Lost Sounds #1: Dawn Chorus of Clogs in the Nineteenth Century April 27, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
The clog was the preferred footwear of the English industrial north, and particularly the industrial north-west. Shoes were cut from wood and tipped with iron in Lancashire, in the West Riding and the mill towns of Cheshire and Derbyshire. The clog cost relatively little, it was good for defending yourself, it was durable and it […]
Purring – a Lancashire Martial Art? July 19, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Nineteenth-century clog-fighting: did it really exist? First some background. Clogs, of course, at least in their English incarnation, were wooden-soled shoes typically used in factories or in mines by the working classes in centuries gone by, because they kept their feet warm and because they were cheap Some claim that factory workers would tap […]
