CLOGS! My Grandkids don't believe me!

I was watching my grandson putting on his fancy new trainers. I said, 'All I 'ad was pumps!'
'Is that all you wore,' he said.
'And clogs' I sez.
'You never wore clogs did you. I thought only the Dutch wore them'
So, I had to go into the 'ins and outs' of wearing clogs - who wore them - why - putting new irons on when the old were so thin through sliding, they broke in half.
'Cor!!' he said.
('course - we live in Devon...)

my mum tried to make me wear a pair the seventies because of my feet. totally refused. wish id listened though had problems with my feet ever since

I love clogs Only got a pair of them.. My granma has clogs from 70's when my uncle was stationed there in army. I used to pt them on butthey were too big now I am an adult the fit. Was over to there helping her out and was in the basement she had me try them on.

I have a photo of me and the boy next door riding our 3 wheeled bikes and we are wearing clogs.

my mom used to get me when I was little sandles that were clogs I wore them all the time til they broke.

The best pair I ever had

Always wore clogs to school ,kept Cobbeler busy putting on new Irons.They where good to use to skate on when the ponds froze over.

Used to have to bash around the top with a hammer so as to soften the leather around the ankles. Same with my football boots - not the nice low soft ones they have today. Had to knock the studs in myself. The nails would stick into the soles of my feet!

I had clogs when I was a kid. State of my feet now I blame the clogs and pumps.

Didn't they used to have 'cages' in schools - full of black 'pumps - marked in sizes with white paint? No one ever had their own pumps..

Didn't they used to have 'cages' in schools - full of black 'pumps - marked in sizes with white paint? No one ever had their own pumps..

'Ow did that happen!!

Yes they did have cages with black pumps and sizes. The teacher was always waiting for me 'cause I had irons on my clogs, made hell of a noise on the wooden floors. "Mind you having said that I never got bullied".

You just reminded me Hazmarcon - didn't they used to have 'Clog Fights? where they'd grab each other around the neck - and try to kick each others shins?
(Ouch!!)

(Where's the miners...)

Don't think I did that it wasn't very ladylike. Nobody ever called me names though. I still remember my first pair of clarks shoes though. I think me mam got some vouchers from the education.

We had many a clog fight In Abram,we used the catch cry "I,ll Pow thee too Death",they where the good old days,thank God they are gone.
I also remember the sound of clogs ,In Park Lane when the Miners from the Maypole where running to catch the bus on
Warrington Rd Abram,It sounded like a stampede of horses.

I had a pair of red clogs for my first birthday, we have cine films of me dancing around clip clopping in my clogs.

I have had mine for a couple of years. I wiould wear any shoes with wood on it.

doclatino,Just been down to your part of the country,we visited my neice in Lympstone her husband is in the Marines and we were invited to his passing out as a mountain leader at the marine training base in Lympstone.Went up to have a look at the shipwreck near Sidmouth the weather was great and its a very nice part of the country.I wore clogs at school and when the irons wore out my grandad used to put rubber irons on as they use to say, he would cut up an old bicycle tyre and nail strips to my clogs and he would say to me "thatle stop thi slorring" Had a few pints of otter bitter not a bad pint either.

I had red leather clogs, couldn't walk until they were on my feet, day I got them I was off like a shot!

I had some clog style sandals in the seventies. I remember going on the top deck of a bus with them on and losing my footing on about the fourth step down.They were dangerous things!

Still got me dads pit clogs, and they still have 'thirons on um, I wears um from time to time, thi fit me a treat, made wi Walter Hurst in 1943, in Hindley, and still as good as new, hows abaewt that for a gud buy

Good heavens Twozero{1943 Walter Hurst clogs] He made them to last thats for sure.

Aye and about 9 years ago he made apair for a friend of mine here in Portchester Hampshire, he saw mine and asked for a pair to wear when he takes the dog out, and he wears em twice a day, he ses 'yobs don't bother me now, I gives em a good kick wi clogs and they back off' I ses well thats wot we used to do fer fun int 50s near Wigan, well Platt Bridge, no coddin

I had clogs when I was little but mostly I had shoes made by Malley's the shoemaker in Wallgate. They were a touch cheaper than the factory ones and much better quality cos they were made to fit your own feet exactly. I think he used Kidd for tiny feet and the leather got tougher as you grew. I loved the smell of the leather and sitting on the counter. When the shop closed I used to stand outside the shop and peep thru the cracks between the boards on the window - I could still see the counter. I could still smell the leather too. I cried when they pulled the shop down. Ah sad memories!

i still wear mine they are boots with irons and hobnails on the bottom very warm and comfortable

I believe they were first made for the Weavers in the cotton mills as they were so warm to wear and they had to stand at the loom on cold floors, I also have a very tiny pair with all the brass studs around and the irons on , a lot of people here have never sen them before and always causes conversation they were made in the market, the stall was run for the blind

I had a pair when I was little as I was 'pigeon-toed'! I think they were red and made by Walter Hurst in Hindley.

Glad to say I'm not pigeon-toed anymore so they must have helped.

(I can also remember going for physio exercises at an building somewhere near Wigan library? and walking along practising 'heel, toe' in a wooden floored hall with a wall mirror and ballet bar. Not in my clogs though.)

Proper pointed toe Lancashire pitclogs

how do you put pictures on here / plain english please not paste etc

I was waiting for that photo.Should have known Art would put it on.We used to walk to school in the snow but we had stop every so often to kick off the build up on the soles.We had a name for it but i cant think of it.

gater..........Pads.....Remember 'em well

Top skater on me clog sides me, 'specially on Ted Balls Lodge at the side of the "Royal Oak", SLG.