Quote Originally Posted by tricia w View Post
Does anyone remember Bobby,s shoe shop facing Burtons the tailors. i worked there for a while in the late 60,s,we used to get all the Russian sailors buying about twenty to thirty pairs of shoes each ,because we were one of the only shops that stocked size 8 shoes. The shop belonged to A & B shoe shop in bold street. I must add that the shoes the sailors bought were always white stilettoes (how big must their feet have looked).They were for their wives i think
Don't recall Bobby's Tricia, but that Burtons was where I got my first Made to Measure Crombie coat from. Had to pay back half my pocket money for months to my mum to pay for it. This was when they were still tailors. God I feel so old!