Shoemaker's work

[Peg]

My great-grandfather was born in 1852 and was a shoe or bootmaker. What was the life of a shoemaker like?

[Jan-Erik Eriksson]

Peg
Home-shoemaker in Sweden 1900 (he was working in his home)

[Stig Geber]

Peg,
 
in earlier days the shoemaker often went around in the parish and made the shoes at the family who needed them. At that time the shoemaker didn't have any machines, only the tools he carried with him.
Often tailors and shomakers were handicapped in some way which preventeted them from ordinary hard work, but the occupation also was taken over by the son in several generations.
 
Regards
Stig Geber