| When a mechanics' union campaigned for workingmen's interests in 1828, it was a signal advance for cobblers and their kind. |
| Many of them were skilled artisans, such as silversmiths, masons, milliners, cobblers, singers and tailors. |
| They were once so numerous that the town kept the feast of St Crispin on October 25, patron saint of cobblers. |
| I even stopped in the cobblers to say hello to the shoemaker's wife, and promised to buy my next pair of shoes from them. |
| They had a mill worked by bullocks, a general store, an Inn, a blacksmith, a pair of sawyers, several carpenters and a number of cobblers. |
| His ancestors were cobblers but diversified into making vividly embroidered leather bags, wallets and chair backs. |
