Wooden Shoes Issue Title Is On Your Toes (1943)

Part of issue ON YOUR TOES. Somerset. Various shots of wooden soled shoes being made a factory. The soles have leather uppers and leather treads (to prevent wear and noise whilst walking). Various shots of pair of finished ladies' shoes being compared to pair of old fashioned Lancashire clogs. The modern wooden shoes are marginally less frumpy than the Lancashire clogs. Wooden shoes were wartime alternative, due to leather and rubber shortages. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the