Have you tried speaking to a sales person from Screwfix or similar? Or maybe it would be worth trying one of the companies that has a sales rep who can run you through their sizing options. In better times there are often health and safety shows you can go to which can be good for viewing the latest ranges of gear and finding new suppliers. There's a few independant companies about so maybe search for them. The reps will be bored with no shows to go to.
We got a bus pass to school as we were over 2 miles, but our next door neighbour didn't. After 2 years they remeasured and we stopped getting it. so we walked.
Back in the mid 1950s we lived on a RAF base in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Norfolk (is there anywhere more in the middle of nowhere than that?) We had free transport to school, but only for the under 8s. All the kids over that age had to walk because it was under 3 miles.
Can you imagine the squeals of anguish these days if the poor little darlings had to walk half a mile?
@NorthernJoe in general if you put a space and then UK at the end of your search, it will stop you getting loads of irrelevant sites in far flung places.
We got a bus pass to school as we were over 2 miles, but our next door neighbour didn't. After 2 years they remeasured and we stopped getting it. so we walked.
Back in the mid 1950s we lived on a RAF base in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Norfolk (is there anywhere more in the middle of nowhere than that?) We had free transport to school, but only for the under 8s. All the kids over that age had to walk because it was under 3 miles.
Can you imagine the squeals of anguish these days if the poor little darlings had to walk half a mile?
I was in a hamlet in the middle of Suffolk in the late 50s/early 60s ... they closed the local school and said we had to walk to the school in the next village ... not a pavement in sight ... just high banks and deep ditches.
When our parents objected that it was unsafe 'they' pointed out that it was only 2.5 miles as the crows flew across the fields so we could do that .... Pa pointed out that it was only 2.5 miles if we walked in a straight line right through the middle of his wheat fields ... if we went around the edges (using the registered footpath) it was much further ... then there were concerns that 10 year olds were not able to safely escort five year olds across narrow plank bridges over deep ditches in the dark in the winter and if parents escorted them who would look after the babies etc ... you can't push a pram over the fields, and anyway by the time the mothers (and of course it would've been mothers) got back home it'd be time to set out again to fetch the children in the afternoon .... you have no idea how hard the County Councillors (whose children were all deposited at the doors of their prep schools by car) tried to get us to walk in the mud and the rain across the fields in the winter ... eventually the anger of Head teacher at the new school (only two teachers) at being expected to cope with a posse of wet and muddy children in the morning, dry our boots and coats, and then pack us off back across the fields at 3.30 in the afternoon , coupled with angry letters in the East Anglian Daily Times from Ma and others including the Parish Council, lead to the provision of Mr Bickers' elderly bus for the journey. 🚌
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I walked to school. Almost every day from 3 (preschool) to 18. I do recall a couple of days when it was raining so hard that Mum decided to drive us in the aforementioned ancient Riley Kestrel she had recently acquired. But the windscreen wipers used to stick so she'd have to keep stopping so I could get out and unstick them, resulting in me being pretty much as wet as I would have been had I just walked. I've never worked out how far it was to each of the 4 different schools I went to - a couple of miles I guess, either up the hill or down the hill. There was a kind gent who let us take a shortcut through his garden to avoid having to walk all the way down the hill and back up again on the way to secondary school, which probably saved about half a mile. Otherwise it was along the main road and through housing estates, so not muddy, at least.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When my OH was working as a stone mason, lugging great chunks of granite and slate around, he would go to the local farmers store for his safety boots. Never once lost a toe.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Bring back those foot X-ray machines in shoe shops! OK, maybe not such a great idea. With the technology widely available today there is no excuse for badly fitting clothes and footwear. LiDAR scanners are now built in to iPhones. A 3D scan database of every shoe/boot from the manufacturer compared against a 3D scan of your feet would do the job in nanoseconds.
Last time I bought walking boots I tried 7 pairs before getting a good fit. The sales assistant knew her stuff and concentrated on brands known for having a wide fit which I need. In the end it was one specific model she remembered from a brand better known for narrow fits that did the job. Sadly the shop owners retired and closed the business.
Apparently I should just be ordering dozens of boots from Amazon to find one pair that fit and just send all the others back. Hard to imagine a more stupid, wasteful system.
I'm fed up with the internet! It's supposed to be the repository of all human knowledge these days but try as I might I cannot find anywhere that imparts the simple knowledge of what men's safety workbook is best in terms of price, performance, fitting narrow feet and selling in UK. I've found plenty of reviews of work boots in the UK but they don't all have safety ratings or mention the fit. Jerry pretty much any other type of boot reviews describe fit. Or they're advertising best prices in dollars and there's loads of USA specific brands unavailable from UK companies.
It's for with work and we need en standard safety boots, higher rating the better. I don't have much budget for them so anything over a set value I pay for. Every safety boot I've used had needed so many innersoles in just to adjust for the wide fit. Not all workers have very wide feet!!
It's annoying because of all the rubbish going around on the internet the useful stuff can simply be so poor.
Try finding safety boots in a narrow ladies' size 2.5 if you want a hard time of it !! I ended up with a 3 and extra-thick socks.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Well just checked out the sketches boot listed and you can get it here BUT the reviews say perfect for my husband's wide feet! No wonder you are feeling curmudgeonly 😞
eventually the anger of Head teacher at the new school .......
Parents would get no help from the Head teacher at our school. He openly admitted he hated RAF kids and was proud that he'd never got one through the 11+. Rural school with 3 teachers if you include the head. Thankfully we weren't there long.
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When our parents objected that it was unsafe 'they' pointed out that it was only 2.5 miles as the crows flew across the fields so we could do that .... Pa pointed out that it was only 2.5 miles if we walked in a straight line right through the middle of his wheat fields ... if we went around the edges (using the registered footpath) it was much further ... then there were concerns that 10 year olds were not able to safely escort five year olds across narrow plank bridges over deep ditches in the dark in the winter and if parents escorted them who would look after the babies etc ... you can't push a pram over the fields, and anyway by the time the mothers (and of course it would've been mothers) got back home it'd be time to set out again to fetch the children in the afternoon .... you have no idea how hard the County Councillors (whose children were all deposited at the doors of their prep schools by car) tried to get us to walk in the mud and the rain across the fields in the winter ... eventually the anger of Head teacher at the new school (only two teachers) at being expected to cope with a posse of wet and muddy children in the morning, dry our boots and coats, and then pack us off back across the fields at 3.30 in the afternoon , coupled with angry letters in the East Anglian Daily Times from Ma and others including the Parish Council, lead to the provision of Mr Bickers' elderly bus for the journey. 🚌
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Never once lost a toe.
Try finding safety boots in a narrow ladies' size 2.5 if you want a hard time of it !! I ended up with a 3 and extra-thick socks.
Might be US but sone of the brand's can be bought here.
Well just checked out the sketches boot listed and you can get it here BUT the reviews say perfect for my husband's wide feet!
No wonder you are feeling curmudgeonly 😞