I don't own a pair any more but remember just after we moved to Barrowford in East Lancashire after my folks split up in 1973 both myself and my brother were taken by our grandparents to a clogmaker's shop in Nelson where we were measured up and properly fitted for a pair of the booted ones with the irons on the sole for school, apparently my Mum and her sister also had clogs made there when they were kids as well, but along with the demise of the mills in that area when the old guy that owned the shop retired there was no-one to take over.
They were hard work on worn cobbled street and manholes, grate covers etc and not very nice in the winter my feet always seemed to get very cold, we had a new pair each year for 3 years and then stopped wearing them and I started wearing Doc Marts or trainers and wore Doc Marts 10 hole black boots for school until I moved back to Derbyshire at 14 and was sent to Repton for schooling as my Dad didn't think much of the local comp and I was the "bright" one.
They were hard work on worn cobbled street and manholes, grate covers etc and not very nice in the winter my feet always seemed to get very cold, we had a new pair each year for 3 years and then stopped wearing them and I started wearing Doc Marts or trainers and wore Doc Marts 10 hole black boots for school until I moved back to Derbyshire at 14 and was sent to Repton for schooling as my Dad didn't think much of the local comp and I was the "bright" one.