Hobsons shoe shop on the Strand in Derby has put a display with five coloured rings in its window.

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He grew up the son of shop keeper parents (both also engineers) in Germany, where working in the shoe store was a family affair.

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She had worked in an office and a shoe shop before embracing the Quiverfull life.

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The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.

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