The Golden Boot engine shed

We have 4 operating miniature trains in our Childrens department.

The Golden Boot Engine Shed

We love our trains at The Golden Boot, and so do the children who come to our shop.
We have four model engines which are fully operational and are triggered with a 10p coin.

Smokey Joe	Santa Fe
Heidi	Puffy

The Golden Boot train adventure

Childrens story
Why not print it out and read it to your child?

The Golden Boot on a Munchin Express

Once upon a time there was a shoe maker, called Fred. He had his own shoe shop in Maidstone and he was a very very busy man because at the time there were no big shoe factories that could make shoes for everyone.

Soon people from all over the place had heard about his shop and came from a long way to buy his famous shoes.

They spent hours and hours walking around Maidstone but they couldn’t find the way to the shop. It was on a small street, far away from the train station.

Fred had been so busy making shoes for everybody in Maidstone. He was exhausted! Fred needed a holiday. Fred told his workers how to run the shop and asked them to prepare his personal carriage. He decided he wanted to go to the Alps in Switzerland.

In the Alps, Fred met a group of gnomes and told them about his shop. He explained to them the problem that people couldn’t find it!

The gnomes wanted to help Fred and offered to make a giant boot of solid gold, that would sit high above the shop and shine and sparkle in the sunlight so that people will immediately see where the shop is.

The gnomes went into the deepest mines under the mountains to get the gold for the boot. They made it six foot tall, and very very heavy.

Fred thanked the gnomes very much, and was ready to go back to England, but his horses didn’t have the strength to pull the carriage with the giant golden boot in it.

Fred went back to see the gnomes and they had an idea for him. The gnomes asked the munchkins who sat in the Swiss banks counting golden coins, if they would allow Fred to use the Munchkin Express to get the golden boot back to England.

The munchkins wanted Fred to pay for sending the boot to England but he offered to make shoes for them as they walked around the bank barefoot. They had 7 toes on each foot and normal Swiss shoes didn’t fit them.

Fred had a swift ride back to England on the Munchkin Express. He unloaded the boot and filled the train up with shoes for the munchkins and it chuffed back to Switzerland.

Fred and his workers raised the golden boot high above the shoe shop and you can still see it shining from far away.

After that, everyone called Fred’s shoe shop “The Golden Boot” and he decided to rename it. Since then, The Golden Boot shoe shop has been open in Gabriels Hill in Maidstone. It is the oldest family shoe shop in England.