The photos show the cobbler's tools. The wooden shapes hanging on the wall are lasts, made to the same shape as customers' feet, so that shoes could be made to fit them exactly. When the workshop closed, the tools were lent to Hereford Museum, along with a large collection of other domestic objects.

A Women's Institute history of the village written in 1951 says that in the early 1900s, many women in Brampton Bryan still wore clogs — hard wearing shoes with wooden rather than leather soles. These were produced by travelling gangs of cloggers from Lancashire and Clun, who used to visit the village from time to time.