thet defo was some bargins to be had if you were up early enough,i remember getting a pair of leather dealers for about 3 quid and a pair of doc martins for a fiver,everyone used to say the shoes were ex-catalogue stuff not sure if that was true.

Oooooh that sounds fantastic. Does this magical event no longer happen then?

Originally posted by sugarnspice
Oooooh that sounds fantastic. Does this magical event no longer happen then?

its no longer there it was known as the umberella market or flea market if my memory serves me right,it was behind the old sheaf market.

That Marcus woman didn't stand a chance in them days She had to be fast to bag a bargain at the friday morning shoe stall Eh, them were the days

Originally posted by kirky
thet defo was some bargins to be had if you were up early enough,i remember getting a pair of leather dealers for about 3 quid and a pair of doc martins for a fiver,everyone used to say the shoes were ex-catalogue stuff not sure if that was true. i remember them being 17/11 and 27/11.

It was reffered to as the 'Friday morning grovel' when I was at school - I got some cheap doc martins too!

I remember it well. I was once given £20 to get some shoes from town. However, the night before I was due to go into town to buy the shoes, I was staying at a freinds on the richmond park estate. I had the twenty quid with me. That evening I did what most kids would do with £20 quid in their pocket, I spent the greater part of it on fags and rubish. My intention was to visit the friday shoe market early the following morning and pick up a pair of cheap shoes, hence no one would know the difference, I'd have a pair of shoes, and a couple of packets of players No 6!! brilliant!! The Plan was fool-proof, that is untill me and my freind overlaid!!!! We flew out of the house at about 9.30am and rushed to the market, only to find all the best shoes had gone. I eventually had to buy a pair of really naff shoes which I hated, I had to wear these shoes for months, still not all my memories of the market are bad. I once bought a great pair of Pods their really cheap. A graet Market, thanks for jogging the memory!

yes i remember it, and for a short times there was a stall called "tony's happy shoe stall", which i took a photo of 'cos it made me laff

i will eventually post it on the net for the world to see

You had to get up about 5 in the morning to be in with a chance of getting the best stuff!

I remember that the boxes which were emptied onto the tables were mixed - some decent shoes, most of them ok, some totally crap. We used to whinge at the shoe fella to empty another box onto the pile and he used to make us stand there for ages going "not yet mate, gotta let 'em sell down first". Git.

Crikes those were the days ... Friday morning you always made sure you didn't overlay so you could get the "good stuff" cos let's face it there was some rubbish on there!

I loved it too because as a typical woman it was fantastic to get a pair of shoes and a handbag to match as there was also a stall that did cheap bags too ... can anyone remember it?

i used to go mondays and fridays before 8a.m. as i lived for a while at park hill flats just opposite.

you got the best junk before everyone else! and fox's cafe was open, bacon butties for 90p.

them were't'days...:|

here's my picture i mentioned earlier on in the thread:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/HAPPYSHOESTALL.jpg

omg - i had almost forgotten that market - i used to go early doors to bag some bargains

Went there so many times. I think we also went on a Tuesday too. I remember the best trick was taking my Mum and giving her the odd shoes to hold - remember they weren't all tied together? while I dived back in to look for the matching pair or a better pair. Sometimes someone else would have the missing pair and then it was who would hold onto it longer. When I didn't have to go anywhere after I could just stay and wait. Got a few good pairs like that. Usually had to trudge back up through town to catch the bus to school.

We used to call it the dead mans stall :)

i loved that shoe market, bargainmania :)

i remember getting a pair of loafers on the toss of a coin i had one shoe and a bloke had the other so he tossed the coin and i won great days.

That was YEARS ago. My best mate used to go before school, and bring in her bargains. I have been left school for 18 years almost!

That was YEARS ago. My best mate used to go before school, and bring in her bargains. I have been left school for 18 years almost!

*frowns, meaningfully in Babooshka's general direction*

shurrup, you. lol :hihi:

you're making me feel very old. It's thirty years this year, since I left school!!!

(Blooming-heck... there are kids only just born, when I was leaving school, who could actually be grandparents, now...! :o that's a horrible thought!)

these bluddi spring chickens! hehehe

I remember it well! I was told that they were shoes that had been worn by models for only a few minutes. Remmber coming home with a pair and dad wanting to know why they were almost worn out! Always seemed to have hundreds of the same shoe. Still got up at 6am to get down there before school though. :hihi:

what a brill post, i used to love the shoe market, i can remember getting many pairs of bargain shoes and boots. At 1 point there was a stall selling tops fom dorothy perkins (the coolest shop of that time)i used to go straight to work have a bacon butty in canteen and show all my stuff off. I remember the faces now green with envy. love it.

one or two gems in a shoe pile of tat. like someone earlier i also got a pair of pods. i remember though most times i thought that the pain of getting up so early[very hard for a teenager]was too much given that quite a few times i went down, there wasnt anything remotely wearable

I remember it well! I was told that they were shoes that had been worn by models for only a few minutes. Remmber coming home with a pair and dad wanting to know why they were almost worn out! Always seemed to have hundreds of the same shoe. Still got up at 6am to get down there before school though. :hihi:

I'd been told the same tale, texas...

The other tale I was told, which to me seems to ring much true-er, was that they were shoes that had been taken into cobblers for repair, and not collected by the owner.

The Cobbler disposed of the shoes (As per the notice they usually displayed which read "Any shoes not collected within X months will be disposed of") by selling them to the people on the shoe stall, and folk like us would buy them.

I've had some good shoes off the stall, and I've had some rubbish shoes in my time.

But what puzzled me is how they got so darn many of the same shoe... did everybody who bought that style of shoe take it in to the cobbler, and leave them uncollected, to have so many of that style on the stall at the same time? It's all a bit strange.

i remember at that time, i wasn,t working, got a pair of "proper" leather cowboy boots with wooden heels,i thought i had the world till they wore out,happy days.

I still have a pair of pod boots i bought so many years ago from that stall ,They were a bargain at the time £25 i wore them a lot but they just would not wear out .I keep them at my parents as winter wear when im over (i travel light ) when i put them on its like meeting an old friend it reminds me of happy times .

Got myself a pair of POD blue shoes ,all the rage 1980ish , remember going down on the 51 bus before school and having to rush back on the bus to get to shool on time!

When did this market stop? I went to it a couple of times last year on King Street - only bought one pair though as not a lot of choice... Mostly 2nd hand with a few others that were slightly damaged...

*frowns, meaningfully in Babooshka's general direction*

shurrup, you. lol :hihi:

you're making me feel very old. It's thirty years this year, since I left school!!!

(Blooming-heck... there are kids only just born, when I was leaving school, who could actually be grandparents, now...! :o that's a horrible thought!)

these bluddi spring chickens! hehehe
Me too:o Was that the same as the Sets market? That's what my mum called it anyway.