Hyndland Cobblers!

[Sydney Rosewater]

Anyone recommend a cobbler? I've tried Merkland Street and Calder Street but I'm not happy with either.

Hello Dex,
I can highly recomend the cobblers at number 4 Burnfield Road in Giffnock. It's not exactly round the corner from me in the Calton but I wouldn't take my shoes anywhere else. It's called Quality Shoe Repairs or something. just a wee shop with one guy in it, and he knows his stuff.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Anyone recommend a cobbler? I've tried Merkland Street and Calder Street but I'm not happy with either.

Hello Dex,
I can highly recomend the cobblers at number 4 Burnfield Road in Giffnock. It's not exactly round the corner from me in the Calton but I wouldn't take my shoes anywhere else. It's called Quality Shoe Repairs or something. just a wee shop with one guy in it, and he knows his stuff.

Thanks Sydney. I've got enough Loake shoes kicking about to do a survey the results of which I may write up. I used to go to the Cobblers in Byres Road now closed and the ones I've been using recently are not consistent.

[viceroy]

What's wrong with the cobblers on Merkland Street? I've used them several times without cause for complaint. Is it just because they use staples? I suppose they all do that nowadays.

There's also a cobblers in Shawlands, on Kilmarnock Road just at Pollokshaws East Station. Supposed to have a good reputation from what I've heard, although I can't vouch for this personally.

[Josef]

What's wrong with the cobblers on Merkland Street? I've used them several times without cause for complaint. Is it just because they use staples? I suppose they all do that nowadays.

There's also a cobblers in Shawlands, on Kilmarnock Road just at Pollokshaws East Station. Supposed to have a good reputation from what I've heard, although I can't vouch for this personally.

I wear R&M Williams boots. Barring three or four special occasions a year, they are the only footwear I use. For two reasons.

1) They are the most comfortable footwear I've ever owned. And;

2) The soles last at least a year. If I buy UK shoes/boots, I'm looking at the soles wearing out in two months, three months max. I'm then paying twenty quid or so to get them soled and heeled. And repeat every two or three months.

It costs sixty quid to get the Williams boots soled 'n' heeled. And it's a bloody bargain, I tell you.

[Sydney Rosewater]

Thanks Sydney. I've got enough Loake shoes kicking about to do a survey the results of which I may write up. I used to go to the Cobblers in Byres Road now closed and the ones I've been using recently are not consistent.

Nae bother. I've been usin him for years. He does everythin in the shop too, stitching, the lot, nae 'outsourcing'. He's revitalised many a winklepicker for me that was otherwise on its last legs. He's been doin it for 40 year or somethin. Definitely worth a visit.

[Dexter St. Clair]

What's wrong with the cobblers on Merkland Street? I've used them several times without cause for complaint. Is it just because they use staples? I suppose they all do that nowadays.

There's also a cobblers in Shawlands, on Kilmarnock Road just at Pollokshaws East Station. Supposed to have a good reputation from what I've heard, although I can't vouch for this personally.

Inconsistency mostly. Stitching coming out after a few months, staples getting caught on stuff and a feeling that repairs are not as good as they were.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Tip Top Shoe Repairs, 9 Cumming Drive, Glasgow, Scotland G42 9AE


When my heel came away from my Oxfords on Thursday night thought that's that let's hit the cobblers. I took them to Tip Top Repairs which is just off the Cathcart Road. Parking was not too bad.

The cobbler himself had a look at the shoes said he could fix it and when I mentioned I was fed up with staples he said he never used them. He explained he would used a solution to glue them on and reinforce that with nails. He said it would be a thicker heel and maybe I'd gain a bit more height but it would be a solid repair. And I could have them back in an hour.

He was true to his word. A pair of Sovereign heels and my sole edges blackened all for £8 and I was ready for the dance floor at Pollok ES social club.


Recommended.

I've left my loafers and brogues with another two cobblers as recommended by others. Reviews will follow next week.

[Icecube]

on Merkland Street? a cobblers in Shawlands, on Kilmarnock Road just at Pollokshaws East Station.

With all due respect Viceroy this imported Americanism of being 'on' a street is just no Scottish. In this country we say 'in' a street.
Ah mean we don't say on Sauchiehall Street - we say alang it or even up it, the same as Buchanan Street is either up or doon and never on and the Gallowgate is most defintely alang

Please obey the rules or the Ess Enn Pee will render ye to Thailand or Paraguay and have your nuts boiled after separation

[Dexter St. Clair]

on Merkland Street? a cobblers in Shawlands, on Kilmarnock Road just at Pollokshaws East Station.

With all due respect Viceroy this imported Americanism of being 'on' a street is just no Scottish. In this country we say 'in' a street.

Certainly since the introduction of movies or films as you would call them to Glasgow the so called Americanisms have been popular with its citizens. That's continued with large TV audiences for American programmes. However one has to be careful in defining Americanisms as so many of them turn out to be Olde English in origin as the yanks as we call them preserved English almost untouched by the French spoken at the royal court which results in different spellings between English and American English.

Is kerb English, American , Scottish or French?

[HollowHorn]

Kirb, shirley?

[Dexter St. Clair]

Kirb, shirley?

I checked and whilst we pronounce it kirb the usually accepted spelling is kerb.

[Ally Doll]

Anyone recommend a cobbler? I've tried Merkland Street and Calder Street but I'm not happy with either.

The one round the corner from Merkland Street on Dumbarton Road (Bradley's? It's got a blue frontage) is very good, no staples as far as I could tell. Used the one at Bridgeton Cross recently, staples, but a reasonably good job.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Anyone recommend a cobbler? I've tried Merkland Street and Calder Street but I'm not happy with either.

The one round the corner from Merkland Street on Dumbarton Road (Bradley's? It's got a blue frontage) is very good, no staples as far as I could tell. Used the one at Bridgeton Cross recently, staples, but a reasonably good job.

Oh No!

[Dexter St. Clair]

Anyone recommend a cobbler? I've tried Merkland Street and Calder Street but I'm not happy with either.

The one round the corner from Merkland Street on Dumbarton Road (Bradley's? It's got a blue frontage) is very good, no staples as far as I could tell. Used the one at Bridgeton Cross recently, staples, but a reasonably good job.

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Chelsea ‎ - 10 Dec 2009
Warning! Ladies, do not get your heeled shoes repaired at Bradleys. I had 3 pairs fixed, all of which lasted less than 2 weeks and when I went back to ask the craftsman about it he said he'd never fixed them and that I was a liar, even after I'd presented him with my point of sale receipt. Take you business elsewhere.

[Dexter St. Clair]

After attending a Skull and Bones at Olympia House I took the opportunity of dropping off a pair of loafers at Ronnie's Shoe Repairs at 5 Bridgeton Cross. I noted it was lunch time when I opened the shop door as three of his follwers were eating chips and curry sauce. His assistant attended to me whilst Ronnie gave ma a quote of £18. "Leather Soles?" I queried. "I thought your soles weren't that worn down" and marked the price up to £28.

I got the shows the following week and have no complaints about the repair although I regret not mentioning my abhorrence of staples in the heels. Mind you he used eight per heel rather than the five my previous cobbler used and the appeared to have smaller heads too.

I'll report back on how they last.

I think it's driving that causes the increased wear and tear on heels.