| Description | Shoe sales ledger books from 1950-1991 list shoe style and size, salesman, cost (and profit margin to 1961), weekly total sales, and a running total of pairs of shoes sold annually. From December 1962, they note external factors that might affect sales. These include weather (such as snow, sleet, heat wave), power cuts, sporting fixtures (boat race, grand national, and cup finals), repairs to the shop or roadway, school and bank holidays, opening and closing of other shoe stores, and staff holidays or illness. Other information is occasionally recorded such as changes in the sales tax rates, and births and deaths in the family |