Shoe menders

• cathald

  Participant

  January 24, 2010 at 7:56 pm

  My good brasher walking boots were getting quite slippy as the sole were almost worn through.
  I couldn’t afford £100+ for a new pair so I decided to drop into the local shoe repair shop
  €20 for new soles and heels and a good clean up and they are like a new pair of boots
  I normally just dropped into the shoe menders to get a key cut but the service I got here was great
  and a good place for a chat also with a couple of local characters

  So this is just a plug for our almost forgotten about shoe repair men
  MartinOC

  Participant

  February 4, 2010 at 2:19 am

  Hey Cathald,

  Why don’t you ask him can you document his work? sit there for a few hours and photograph the technique, and the customers and the chat.
  Even offer to give him a book of photos, black and white should work nice, for this old school stuff.

  There was someone on PI before, a student, who went into some of the surviving family run shops in Dublin and took pictures of the staff/shops and chatted with them. He made a great project out of it.

  But its much easier to do when you are a cheeky young student. I want to document my local ramen shop, someday I might ask…

  Martin
  cathald

  Participant

  February 4, 2010 at 8:41 am

  I have been thinking of something along those lines now for quite a while Martin
  A couple of different types of trades that are dying away
  the next time I am in there I will have a chat to him about it