A left brogue, dark brown, laces tied, and recently polished by the look of it. Against the churchyard wall at St Mary's, Mirfield. The notebook says 'a smart shoe for a churchyard, which I only observe', and that's the correct amount of saying. A polished brogue against a churchyard wall observes itself, frankly. My job were the recording.
Rain on and off, and the flask entry tells its own small story: 'flask conditions fair, drunk in the car.' So the weather won that one. I'll have done my noting at the wall, got wet enough doing it, and retired to the car for the tea, which is allowed. There's no rule says the flask has to be drunk standing over the shoe. The photograph didn't come out, and in November rain against a dark wall I'd have been surprised if it had.
This were my last Mirfield-side find of 2015, a year that took me over that way more than any year before or since, for reasons the register's already covered. Between the towpath at Shepley Bridge, Ledgard Bridge, the towpath below the station, and this churchyard, Mirfield gave me four shoes that year, all ordinary, all confirmed, all sound entries. Whatever else that side of the district were or weren't hiding, it dealt fairly with me on the shoes it actually showed.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.