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Footwear
Aug 3, 2024 18:43:40 GMT
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 3, 2024 18:43:40 GMT
I have just been chatting to a couple who live in Thurso. If you want to go to a shoeshop, the nearest is in Inverness, 110 miles away.
For some in the Colonies, that probably counts as 'just down the road', but not on this wee island.
I am somewhat hornswoggled
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Post by jenny on Aug 3, 2024 19:07:21 GMT
For us in Portland that would be round about Boston, and in my opinion far too far to go to buy shoes unless there was no alternative - which I guess for the people in Thurso there isn't.
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Post by efros on Aug 3, 2024 23:17:54 GMT
For my clodhopppers I'd probably have to go to Portland or Augusta. Fortunately I can get my footwear online relatively easily.
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Post by amanda on Aug 4, 2024 4:12:36 GMT
I'm part of a group posting parcels of clothes etc to remote Australia's Indigenous communities for the same reason - no shops within cooee as we say. For some in remote Western Australia, ( my latest was to Fitzroy Crossing), it can be 50 - 100 km to the nearest town.
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Post by jenny on Aug 4, 2024 15:29:21 GMT
For my clodhopppers I'd probably have to go to Portland or Augusta. Fortunately I can get my footwear online relatively easily. There's a New Balance outlet just my side of Lewiston would be a bit nearer for you, Efros, but still quite a way. |
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Post by crissdee on Aug 4, 2024 16:22:25 GMT
In my tiny town, there are, strictly speaking, five places I could buy footwear. This sounds a lot, until you realise three of them are charity shops, and the other two are too posh/expensive for me. Actually, I have just realised there are, in fact, six places, as there is a farmer's supply place a few minutes walk away, that will sell the sort of boots usually found adorning the crissdee lower extremities...
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Post by suze on Aug 4, 2024 17:27:42 GMT
I have just been chatting to a couple who live in Thurso. If you want to go to a shoeshop, the nearest is in Inverness, 110 miles away.
This turns out not to be entirely true.
I discover that there have been a number of shoe shops in Thurso and Wick - the only other proper town so far north - but they have all closed. However, there is an active shoe shop in Kirkwall, which is but 46 miles from Thurso.
Sure, there's an inconvenient lump of sea in the way, and it would be cheaper for a Thursonian to go to Inverness for her shoe needs. But it can be done a bit nearer.
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Post by efros on Aug 4, 2024 18:23:49 GMT
For my clodhopppers I'd probably have to go to Portland or Augusta. Fortunately I can get my footwear online relatively easily. There's a New Balance outlet just my side of Lewiston would be a bit nearer for you, Efros, but still quite a way. We have on occasion gone to their yearly Tent sale. |
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 4, 2024 19:30:32 GMT
I have just been chatting to a couple who live in Thurso. If you want to go to a shoeshop, the nearest is in Inverness, 110 miles away.
This turns out not to be entirely true.
I discover that there have been a number of shoe shops in Thurso and Wick - the only other proper town so far north - but they have all closed. However, there is an active shoe shop in Kirkwall, which is but 46 miles from Thurso.
Sure, there's an inconvenient lump of sea in the way, and it would be cheaper for a Thursonian to go to Inverness for her shoe needs. But it can be done a bit nearer.
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Post by eeyoresmum on Aug 4, 2024 19:31:00 GMT
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Post by suze on Aug 4, 2024 22:15:06 GMT
I did a similar search myself a bit earlier, and sad to say, all the shops in Thurso and Wick which are listed there have closed down. In two cases they closed down more than a decade ago, so maybe don't use that particular site if you're looking for a shoe shop "in anger".
There are a couple of charity shops in Thurso which might have shoes, but if you want new shoes then it's Inverness or Kirkwall.
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Footwear
Aug 5, 2024 8:55:27 GMT
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 5, 2024 8:55:27 GMT
I have just been chatting to a couple who live in Thurso. If you want to go to a shoeshop, the nearest is in Inverness, 110 miles away.
This turns out not to be entirely true.
I discover that there have been a number of shoe shops in Thurso and Wick - the only other proper town so far north - but they have all closed. However, there is an active shoe shop in Kirkwall, which is but 46 miles from Thurso.
Sure, there's an inconvenient lump of sea in the way, and it would be cheaper for a Thursonian to go to Inverness for her shoe needs. But it can be done a bit nearer.
Wellies, perhaps? |
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