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When Wiganers had holes in their new shoes

Started by: i-spy (15310) 

...how long ago was that

Started: 8th Oct 2018 at 19:08

Posted by: ann-spam (3470) 

I see a few with holes in there trainers .

Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 19:38

Posted by: i-spy (15310) 

And their jeans

Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 19:43

Posted by: broady (inactive)

You pay much more for jeans with holes in!!!! Work that one out. Faded with holes in and you need a mortgage.

Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 20:15

Posted by: beep54 (1037)

Thrown better stuff away

Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 20:25

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (16559)

Replied: 8th Oct 2018 at 20:31

Posted by: builderboy (2350)

Was it when they were tied together and hooked over a rail? Stewart Paul's in Pemberton used to do it. The holes were at the heel end of the shoes.

Replied: 9th Oct 2018 at 13:44

Posted by: tomplum (14744) 

famous Wigam saying,

whats do when thee shoe lets water in in ?

answer,

purr hole in fort let waiter owt

Replied: 9th Oct 2018 at 14:07

Posted by: i-spy (15310) 

Spot on builderboy but I was thinking Tommy Ball's. Folk used to hire coaches to get there.
Wonder if it's still open

Replied: 9th Oct 2018 at 14:27

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Replied: 9th Oct 2018 at 14:54

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Set out a couple of times to go to Tommy Balls. I lived in Littleborough at the time, so route to blackburn took me past Owd Betts.



As Poo Bear used to say, always time for a little something!

Did not get any further towards Blackburn!

Replied: 9th Oct 2018 at 15:07

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

When I lived in London, next-door neighbour was Swedish, and every year, brought me a pair of Scandi Clogs.



I used to re-sole them with car tyre, as you see in some style of Indian Sandal.

Can't do this any more. I still wear clogs, but the wood is of such poor quality these days, it wears out from within prior to any need to re-sole.

Replied: 9th Oct 2018 at 15:28

Posted by: i-spy (15310) 

I'm glad they weren't inflatables priscus. You might have popped your clogs
You can't beat the oldies

Replied: 10th Oct 2018 at 16:35

Posted by: dja (81)

In the forties mi dad would go to the tip for old bike tyres which he cut into strips and nailed em to our clogs,the good old days eh.

Replied: 11th Oct 2018 at 10:01

Posted by: r.fisher (607)

no tommy balls long gone


Roy.

Replied: 11th Oct 2018 at 18:12

Posted by: kathpressey (5708) 

Prince Harry had holes in his shoes at yesterday's wedding

Replied: 13th Oct 2018 at 08:35

Posted by: spud1 (inactive)

Clogs with irons were great for making sparks,when they wore out we took them to Hurst's to have new irons put on,the shop remained the same until it closed decades later.

Replied: 13th Oct 2018 at 13:22

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

One day, I ran down West Hill (SW 18) trying to catch a London Bus which was pulling away from the stop.

It was going fairly fast, but I leapt through the intervening space, grabbing the vertical hand rail, and managed to swing myself around it, to land on the bus platform.

I looked back, to see, on the pavement, my footwear disappearing into the distance.

I had jumped clean out of my clogs!

Replied: 13th Oct 2018 at 15:38

Posted by: kathpressey (5708) 

Did you get off and go back for them priscus? I would have!

Replied: 19th Oct 2018 at 09:03

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

Absolutely! London pavement painful for bare-footing, had to walk about 400 yards to retrieve them!

Replied: 19th Oct 2018 at 13:35

 

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