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Hundreds of vintage shoes recently appeared on a beach in Wales — and residents are still endeavoring to understand the reason.
Volunteers associated with the Beach Academy CIC, an educational organization in Porthcawl, located the footwear on Dec. 18 during their work on a tidal pool restoration endeavor.
The group was seeking to remove debris to aid in returning the tidal pools to their natural state when they stumbled upon the collection.
Beach Academy’s founder, Emma Lamport, informed Fox News Digital that the shoes were identified in a limited zone of Ogmore Beach, situated in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Roughly 200 shoes and shoe bottoms were retrieved, according to Lamport, comprising men’s, women’s, and children’s footwear.
Hundreds of antique shoes were recently spotted on a Welsh beach, leaving local helpers and academics perplexed. (Beach Academy CIC via Facebook)
She shared a pair of possible explanations for their appearance.
The most probable theory, she conveyed, is that the shoes originated from a 19th-century vessel wreck named the Frolic, which crashed into Tusker Rock nearby. The ship was transporting goods from Italy at the time.
“They were carried up the Ogmore River estuary, and occasionally they show up… particularly when there’s been erosion of the riverbank,” Lamport stated.
The other idea is that, sometime back in the 1960s, a local factory churned out more than 50,000 pairs of boots and shoes each week — and shoemakers would discard any worn-out boots they couldn’t fix into the Ogmore River.
This unusual footwear discovery took place on Dec. 18 along Ogmore Beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. (Beach Academy CIC via Facebook)
In spite of the unusual character of the find, Lamport remarked that “it seems this discovery is not unprecedented.”
“The well-preserved leather shoes, darkened with age, that have been located recently aren’t the first to be discovered in the area,” she mentioned.
“People in the region have been sharing tales of encountering strange shoes along the South Wales shore.”
Lamport also highlighted that the shoes’ age has yet to be officially confirmed, which leaves their origin shrouded in mystery.
“The well-preserved leather shoes, blackened over time, that have been found recently are not the first that have been found in the area,” said an expert. (Beach Academy CIC via Facebook)
“What happens to them next is also uncertain,” she stated.
The Beach Academy will safeguard the shoes for the moment and is amenable to offering them to Cardiff University for use as instructive items later on.