These shoes caught my eye as I walked around the Battersea area earlier this year, and I’m sure as photographers they would have immediately caught your eye also. It’s pretty odd that they are all here tied up, and can only imagine they have been left on the riverline when the tide goes out, unclaimed, and someone then ties them up here so that they don’t then drift off down the Thames.
Not sure if there are any matching pairs and I didn’t look at them too closely, but even if there were I doubt they would be in a good enough state that you would wish to wear them.
Pretty much, it looks like one of those things that just begs to be photographed!
No, you wouldn’t want to wear them but it would be eerie to find a pair. It’s common to lose one shoe (though who knows why) but seldom does one lose two.
Another interesting shot… This would definitely have caught my eye.
It’s the story that’s hinted at by these shoes that really makes the shot.
Hopefully it’s nothing like the weird stuff that washes up on the west coast of north America:
http://io9.com/5846221/why-are-severed-human-feet-washing-up-on-the-beaches-of-the-pacific-northwest