Watch This I own Britain’s smallest shoe shop at 3ft wide - I can touch front and back walls standing on the same spot By Jessica Martin Comment Published 24th Aug 2024, 12:02 BST Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now This video More videos Watch Oliver Salter, the owner of Britain’s smallest shoe shop, discuss the history of the cheese-wedge-shaped store which, at 3ft wide, is the width of three size 11 shoes. Britain 's smallest shoe shop has been squeezing in customers for the past 25 years despite being a tight fit - at just 3ft (0.
9m) wide. Peter Scott Shoes is so small you can touch both walls while standing in the same place on the shop floor. At the equivalent width of around three size 11 shoes, the business is one of the smallest stores in the country and could be the narrowest in Britain.
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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Notice and Terms of Service apply. The 169-year-old building used to be a booking office on the platform of a former railway station where trains ran from 1855 to 1954.
The building was then home to a number of different services including a funeral directors, bank, auctioneers and a jewellers until it opened as a shoe shop in 1999. Oliver Salter, 31, who owns Peter Scott shoe shop in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, Britain's smallest shoe shop. | Tom Maddick / SWNS Due to the limited space, only one size for each pair of shoes can be stored in the shop at a time and customers have to stand in single file to view the displays.
Owner Oliver Salter, 31, who bought the store in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire in September 2021, said: "We have four staff who are semi-retired. They only do a morning or an afternoon shift as we don't really have facilities on site. We stock Rieker, Hotter, Lotus, Skechers, Jana, Wald Laufer, Gabor and lots more.
It's pretty much the shape of a cheese wedge. We were attracted to its quirkiness mainly - it is just so unique.” Continue Reading Related topics: Britain Business Trains Lincolnshire Video Comment Comment Guidelines National World encourages reader discussion on our stories.
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