In reply to cb_6: Nothing to do with resoles, but...
Cheshire shoe repairs is about a mile away from me. Over the years I've had a number of pairs of rock shoes done by them, in addition to some other, more general, cobbling.
The wife's Brasher shoes had reached a stage of advanced distress recently, with the stitching loose or gone in places and big gaps between the sections of the uppers. They were, or had been, very comfy. Rather than relegating them to gardening, I took them in to Cheshire Shoes repairs last week to see if they could stitch the bits back together, and left them with them. I collected them yesterday, and a first class job they'd made of them too, neat, tidy, strong and repaired in places I'd not requested because they thought the stitching looked like it would go in the not-too-distant future.
The cost of this excellent repair work? Four quid.
Marvellous shoe repair shop, that. We're in the process of moving house to a different part of the country and that's one thing I'm going to miss.
T.
I've no connection with the shop, I just live near them and have been a satisfied customer on many occasions.