Dictionary of Sydney

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Erskineville Bootmaking School

Technical college established to teach bootmaking in 1906.

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Erskineville Bootmaking School

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Growing out of the Sydney Technical College, the Erskineville Bootmaking School was a specialised trade training school, where the principles of bootmaking, and the maintenance of the machines used to make them, were taught to apprentices and returned servicemen from both world wars.