Old Cole Bros - Clarks Shoe Department

[docmel]

pietro

 

You described it perfectly - and the reason why they were withdrawn was as I suspected.

[jolalujois]

I never saw the machine in Cole Bros. but was taken for a new pair of shoes when we were in London c 1950 and used one of the xray machines there.

[docmel]

Now this brings back memories !!!

 

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

[Guest poppins]

Originally posted by docmel

Now this brings back memories !!!

 

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

 

 

I wouldn't be able to get MY big toe in there let alone my feet!

[skyrocket]

I remember the foot x-ray machine, not particularly in Coles but in a shoe shop on Fargate. My ex-husband, a US citizen, remembers seeing the machines in NY in the early 50s. We were just discussing them last week and how we didn't realise how dangerous they were at the time.

[poppins]

I think just up untill 15-20 years ago many children had their shoes "fitted" sometime before the big malls opened, although I don't remember the machines in Coles but I know they were famous for their Clarks shoes, I use to walk around just to smell the leather shoes and gloves, you could always see posh people trying on the leather driving gloves.

[Hetty]

Ah! yes I remember them well!!!

[Tony]

I don't remember the x-ray machine but I do recall n electric foot measuring machine in Peter Lords on Fargate. It was a platform that you stood on and put your foot into a hole whereupon the lady pressed a button and silver blocks slid out between toe and heel then two more to measure the width. Oddly I can't find any images of it on the net.

[Plain Talker]

I don't remember the x-ray machine but I do recall n electric foot measuring machine in Peter Lords on Fargate. It was a platform that you stood on and put your foot into a hole whereupon the lady pressed a button and silver blocks slid out between toe and heel then two more to measure the width. Oddly I can't find any images of it on the net.

 

That's the foot-measuring device that I remember, Tony.

[docmel]

That's the foot-measuring device that I remember, Tony.

 

I used to work at Peter Lords in the early '70's and remember that machine very well.

 

It was a baptism of fire when new people started with us to go down to the basement, where the kids department was, on a Saturday, and measure a bunch of kids feet, especially when it was the last thing in the world they wanted to be doing!...talk about 'Some Mothers do 'av 'em' !!

 

All that being said - very happy memories and met the girl of my dreams while I was there.....pity she buggered off with my best mate about a year later!!