What's New
This is a list of what has changed on the website, newest first. It does not include the shoes. The shoes are on the Register and that is where they belong.
Our nephew Gary built this website in the autumn of 2009 and looked after it himself. By 2011 he were busy with other things, so he showed me how to put an entry up and it has been mine since. The first two year are his and I have put down what I can remember of them.
I started keeping this list properly in September 2026, which is seventeen year late. I have gone back through the old pages and through my emails to Gary to fill the rest in. Where I could not pin a day down I have put the month and left the day off. One or two will be a week out and I would rather say so than not.
71 changes recorded. Newest first.
2026
17 Sep
Gary has changed the writing at the top. It was the round one before. He says it was time.
17 Sep
Put a page up for the equipment. People ask what I take with me, so now it is written down.
17 Sep
Put my old posts from The Lost and Single Items Board on here. The board itself went off in September 2019 when whoever were paying for it stopped. Gary had kept a copy of my threads and I did not know that until last week.
11 Sep
Another short film on the Moving Pictures page. It is me going through the front room looking for the flask.
4 Sep
Gary has got rid of the bookings page. Properly this time. He says it was to do with the hosting.
21 Aug
There is a podcast now. I have put it on the front page with the episodes underneath.
20 Aug
Put the figures up on a page called Statistics. I counted them twice and the counts agreed apart from one, which turned out to be me.
19 Aug
Every shoe has a trip report now, of sorts. The early ones are short because the notebook were short and I will not pad a record out.
19 Aug
The last of the notebooks is typed up. The Register is complete, October 2009 to now.
16 Aug
2020 to 2026 up. The wellington ledger has gone on an' all, kept separate, which is where it stops.
13 Aug
2015 to 2019 up. Four notebooks in three evenings.
11 Aug
Started typing the old notebooks onto the website, a year at a time. 2009 to 2014 are up. They are thin at the front.
9 Aug
The website has moved. It has its own address now, keithsshoes.uk. Gary saw to it and it took him an evening.
9 Aug
There is a channel on the YouTube with the films on it.
9 Aug
Gary has done the Gallery over. It looks nowt like the rest of the site. He says the rest will follow when his credits come back.
9 Aug
I have been through the bookings page and written on it what I know, so nobody is misled. I could not get rid of it. DO NOT BUY THE TRAINERS.
12 Jun
New telephone. The films look about the same.
22 May
Gary has put comments at the bottom of the trip reports. I answer them of an evening when I get in from Stuart's.
9 May
Made a page for the short films. It is called Moving Pictures. You press the little arrow.
18 Apr
An advert for a light parade in Portugal. Same arrangement as the others.
6 Apr
Put a link to the Instagram at the top. I am on there now.
2 Apr
The bookings page is back a second time. I have deleted it a second time.
21 Mar
The bookings page is back. I have deleted it again.
14 Mar
A page called bookings has appeared on the website selling trainers. It is not mine and it is not Gary's. I have deleted it.
8 Feb
The map is on. Gary did the technical side. Not all of them are on it yet, I am working through the old ledgers.
2025
Nov
The link from About Keith to the Questions page went nowhere. It goes there now. As far as I can tell it has been wrong since 2018.
Sep
An advert for a hotel in Norway, up in the mountains. Same arrangement.
Mar
Turned the photograph on entry 248 the right way up. It has been on its side since I put it on and nobody has mentioned it.
2024
Aug
There is an advert in the sidebar now for a cave. A firm asked could they put an advert on. I said yes.
Apr
Went through and took the year out of the copyright line at the bottom, as I were forgetting to change it.
Feb
Put the second half of the flask review on. Thirteen year is long enough to award a fifth star.
2023
Jun
Put the June update on the Shop page. Stuart has taken a dozen pens for the trade counter at the merchant's.
Feb
Website were off for two days. It come back on its own and Gary says not to worry about it.
2022
Aug
Fixed the spelling of Slaithwaite in four places. It were wrong in the same way each time, which at least is consistent.
Mar
Noted Barry's three pound on the Heckmondwike page. Contributions should be acknowledged.
Jan
Gary has put a donations button on the Heckmondwike page for the travel. It looks a bit different on different browsers. I am not sure why.
2021
Oct
Added a note to the Questions page. I have found a pair. Everything else on that page still stands.
May
Put a Lost Shoes list on the front page. Four of them. I note them and I do not draw conclusions.
2020
Nov
Nowt much done to the website this year. I kept putting the entries up and left the rest of it alone.
Apr
Took the Next Planned line in the sidebar off for a bit, as there weren't one.
2019
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No changes to the website this year. Trevor were doing the drive.
2018
Nov
Put the November update on the Shop page. Thirty one pens had gone damp in the garage and I tested every one of them on a sheet of A4.
Sep
Made a page for the Heckmondwike. I have been careful about how it is written and I will keep being careful.
Mar
New camera in February, so the photographs from here on are a better size. I have not gone back and done the old ones and I will not.
2017
Aug
Website were slow for a fortnight. Gary changed summat on his end and it were right after.
Apr
Took the guestbook off. It were all adverts for watches and one lad from Leeds.
2016
Sep
Gary has fixed the counter. It counts the shoes now instead of the people, which is the more useful number anyway.
Apr
Gary has put a button on the Shop page marked Order Now. It does not do owt. I have left it on as taking it off seemed more bother than it is worth.
Apr
Made a page for the pens. It is called the Shop. There are 250 of them and I only wanted thirty.
2015
Dec
Counter still says four million.
Jun
Nothing further on the stiles page. There were a shoe on the reservoir path on the way to the third one and by the time I had finished with that the light had gone.
Mar
Started a page for the stiles of the Colne Valley. Same principle as the shoes. Nobody else is keeping a record of them.
2014
Oct
Put the sightings on the front page newest first. They were the other way round for three year and nobody said owt.
Jul
The counter says four million. It is not four million.
Feb
Made a page for the questions I am asked, to save people the wait, as I am not always quick with the email.
2013
Nov
Gary has put a guestbook on so folk can leave a message.
Aug
Made a page for reviews. There is one review on it. It is the flask.
May
Gary has moved to Swindon. He showed me how to add a page before he went and it has worked first time, more or less.
Mar
Barry from Dewsbury has started sending sightings in. Put a line about him in the sidebar.
2012
Sep
Tried to turn the moving text off. It is still on.
Jun
The entries have the weather in them from here on. I did not decide that, it just seemed to belong there.
Jan
Put the moving text along the top. I got the instructions for it off a website that has them.
2011
Apr
Put a photograph on an entry for the first time. It is grainy. They suit the subject.
Mar
Gary has put a counter on so I can see how many folk come on.
Feb
Put an entry up myself. It took an hour and a half and it is four lines long.
Feb
Gary has shown me how the website works and handed it over. He built it in the autumn of 2009 and has run it himself since. It is mine now.
2010
Sep
Gary has put the first of the shoes on. Three of them, eight words apiece. He typed them off the notebook while I read them out down the telephone.
Mar
Gary has put a page on called About Keith. He wrote it himself off what I told him and it were about right.
2009
Nov
Gary has built the website. It has my name on it and a page for the shoes, and there is nowt on that page yet. He did it over a weekend and would not take owt for it.
Oct
Gary has asked could he make a website for it. I said I could not see what there were to put on it. He is making one anyway.
I will add to this as things change. If summat on the website is wrong and it is not on this list, that is because I have not noticed it yet, so do write in.
Keith Plimmer