HUNDREDS of Victorian-era shoes have been found during a beach clean-up in Wales. The Beach Academy CIC, based in the country’s south, said volunteers working on a tide pool restoration project at Ogmore-by-Sea Beach found about 200 shoes and detached soles late last month. “We could tell straight away they...
HUNDREDS of Victorian-era shoes have been found during a beach clean-up in Wales.
The Beach Academy CIC, based in the country’s south, said volunteers working on a tide pool restoration project at Ogmore-by-Sea Beach found about 200 shoes and detached soles late last month.
“We could tell straight away they were old – the shapes of them were clearly old-fashioned, with hobnails in the soles,” Beach Academy founder Emma Lamport told The Telegraph.
She said local residents told her they have been making their own shoe discoveries on the coast for years.
“Locals have been relating stories of finding strange shoes along the South Wales coast.”
One theory suggests the shoes fell from Frolic, an Italian cargo ship which was wrecked off Wales’ coast in 1831.
