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Walter Hursts Shop.
Walter Hursts Shop.
Photo: maurice tyrer
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Item #: 3225
Inside Walters shop, he said it was more or less the same as it was when we were lads..

Comment by: alan stott on 21st March 2008 at 10:27

quite right i remember sitting in that room waiting while walters grandad put irons on my clogs as i remember nothing as changed it was just the same as the photo

Comment by: Joan Whittle on 8th April 2013 at 17:25

I still have a pair of clogs made by walter

Comment by: KEVIN HUGHES on 26th July 2016 at 19:47

MrHurst made me a leather football for my 5th birthday(1951)I remember a lovely smell of leather in the shop and Mr Hurst working away with a cigarette permanently between his lips.Walter Hurst & Sons real craftsmen.

Comment by: Eddy Rea on 25th April 2024 at 10:52

I have a pair of clogs (child size) by Walter Hurst in Western Australia.

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