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Started by: norman prior (817)
The true story of RED CLOGS.
In the mid to late 1920s a Canadian man came to England. He was about 7feet or more tall and wore bright red coloured clogs.His picture was front page news in the newspapers because of his size and was referred to as the Giant and because he wore the red cloggs was known as Giant Red Clogs.
From that time,Parents used to threaten their children by telling them Giant Red Clogs would come and take them away.
Another true part of that story was when my two older brothers had not been on their best behaviour an uncle of ours who was quite big himself, stood on a box outside the front window and pretended to be Red Clogs. He tapped on the window and nearly frightened us to death.
Replied: 26th Dec 2010 at 13:42