The Victorian Cobblers Shop Blists Hill UK
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2018
- A look at the Victorian Cobblers shop at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire, this is typical of old cobblers shops that used to be in lots of towns and villages, in fact I can remember having my shoes resoled at a similar cobblers shop in the village of Penshurst, Kent, UK.
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My grandfather was a cobbler. When the business closed down he bought up the tools and machinery from his boss and moved them to his garden shed. It was made of bricks, so perfect for a little workshop. He used to repair the neighbours shoes as a little business whilst working full time in a tool shop. I suppose he learned the trade in the 1930s just before he went off to war. I just to go into his shed and play with all of the tools when I was a kid. I still have his Singer sewing machine.
Thanks Harry. From an old dude in Kansas USA, love the insight into Victorian England. I really enjoy your videos.
Thank you sir. I do enjoy that. From Mississippi USA across the pond.
Thanks very much.
When I was about 10 years old my family moved into the last house on the left hand side of Payton lane. There was an old man that lived in the last house on the right and at the very end of the lane, between his house and ours was a cobbler's shop about the size on the one in this video. The proprietor was none other than the man across the street. I think all the tools and machines were older than the man himself. I would sit quietly in the corner and watch by the hour. Thanks so much for this nice little trip down memory lane.
Thats great thanks Darrel.
Been there fascinating place. I remember as a kid we would watch our local cobbler through his window which faced the pavement as he tacked on heels and soles. I also remember how sharp the knives were as he cut off the surplus leather. He could work very fast.
Always reminds me of the old joke about the man who took his shoes to be repaired. He then went away to sea and forgot about them. When he returned 10 years later he found the ticket and went back to cobbler. He handed the ticket in, the cobbler looked at the number and said, "they'll be ready next Tuesday".
Reflects the fact you made many trips before they were finally repaired!
That's good!
Well done Harry,..........A nice video again, and well explained.............A good trip down memory lane..........Thanks I enjoyed it very much
Thanks very much
I bought my Singer 29K-58 from a little closed down cobbler shop. The shop was just a small oddly wedge shaped space in an ancient brick building, but it had been in business over 100yrs and run by 3 generations of family. Our modern "throw-away" society eventually did it in.
Thanks
..sounds a bit familiar!
I went there a couple of days ago, after seeing this video. It was a lot of fun, thanks for the recommendation!
Great!
@@harryrogers may I ask, which part of the UK you live?
@@WeirdSide Southern England
Great video - must be a new addition since we were last at Blist Hill. My grandad was a cobbler / shoemaker..his old machines are in our city museum.
I love this kind of thing. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Hola Harry.
Muy simpática visita a estos muy antiguos talleres que ya son museos. Muy difícil de encontrar y más difícil que aún esté en servicio con un zapatero dispuesto a enriquecernos con su conocimiento. Gracias
Nice work baby...keep it up...love u from pakistan
Shropshire! Birthplace of Charles Darwin! Many other cool things too, I'm sure. But that is my favorite bit of trivia of Shropshire. (and only, if I'm honest.)
Very interesting.
Thanks Brother.
Dreamt of becoming a Cobbler as a kid. ....having a small old shop as they had in years back. Had two older men(brothers) having a shop in the basement of the building where I lived as a boy. Used to go and visit with them many times. Remember the smell of leather. Seemed to be such a lovely and cozy place to be spending the days at work. Working with your hands.
Don't know what happened to the brothers. Don't see that kind of small Cobbler shops any longer. Sadly.
Thanks for sharing Harry. I really like these videos. So enlightening and entertaining.
Nice one Harry, oh we were near Shropshire Hills just last month, missed this, will keep an eye next, good review
Interesting video! I’d buy a pair of HR shoes! 👞👍
When we were kids in grade school, the coolest of us would pound in those three- pronged furniture glides into the heels of the shoes, making an authoritative tap noise whilst strolling down the hallways, wouldn't even think of doing that now to your $200 Air Jordans. ☺
Good story, and I had a teacher that went tap tap...he was a good sort!
I went there with school used to live just up the road from there Coalbrookdale
It's a nice area.
in our village yalding kent the shoe mender was known as the snob
Good video. Perhaps they could clean the place up some. Remove rust etc. Perhaps not enough volunteers, a common occurrence. Thanks Harry.
Greetings, Thank you for sharing your videos. I enjoy them and have learned interesting things as well. I have a off topic question and could not find a way to send a message other that as I do now. In one of your videos quite a while ago you seemed to be ing your home and on the wall was a painting of a dog. It is in a rather "cubic" style, I don't how else to describe it, and with interesting colours. Could you please tell me more about it? Thank you. pax, PL
Hi yes it's actually a picture of our ginger Tom cat done in a cubism style of painting...one of my son's was researching different art styles and tried painting different things in a particular artistic style. The film was on how easy to use Cad software! Should have been cat software!!
Greetings, well please pass on to him that I enjoyed seeing it. Well done. thanks. pax, PL
Thats down the road from me lol gd place togo
Will Speke where you from I went to Coalbrookdale primy school
@@Thelegend-gt5lb aqueduct ways :)
Could you please tell me what phone or camera are you using to film your videos? besides the content of your channel I also quite like the image quality of your videos, thank you!
A lot of it is on a Sony AX53. Blists Hill was shot on a small old Sony Camcorder...CX340?
Hey Harry, I lived in view of that up until 3 years ago, now just a mere 4 miles away, did you get to go an peek at the Iron Bridge? (albeit covered at present)
Hi yes..in fact I stayed literally opposite the bridge!
@@harryrogers tontine hotel?
@@colingmaccoll The Library House!
@@harryrogers I hope you enjoyed your stay and our beautiful county made a good impression on you. You should visit again and see some of the iron museums, and make the short trip to the black country living museum.
Thanks Colin..its a lovely area..I did get to most of the museums, and I will be posting a film on the Broseley pipe works!