Well, it's happened...it's official. Shoemarket in Bootle is NO MORE! I got told In late March when I was there (no, tell a lie, it was March 22) that the shop was due to close on April 30. The last time I was in there was April 18 (which was the date in 1988 when I got caught trying to nick a pair of shoes from Quiggins incidentally) when I was looking for a pair of the same shoes I saw in Liscard...the ONLY ******* branch left now and the Bootle shop was a depressing sight. Whereas there would have been row upon row of shoes at one time they were just arranged in any old order. Don't know why I went in there really because I made a special trip over to Liscard two days later to pick the shoes up, not to mention a pair of black patent courts in a six...probably the LAST ones in that size.
It's CRIMINAL closing the chain down because they had more choice of shoes in there than you could shake a shoehorn at and, as for tights, that's where I used to stock up! I've been in Shoe Zone and, not only do they have about as much choice as a Welsh chippy but the shoes aren't that cheap...unless of course you're prepared to pay nearly twenty quid or more. I mean who are they? an outlet version of Marksies? read more