For half a century, seven days a week, Roger Metry has let himself into his Redfern shoe repair shop at 6am ... his sole stitcher could be 80 years old. One friend or another, Peter or maybe ...

Instead, you visit the store to get an old pair of sneakers repaired or spruced ... In the U.S., for instance, there were 100,000 shoe repair shops in 1930; today there are fewer than 5,000.