X-ray shoe fitting!
This advertisement we found in the 1930s Salisbury Hospital Carnival programme, says you can have your foot x-rayed to get your shoes fitted. This was actually common practice until late 1950s. A child would try on new shoes, place their foot in the X-ray machine and then parents or the shop keeper could view through a scope, at the top, to see if the toes had enough wiggle room!
Read more
- All about X-rays – photographs and items from our collection showing the development of this technology
- X-rays: the inside view – a look at some glass plates from our collection and how X-rays work
- X-ray cyanotype print – try an X-ray themed creative activity
