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Did anyone else ever have a pair of clogs ?

I had a couple of pairs with the wooden soles and thin iron sort of horse shoes on the soles and heels.

I think my Mother must have got them cheap down the market because I can't remember any one else wearing them, but they were great for sliding till the irons came off.....

What about the old Jerking suit, sort of battle blouse top with short trousers to match ?

 

You know reading this back I must have looked a right dip stick back then, talk about Billy no mates.....:roll:

 

There was an old bloke used to have the smallest shop ever on Ladys Bridge that used to make clogs maybe she got them from there

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I remember that clog shop, it was right at the end of Nursery St. One of my schoolmates always got his clogs bought from there. He was the eldest of four kids, they all wore clogs, it was a poor family, his father being on the idle side but he sure could knock kids out. The clogs were brilliant bits of kit for sliding in winter. I remember one time though, him coming to school in bare feet. There was a few kids at Pye Bank like that, had to get footwear and clothing from, was it Fairthorne or something? Good old days they were.

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Lady's bridge. Nursery St.

Would Blonk St be on the other corner?

Have pleasant memories of around there but not as far back as a clog shop.

It's lovely to learn what used to be.

 

I got my first pair of clogs from there and my brother got a leather belt from him and it is still in use some 60 years after.A little further on was the Constantines barber shop.

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Lady's bridge. Nursery St. Would Blonk St be on the other corner?...
Yes - just across the Wicker. The Marsland family ran the clog shop and it was an old-established business, being shown in directories as long ago as 1905. They also had branches on Attercliffe Road and Attercliffe Common. The shop at No 1 Nursery Street survived into the 1960s to my knowledge, and in fact is still shown in the 1974 Kelly's Directory..:)
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I loved those clogs even though they could hear you coming three streets away, they were surprisingly comfortable and warm but I haven't got the foggiest where they were bought.

They may well have been cheap back then but I bet it would cost you a fortune for a pair today.

A most valued gifts this Christmas was a pair of bracers, haven't wore any in years though at that time everyone did, in fact I don't think you could get a pair of trousers with belt loops till the 50s...

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On the subject of clogs our old boy wore nothing else at his job at Neepsend Power Station,I remember he removed the horseshoe shaped irons off the bottoms and replaced them with a home made sole made from conveyer belting!.With ordinary clogs you could hear them coming a mile away,with our old mans he was silent as a ghost,all his workmates nicknamed him "Sugarfoot",that's not what I called him but that's another subject!.

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Yes - just across the Wicker. The Marsland family ran the clog shop and it was an old-established business, being shown in directories as long ago as 1905. They also had branches on Attercliffe Road and Attercliffe Common. The shop at No 1 Nursery Street survived into the 1960s to my knowledge, and in fact is still shown in the 1974 Kelly's Directory..:)

 

I'm trying to picture the location of the clog shop. Where on Nursery St. was it? All at the Wicker end, I see the Lady's Bridge side which had a couple or so stores one of which was a yellow tiled barber shop, a branch of Scott's maybe and the other side that had a jewelers, a pub and the coroner's court.

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So, you've walked the length of Nursery St, the Don on your right, approaching the end, no more river in sight, some businesses still on the right, the clog shop was right at the end. An opening was next, round the corner, then you were almost on Lady's Bridge. Blonk St was opposite.

Anybody remember Union shirts? Thick flannel things with stripes and sometimes no collar. All the steelworkers had 'em. Bloody awful.

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