You know that we all have different thresholds for high heels that are falling apart. Well mine…read moregoes pretty far. As long as my feet don't touch the ground and if I love the pair I will keep on wearing them (and there are even exceptions to this - so what if there's a hole in my favourite flats, I have tights on etc etc). The Village Cobbler is what you need when your black Zara peep toes are too bad for words, and you've already tried cellotaping them back together ... and you've got to get the train back to uni tomorrow. Oh, and could you just do them now? Thankyou thankyou thankyou. Obviously under normal circumstances there is a queue- a couple of days is usual. They cut keys here as well and sell all sorts of useful things like luggage etc. The only thing to defeat them was a small satchel bag that I completely murdered: my sister thought that she could salvage it (and thus take ownership of the poor thing). Alas, they needed the spring which I had carelessly dropped somewhere. Lesson learned. They are not miracle workers but they can fix and engrave most things.

Great guy and great work. Knows what he is doing and extremely nice and helpful. I had a small 5…read moresecond repair that needed doing. Offered to do it for free. What a guy.

The Village Cobbler is one of these shops that offers dead useful service like shoe repair, key…read morecutting, engraving and other services you thought you'd never really need. What's more, this is a business that's always going to be needed by people, so the service is great, friendly and efficient.

Called into cromptons today needing a small repair on my sheepskin jacket, after discussing he…read morecarried out the stitching whilst I waited and has done an excellent job exactly what I wanted, he was extremely polite and friendly and to my amazement at the end he did not charge me. How many shops do that these days, none so Thankyou to cromptons. Really pleased.

I needed heels and sole on a pair of boots, got a great quote left phone number, recieved a tex…read moremessage the next day to say the were completed picked them up excellent job like new can not praise them enough will use again.

Took my leather walking boots for new soles. Cobblers did a cracking job and went the extra mile…read moreapplying mink oil to the leather. Great value for money. Thankyou

Us young uns today seem to forget that instead of buying a new pair of shoes we can easily get some…read morefixed. Today the answer is to buy a new pair of shoes. So in future go here as Timpsons is the best for fixing your shoes. They take care to get them looking brand new again and if you want you can alway go back later and pick them up. Also it is really cheap and they also do key cutting and pet collars. So a great shop!

I cannot describe the joy I felt the first time I realised I could get my heels.....re-heeled…read more Timpsons was the place I discovered this amazing fact and since I have had a positive attitude to all things Timpson. This shop has really friendly staff that always get your shoes repaired on time. You can go and do your shopping rather than wait and best of all it's really cheap to get most repairs done!