...how long ago was that

I see a few with holes in there trainers .

And their jeans

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

Thrown better stuff away

Hole in my Shoo

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.

famous Wigam saying,

whats do when thee shoe lets water in in ?

answer,

purr hole in fort let waiter owt

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

Ball's

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!

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.

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

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.

no tommy balls long gone


Roy.

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

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.

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!

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

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