‘Cinderella hunt’ after owner of shoe shop mends broken wedges left outside
Peter Corke, the owner of a shoe repair store in Lancaster, spotted the broken footwear on the doorstep of his store on Saturday morning.
A “Cinderella hunt” is under way for the owner of a pair of broken shoes left outside a Lancaster repair shop which have now been fixed by the store’s owner.
Peter Corke, 61, the owner of The Market Cobbler in Lancaster city centre, found the pair of tan wedges on his doorstep at around 7am on Saturday after their owner “left them outside the right shop”.
After mending a broken strap for free, Mr Corke shared the images on Facebook in an attempt to locate their barefoot owner – who, he assumes, had been out on a Friday night.
The post has received thousands of likes and hundreds of shares, causing numerous visitors to come to Mr Corke’s shop asking if the mystery person or “Cinderella” had come to collect their missing footwear.
“I came to work early Saturday morning about 7am and these shoes were more or less on the doorstep.
“They’re strappy sandals and the strap had come out of the sole of the shoe, so it would have been unwearable, it would have just been flapping.
“She obviously left them outside the right shop.
“I assumed someone must have been out on Friday night and obviously this lady has walked home in her bare feet.”
He added: “I mended them so she can have her shoes again because it’s good as new now, and she’ll be able to wear them again if she wants it back.
“I’m hoping she does come in for them.”
“It’s been like a bit of free advertising I suppose, but I didn’t intend that at the start,” he said.
Mr Corke started his own business in 1989, first operating in the Lancaster Market before it closed in 2012, when he relocated to his store under the same name.
Of his business, which he operates on his own as a “one-man band”, he said: “I enjoy working, the customers are great… I actually look forward to coming to work, when you enjoy work it’s not so bad.”
