

Any ideas on where production has disappeared to? Bought by some Chinese corporation no doubt. Thanks for the pics : )
 
Admiral made the England strip for a few years in the 1970s-80s, noted for the red & white shoulder stripes.

Sometimes it's known as the Kevin Keegan strip, as he played a lot of international wearing it during the time it was current.
 

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