"Owain" wrote in message
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"raden" wrote
| I can remember the shoe shop used when I was little having a
| cuckoo-clock, which fascinated me greatly and meant that
| shoe-buying trips had to be synchronised to the hour :-)
| I bet you had some Wayfarers (?) too
| ... with the compass in the heel and animal tracks on the soles

Yeah right, black Clarks shoes for winter and brown Clarks sandals for
summer.

I'm not sure they were around when I were a little lass but they wouldn't
have been affordable anyway. I can't remember if shoes were rationed but we
did only have, at most, two pairs a year. Sandals had the toes cut out to
allow for growth. I remember my mother saying that some shoes had cardboard
soles.

Ee, the good old days!

Mary

Owain