On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:00:02 +0000, Stefek Zaba
wrote:

Andy Hall wrote:

They were called a Pedoscope and it was part of the ritual in any
Clark's approved supplier of kid's shoes.

[ ... ]

I reckon that they had disappeared by the early sixties.

Still in use Ooop Noorth (Wilmslow) in the later sixties - had my feet
done more than once with this brilliant (?) invention when a nipper,
can't have been earlier than 1967...

Stefek


Yebbut it's not really Ooop Noorth in the real sense is it?
Wilmslow is to Manchester as Solihull is to Birmingham - a sort of
island of the sophisticated south - kind of.

As somebody once said to me regarding things from the region - they're
made in Bolton, sold in Manchester and bragged about in Wilmslow. :-)

(Said he, fed up because the Times has turned exclusively tabloid this
week - don't know what the world's coming to. I was going to say
that they'll have tits on page 3 next, but with some of the articles
about our illustrious politicians, I think they already have...... ).



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