This one matters more than it looks. Right trainer, white, size eight or nine, by the railings at the lake in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury. It were reported to me by Barry from Dewsbury, with a photograph, and that were the first submission the register ever had from anybody who weren't me.
The photograph were no use. It could have been a trainer or it could have been a bin bag, and you can't number a bin bag. So I drove over to Dewsbury and confirmed it in person — laces in, right foot, white, by the railings — and it went in as forty-seven. That set the rule that's held ever since: reported shoes are welcome, but only confirmed shoes get a number. I didn't sit down and decide that. It just followed from the photograph being what it were.
Dry, warm enough, the notebook says. Barry's photography has come on a great deal in the thirteen years since, to be fair to him. But this were the first, and I'm glad it's in the record proper.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.