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We’re done duh duh done done!! Only for the kids this year, she said… Hmph!


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1935 Xmas


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Happy with the presents, but some are for sharing.

It might seem odd for an photograph for a boy to be wearing wellington boots indoors, but in Children’s Homes it was often quite an ordinary sight.
For many up to the 1960s the main shoes were more of a working type design, often with metal studs in the sole and heel, the other item worn were lace up boots, again with studs in the heels, neither of which was very good for the wooden floors which could have been easily scratched and would always be cleaned and polished by the children, so to cause less chores, anything with a soft rubber sole would be chosen, unless you wanted to upset any of the others on floor polishing duties that day. In the 1960s if you had sandals, they could be worn indoors, but the ones that had crape rubber soles left marks on the polished floor, thus more polishing chores.
Slippers could be worn if the child owned them, but with the chance of getting them wet or messy during chores, it was often not worth the risk, plimsolls were another choice, but as these were often at school, or in the school part of the Home, they were not often picked for daily use.
Another reason for not choosing slippers or plimsolls was that they made it very easy for staff to punish you with, if you were not wearing them and your wrong doing did not warrant the cane, then either a light slap or just a telling off was normally the result, far less of a punishment.
The other reason for not wearing leather shoes or boots was not having to clean them, even if they were not dirty, they still had to be spotless when they were put away. Staff could make you spend extra time re-polishing them even when you thought you had made a good job of them, if you seemed to be idle, shoe polishing was an easy way of keeping you busy.
If you were a younger one and not old enough to be allowed the adding of the polish first stage, only the final polish stage, it saved having a task set for an older boy who would need to help you at polishing time.

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