# Work boots, resoled

> Joseph’s grinding boots: patched on the toes and soled four times.

https://vitrine.themes.dev/collection/boots/

- Made by: Unknown bootmaker; repairs by the family
- Date: About 1935
- Material: Leather, iron nails
- Size: Men’s size 9
- Cost new: Twelve shillings
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: Made to Mend, beside the last

Grinders wore boots like these on wet stone floors all day. These were Joseph Merrin’s, and between 1935 and 1962 they were resoled four times on the cast iron last that stands beside them in the case.

The patches on the toes are where the boots met the trough of the grindstone. The laces are new: we replaced them, and the label says so.