Bank holiday Monday, very warm, and Holmfirth on a warm bank holiday fills up like a sink, so the book records I were in and out early, which is the only way to work Holmfirth in season.
Child's trainer, right, red, with a cartoon character on the side I didn't recognise. I noted at the time that I didn't recognise it and I'm no wiser now — I could describe it, a sort of round creature with a face, but I never went looking for its name because the name isn't the record, the trainer is. It sat on the wall by the river behind the bus station, good condition, laces in and tied.
Children's shoes turn up more than folk would think, and the register treats them the same as any other, because the moment you start treating some shoes as more worth recording than others you've stopped keeping a register and started keeping a scrapbook. Two photographs. The flask stayed in the bag — too warm, and no spot to sit by the bus station anyway, bank holiday or not.
This were the second child's shoe of 2019, the other being the school shoe at Beaumont Park in March that made a hundred and fifty. I only note the coincidence because the notebook sits them eleven entries apart and I noticed it doing this write-up. At the time it were just a red trainer on a warm wall, and I were home before the traffic.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.