A hunt is underway to find a mystery ‘Cinderella’ who dumped a pair of broken wedges outside of Peter Corke’s shoe repair shop in Lancaster but he fixed them and now hopes to find the owner
A “Cinderella hunt” is underway for the owner of a pair of broken shoes left outside a Lancaster repair shop which have now been fixed by the store’s owner.
Peter Corke, 61, the owner of The Market Cobbler in Lancaster city centre, found the pair of tan wedges on his doorstep at around 7am on Saturday after their owner “left them outside the right shop”. After mending a broken strap for free, Mr Corke shared the images on Facebook in an attempt to locate their barefoot owner â who, he assumes, had been out on a Friday night.
The post has received thousands of likes and hundreds of shares, causing numerous visitors to come to Mr Corke’s shop asking if the mystery person or “Cinderella” had come to collect their missing footwear. “It’s like a city-wide Cinderella hunt â we need to find her and give her shoes back,” Mr Corke, from Lancaster, told the PA news agency.
“I came to work early Saturday morning about 7am and these shoes were more or less on the doorstep. They’re strappy sandals and the strap had come out of the sole of the shoe, so it would have been unwearable, it would have just been flapping.