An interesting link for all you shoe fanatics

[Tony]

This is the Northampton shoe museum site, there are some interesting shoes and facts about shoes, enjoy.

Tony

www.northampton.gov.uk/museums/collecti ... d_shoe.htm

[Tony]

Sorry i'm no good with computors,as i underlined the link it cancelled out the underscore between :-boot_and_shoe

Thanks

Tony

[Guest]

Very nice, thank you Tony,

http://www.northampton.gov.uk/museums/c ... d_shoe.htm

[T4phage]

Thanks for the link Tony!

[bengal-stripe]

I’ve just been to the Northampton shoe museum a couple of weeks ago and it’s well worth a visit. I was most impressed by some “repaired shoes”, competition entries from the 1920s/30s, where they used hundred and hundreds of nails in various colours to make the most elaborate patterns and designs on the bottom of the soles. (Don’t know if there were any complaints about slipping.)

There was also an X-ray machine to check the fit of kiddie’s shoes (They were phased out in the late 50s when they realised that exposure to X-rays wasn’t beneficial). I have vague memories of those machines, where you put in your feet, wearing the new shoes, and your mum and the sales-lady look into the machine and the sales-lady pronounces triumphantly: “He’s got plenty of room, Madam!”

Rolf